Ross Brooks (Oxford Brookes) joined us in December 2018 to give a paper titled ‘Unresolved Conflicts about Sex: Julian Huxley and the Progress of Sexology in Britain, 1916-1930.’
Author Archives: Jennifer Ellen Grove
Sexology and Development conference Oct 2018 Final Programme:
Final Programme:
Thursday 4 October
2.30pm: Welcome
2.45-5.00pm, Panel 1: Global Perspectives and the Emergence of Sexology (Chair: Chiara Beccalossi)
Kate Fisher and Jana Funke (University of Exeter, UK), ‘Global Developments: Tracing the Entangled Histories of Sexual Science and Anthropology.’
Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University, US), ‘The Development of American Sexual Science and Sexology.’
Secil Yilmaz (Cornell University, US), ‘Syphilis, Love, and Making of Modern Sexology in the Late Ottoman Empire.’
Coffee Break
6.30pm: Trans Perspectives: A Public Discussion on Gender, Art and Politics with Fox Fisher, Owl (Ugla Stefanía Kristjóttir Jónsdóttir) and Diego Marchante.
8.00pm: Transitional States exhibition opening (& drinks)
Friday 5 October
10am-12.15pm, Panel 2: Sex Hormones, the Chemical Body and the Development of Sexology (Chair: Ryan Jones)
Howard Chiang (University of California, Davis, US) ‘Transcultural Sexology and the Crystallization of an Epistemic Nexus: China, 1920s-1940s.’
Chiara Beccalossi (University of Lincoln, UK), ‘Sexology and Hormone Treatments in the Global North and the Global South’.
Rodrigo R. Lima (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil), ‘Endocrinology, Boundaries and the Performance of Organotherapies in Brazil: Biotypology and Homosexual Treatment (1931-1938).’
Lunch: 12.30-2pm: Lola&lo, Carrer de Valldonzella, 52
2-4:15pm, Panel 3: Interdisciplinary Connections (Chair: Ina Linge)
Jen Grove (University of Exeter, UK), ‘”Ancient Codes” and “Biologic Norms”: Kinsey’s Uses of Cultural Development and Classical Archaeology.’
Cynthia Kraus (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), ‘At the Crossroads of Physical Anthropology, Sexology and Psychoanalysis: A Transdisciplinary Journey from Palestine to Switzerland (c. 1949-1980s).’
Rovel Sequiera (University of Pennsylvania, US), ‘Waiting to Confess? Genre, Sexuality, and Selfhood in Colonial India.’
Coffee Break
4.45-7pm, Panel 4: Civilization and Moral Development (Chair: Jana Funke)
Marie Walin (Universities of Toulouse Jean Jaures and Clermont-Ferrand, France), ‘European and Catholic: the Spanish Discourse about Sexuality as a Special Path in the “Process of Civilisation” (1850-1910).’
Susana Ferguson (Columbia University, US), “The Power Hidden in the Breasts of Youths:” Male Adolescent Sexuality and Anti-Colonial Time.’
Ryan Jones (State University of New York at Geneseo, US), ‘“Marta Olmos, the Mexican ‘Christine:’ Sex-Reassignment, Global Sexology, and the Politics of National Development in 1950s Mexico.”
Dinner 8.30pm: Els Ocellets, Ronda Sant Pau, 55
Saturday 6 October
10.30am-12.00pm, Panel 5: Sexual Modernism in Germany and Beyond
(Chair: Cynthia Kraus)
Heike Bauer (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK), ‘From the ‘Ontogenetic Bisexuality’ of Embryos to ‘Dangerous Disturbances of the Sexual Drive’: Magnus Hirschfeld on Intersex.’
Douglas Pretsell (La Trobe University) ‘Transnational Translation of Sexual Modernism’
Lunch: 12.30-2pm, Lola&lo, Carrer de Valldonzella, 52
2-4:15pm, Panel 6: Modes, Sites, and Networks of Exchange (Chair: Sarah Jones)
Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds, UK),“Navigating ‘Latin’ Eugenics: The Case of Portugal, International Sexological Relations and the Criteria of ‘Racial’ Types (1900-1950).”
Kate Davison (University of Melbourne, Australia), ‘Homosexual Aversion Therapy and Cold War Geopolitics: Post-war Psychiatry between Czechoslovakia and Britain.’
Alain Giami (Université Paris-Saclay, France), ‘A History of the World Association for Sexual Health (1978-2017).’
Coffee Break
4.30-5.30pm Final Discussion
From EP Warren to Alfred Kinsey: Collecting Classical Erotica and Understanding Modern Sexuality in the First Half of the 20th century
Global Developments: Tracing the Entangled Histories of Sexual Science and Anthropology
In October 2018 our PIs Kate Fisher and Jana Funke gave the paper “Global Developments: Tracing the Entangled Histories of Sexual Science and Anthropology” at our project conference Sexology and Development: Exploring the Global History of the Sexual Sciences.
“Ancient Codes” and “Biologic Norms”: Kinsey’s Uses of Cultural Development Theories and Classical Archaeology
In October 2018 Jen Grove spoke on ‘”Ancient Codes” and “Biologic Norms”: Kinsey’s Uses of Cultural Development Theories and Classical Archaeology’ at our project conference Sexology and Development: Exploring the Global History of the Sexual Sciences.
Transformations: Co-Producing Knowledge about Gender Identity and Sexual Science
Jen Grove and Jana Funke presented at the Critically Queer conference, Bristol, September 2018.
Their paper was titled: “Transformations: Co-Producing Knowledge about Gender Identity and Sexual Science”.
‘Nearly Normal’: Queer Climacterics in the Scientific Works of G Stanley Hall and Marie Stopes
Our PhD student Kazuki Yamada presented at Exeter’s Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health Midlife Conversations conference, September 2018.
Kazuki presented on “‘Nearly Normal’: Queer Climacterics in the Scientific Works of G Stanley Hall and Marie Stopes”.
Sexologists as Collectors of Archaeological Erotica in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Jen Grove presented on “Sexologists as Collectors of Archaeological Erotica in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century” at the European Association of Archaeologists Annual Conference, Barcelona, in September 2018.
Sexology and Development: Exploring the Global History of the Sexual Sciences
This international conference in October 2018 was jointly organised by Rethinking Sexology’s Kate Fisher and Jana Funke, and Chiara Beccalossi as part of her Sexology, Hormones and Medical Experiments in the Latin Atlantic World project at the University of Lincoln. Both projects are funded by the Wellcome Trust.
New perspectives on sexual science (1890-1960)
The project delivered a special panel at the 32nd Irish Conference of Historians at University College Cork, April 2018. The theme of the conference was “Sex, sexuality & reproduction: historical perspectives”. The Rethinking Sexology team spoke on “New perspectives on sexual science (1890-1960)”.
