Dr Jana Funke and Dr Ina Linge took visitors from the University of Exeter on a tour of the historical Institute of Sexology in Berlin, recreated using images and other sources from their research.
Author Archives: Ina Linge
The Blood-red Queen and the Professor: The Sexual Nature of Humans and Ants in Hanns Heinz Ewers’ Ameisen [Ants] (1925)
Dr Ina Linge presented a paper at the 2019 conference of the British Society of Literature and Science at Royal Holloway, University of London. You can find the conference programme here.
Beastly Butterflies: Sexual Nature in Sexology and Modern Dance
Dr Ina Linge gave a paper at the Beastly Modernism conference in Glasgow. This international conference discussed the animal turn in modernist studies. You can find out more about the conference here.
Narrating Human-animal Sexual Nature around 1920: Richard Goldschmidt, Magnus Hirschfeld and Hanns Heinz Ewers
Dr Ina Linge was invited to give a talk at the workshop ‘Narrative Science in Techno-environments: Integrating History of Science with Environmental History and Humanities’, a two-day interdisciplinary workshop that took place at the LSE over the 18th-19th of July 2019. You can find out more about the workshop here.
Podcast: Interview with Dr Astrida Neimanis, Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies, at the Sex and Nature conference (Exeter, 2019)
An interview with Dr Astrida Neimanis, Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies, in conversation with Dr Sarah Bezan
Astrida Neimanis discusses her book Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology, published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2017, and her keynote ‘Toxic Erotics and Bad Ecosex’, which she gave at the ‘Sex and Nature: 1800-2018’ conference in Exeter in June 2019. You can find out more about the Sex and Nature conference here.
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Podcast: Artist Q&A with Artist-in-residence Dr Amy Cutler at the Sex and Nature conference (Exeter, 2019)
Artist Q&A with Sex and Nature Artist-in-residence, Dr Amy Cutler, in conversation with Dr Sarah Bezan and Dr Ina Linge
This artist Q&A explores histories of zoö-curious sex discourse in semi-domesticated spaces, such as the beehive, the aquarium, and the television set. Cutler discusses nonhuman influences on her sound, film, and live performance work, from the sexual foibles of Victorian insect writing (with the hive itself seen as a female super-organism, with an insatiable mouth and an insatiable oviduct), to the heteronormativity of the birds nest in Disney’s nature documentaries about “mother Nature” and in the use of the “birds and the bees” idiom by the Eugenics movement. Discussing her work with live cinema for film festivals and with radio for the BBC, Cutler also explores the collapsing scales of “love” as a matter of both public and private work. From animal betrothals to cross-species femme fatales, how can we artistically intervene in the public stories of nature and the ways they police our private lives? Can we, after Negarestani, find ways of becoming-vermin in these pedagogies – opening up plot holes and desires, rather than the “wholesome plots” which cover them up?
This Q&A was part of the Sex and Nature conference. You can find our more about the conference here.
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Podcast: Interview with Associate Professor Greta LaFleur at the Sex and Nature conference (Exeter, 2019)
An interview with Associate Professor Greta LaFleur, in conversation with Dr Ina Linge
Greta LaFleur discusses her new book The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2018, and her keynote ‘Sex, Outside’, which she gave at the Sex and Nature: 1800-2018 conference in Exeter in June 2019. You can find out more about the Sex and Nature conference here.
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Plenary Panel: Pitching the Discipline: Where is German in 2018?
In August 2018 Dr Ina Linge contributed to a plenary panel and discussion on the topic ‘Pitching the Discipline: Where is German in 2018?’ at the Association for German Studies annual conference at Bangor University in Wales. Ina talked about the research and public engagement events organised by the Rethinking Sexology project.
Work-in-progress presentation: Rethinking the Human: Sexology, Zoology, Literature and Visual Art After Darwin (c.1890-1930)
In July 2018 Dr Ina Linge presented a work-in-progress paper at the Animal and Society Summer Institute at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, titled ‘Rethinking the Human: Sexology, Zoology, Literature and Visual Art After Darwin (c.1890-1930)’.
The purpose of the Summer Institute was to bring together Early Careers Scholars working in the area of animal studies. More information about the Summer Institute can be found here: https://www.animalsandsociety.org/tag/summer-institute/
Image: Ina holding one of the non-human animal participants of the Summer Institute.
Queering Butterflies: On the relationship between sexology and animal genetics, ca. 1920
In April 2018 Dr Ina Linge presented a paper at the British Animal Studies Network conference at Strathclyde (Glasgow), titled ‘Queering Butterflies: On the relationship between sexology and animal genetics, ca. 1920’
The paper discussed the reception of Richard Goldschmidt’s experiments with intersex butterflies by German sexologists in the 1920s to show the significance of animal experiments for (human) sexual politics.
