Here we list events organised by our project as well as other events we hope will interest you. If you would like to advertise your event relating to the history of sexual science here please contact us.
Project Events
Sex in Six Objects workshop – the Roman “penis pot”
Museum of Archaeology Anthropology Downing Street, CambridgeA free workshop for young people aged 16-25 looking at an intriguing Roman “penis pot” plus a selection of similar artefacts from the past, and how objects like these have helped people in the modern world to think about sexuality. Lead by Drs Jana Funke and Jen Grove of University of Exeter and Imogen Gunn, curator at the Museum of Archaeology Anthropology (MAA), Cambridge. This event […]
Guest Speaker: Helen Wickstead (Kingston University London)
Marchant Syndicate Room A Building:One, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter, United KingdomHelen Wickstead, Senior Lecturer at Kingston University London in Museum and Gallery Studies and Heritage, will talk to us on ‘"The Prehistoric Phallus: A History of Archaeology and Sex". All welcome. A joint seminar as part of the Centre for Medical History and Department of Archaeology seminar series at University of Exeter. Abstract: Objects thought to represent the erect […]
Guest Speaker: Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham)
Room 128 Amory Building Rennes Dr, Exeter, United KingdomLisa Downing, Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham, will talk to us on 'How Do I Love Me? Let Me Count the Ways…. On Female Narcissism, a Problem in the Psy Sciences'. All welcome. Full abstract and speaker biography below. Part of the Centre for Medical History seminar series at University of Exeter. […]
Sex in Six Objects workshop – Freud, Homosexuality & Women
Freud Museum 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London, United KingdomYou might have heard of ‘Freudian slips’, ‘penis envy’ and the ‘Oedipus complex’, but what did Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, really think about gender and sexuality? Did he believe that we are born with a specific gender identity or sexuality? What did he think about bisexuality, homosexuality and trans identity? How did he […]
Interdisciplinary Histories Conference
Mercure Southgate Hotel Southernhay East, Exeter, Devon, United KingdomThis conference is part of the Wellcome Trust-funded Rethinking Sexology project at the University of Exeter. The first Rethinking Sexology conference examines dynamics of interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration from a historical perspective. It asks what can be gained by exploring moments, sites and traditions of dialogue across disciplines, fields of knowledge and forms of expertise in […]
Rethinking Sexology project launch!
The Devon and Exeter Institution 7 Cathedral Close, ExeterFriends and colleagues joined us drinks reception to celebrate the launch of our Wellcome Trust-funded project, Rethinking Sexology. The evening took place at the The Devon and Exeter Institution which occupies historic premises at the heart of Exeter in Cathedral Close (see below for address). We celebrated the completion of our full project team and look forward to forthcoming […]
Sexual Knowledge Cultures Seminar – Joy Dixon and Amber K. Regis
Queens N mini-theatre The Queen's Dr, ExeterQueen's N Mini-Theatre, 3-6 pm Please note that the lecture theatre is in the new Digital Humanities Lab. It can be accessed through the DH Lab Main Entrance in the Car Park at the back of the Queen’s Building. Please join us for our seminar on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cultures of sexual knowledge. The papers […]
Talk: ‘Scientific Respectability and Popular Disseminations of Sex Research in Interwar German Film’ (Dr Katie Sutton, Australian National University)
Digital Humanities Seminar Room, Queens Building, The Queen's Dr, Exeter. EX4 4QH. Abstract: In the socially progressive and politically tumultuous interwar period, researchers in the German-speaking lands were world leaders in the study of sex. Increasingly, sexologists such as Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin and Eugen Steinach in Vienna were turning not only to photography as […]
Workshop: Exploring the history of modern sex advice
Building:One 21 St German's Rd, United KingdomThis workshop, run as a joint endeavour between the Rethinking Sexology project and Exeter's Sexual Knowledge Unit, will explore the history of sex advice in the modern world. It will feature papers from Dr Ben Mechen (UCL), Dr Caroline Rusterholz (Birkbeck), and Linnea Tillema (QMUL/Uppsala). Pearson Teaching Room, Building:One, Streatham Campus ---------------------------------------- Dr Caroline […]
Workshop: ‘Biological Discourses: Science, Sexuality, and the Novel around 1900’
Digital Humanities Seminar Room, Queens Building, The Queen’s Dr, Exeter. EX4 4QH. This multi-speaker, interdisciplinary workshop will feature the following papers: Dr Charlotte Woodford (Cambridge): 'Sexology and women's sexual emancipation: Lou Andreas-Salome's theories of female sexuality and her novella 'Deviations' (1898) as literary case study' Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex (Cambridge): ‘Monism, Eugenics, and (the Limits of) […]