Past Events

Sexology and Development

The Sexology and Development: Exploring the Global History of the Sexual Sciences conference, held in Barcelona in October 2018 has resulted in a Special Issue of the History of the Human Sciences, edited by Chiara Beccalossi, Kate Fisher and Jana Funke.

It includes an Introduction, ‘Sexology and development’  written by Chiara Beccalossi, Kate Fisher and Jana Funke, and an article by Kate Fisher and Jana Funke, ‘All the progressive forms of life are built up on the attraction of sex’: Development and the social function of the sexual instinct in late 19th- and early 20th-century Western European sexology’.

 

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.

 

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.

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 

Provisional Programme for Global Perspective: Dialogues between West and East on History of Medicines

Provisional Programme for Global Perspective: Dialogues between West and East on History of Medicines

The First Day 9th September – Guanghua West Tower, Room 701 9:00-17:30

Opening: 9:00-9:15
Chair: Gao Xi History Department, Fudan University
Welcoming Speech: Jin Guangyao, Director of the International Center for the Study of Chinese Civilization

1) A Global Perspective: History of Medicine in East and West (I), 9:15-10:15
Chair: Angela Ki-che Leung (Hong Kong Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong)
Zhang Daqing (Institute of Medicine and Humanities, Peking University)
“The backwards-and-forwards in the History of Medicine Sturdy ”
Jiang Zhushan (History Department, National Dong Hwa University)
“Global Perspective on the Research of Medical History”

10:15-10:40 Tea and Coffee Break & Group Photo

2) A Global Perspective: History of Medicine in East and West (II), 10:40-12:00
Chair: Bridie Andrews (Department of History, Bentley University)
Yu Xinzhong (Key Research Institute of Social History of China, Nankai University)
“Microhistory and the Historical Study on Medicine in China”
Liu Bing (Institute of Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University)
“The Contribution of the History of Ethnic Minorities Medicine for the Medical History Writing – The Example of Mongolian Medicine”
Iris Borowy (College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University)
“Global Health in Relation to Sustainable Development”

12:00-14:00 Lunch Time

3) Disease and Health: Different Cognition between West and East, 14:00-15:30
Chair: Zhang Daqing (Institute of Medicine and Humanities, Peking University)
Angela Ki-che Leung (Hong Kong Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, The
University of Hong Kong)
“Strategies of a Biomedical Hospital in 19th-century Canton: Materiality Advertized in
Qizheng lueshu《奇症略述》 (Brief Account of Extraordinary Clinical Patterns)”
Gaoxi (History Department, Fudan University)
“New Medicine and State Medicine: Two orientations in the Construction of Modern
Chinese Medicine ”

Zheng Hong (Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine)
“Disease: its conception and Chinese Medicine History writing ”

15:30-15:45 Tea and Coffee Break

4) Use of the Same Drugs by Different Medical Traditions around the World, 15:45-17:00

Chair: Chen Ming (Research Center of Eastern Literature, Peking University)
Wang Zhenguo (Institute of Literature in Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional
Chinese Medicine)
“Explanations of Bencao: Traditional Theories and Modern Transformations on Chinese
Pharmaceutics”
Zhu Jianping (Institute of Literature in Chinese Medical History, China Academy of Chinese
Medical Sciences)
“When the TCM interacts with the WM: a comparative study of the uses of Artemisia
carvifolia and Artemisinin”
Hu Yingchong (Shanghai Literature Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine)
“From Traditional Bencao to Modern Chinese Drugs – Transformations in the Discipline of
Chinese Pharmaceutics (1911-1963)”
The Second Day, 3rd September – Guanghua West Tower, Room 701 9:00-17:30
5) Acupuncture in China and West, the Past and Present, 9:00-10:30
Chair: Kate Fisher (Department of History University of Exeter)
Bridie Andrews (Department of History, Bentley University)
“Acupuncture: An Essential Tool for Investigating Pain”
David Luesink (Department of History, University of Pittsburgh)
“How Chinese Medicine Became Anatomical”
Zhang Shujian (Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine)
“New or Old: The Shift of Ms. Zhu-Lian and New Acupuncture in 1950’s China”
Zhang Xiaoli (School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, Anhui Medical University)
“The medical activities of missionary hospitals in modern China and its influence on the
spread of Western Medicine – A case study of several church hospitals in the Anhui area of
the Republic of China”

10:30-10:45 Tea and Coffee Break

6) Sexology, Gender and History of Medicine, 10:45-12:00
Chair: Chen Yan (Department of History, Fudan University)
Kate Fisher (Department of History, University of Exeter)
“Sex, Science and Ethnography: Magnus Hirschfeld in China”
Leon Rocha (Department of History, University of Liverpool)
“Sexology in the Tabloids: The Case of Zhou Yueran (1885-1962)”
Guo Qi (Department of History, University of Exeter)
“New Knowledge, Better Knowledge? Translating Homosexuality into Chinese?”
Min Fanxiang (Department of History, Nanjing University)
“On the Therapy of “Making An Embryo to Grow Up Into A Boy: A Discussion from the
perspective of Socio-Cultural History of Medicine”

12:00-14:00 Lunch Time

7) The East & West Pharmaceutical Culture 14:00-15:30
Chair: Wang Zhenguo (Institute of Literature in Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine)
Chen Ming (Research Center of Eastern Literature, Peking University)
“Sini: the writing and use of Chinese Materia Medica in the middle age Islamic texts”
Dong Shaoxin (National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University)
“Medical Cultural Exchanges Between Beijing and St. Petersburg before 18th Century”
Sean Hsiang-lin Lei (Academia Sinica)
“Housewives as Kitchen Pharmacists: Dr. Chuang Shu Chih, Gendered Identity, and Traditional Medicine in East Asia”
Zhang Zhongmin (Department of History, Fudan University)
“Liang Qichao and his Critics to Erotic Books”

15:30-15:45 Tea and Coffee Break

8) Rethinking of the Medical History Writing 15:45-17:00
Chair: Zhang Yongan (College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University)
Wataru Iijima (School of Humanities, Aoyama Gakuin University)
“A Global Perspectieve: Rethinking of the medical history writing”

Roundtable

Podcast: Ina Linge (University of Cambridge) ‘Sexology and the Department Store’

 

Ina Linge (University of Cambridge) discusses her research on the performance of queer identities in German sexological and psychoanalytic life writings.

Abstract:

Dori and Nora, the protagonists of The Diary of a Male Bride (1907) and A Man’s Maiden Years (1907), respectively, leave their small-town relatives behind to become shop girls in the German metropolis. They appear to be members of a generation of ordinary working class girls populating the department store – except that, in the eyes of their contemporaries, they are not ordinary, because they are not girls. This talk traces the textual representation of the queer body in early twentieth-century sexological life writings as it becomes an object of display, both during sexological examination and as queer commodity on the shop floor.

Watch a video of Ina talking to us about more of her research here.

This event was part of the Centre for Medical History seminar series, University of Exeter.

Video: Ina Linge (University of Cambridge) on queer identities in sexological life writings

Ina Linge, PhD candidate at University of Cambridge visited us in November 2015. Here she talks to Dr Jen Grove about her research including the performance of queer identities in German sexological and psychoanalytic life writings; the links between the classification of animals in zoology and human sexual behaviour in German psychoanalysis and sexual science; and the plans for the Museum of Passion project in Berlin.

Listen to a recording of Ina’s paper “‘Something different’: Sexology and the Department Store”.

Watch other videos we have made on the history of sexual science.