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
Wellcome Collection gallery event – Photographs As Evidence
Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Rd, London, United KingdomRead write-ups of the workshops here. Our co-director Dr Jana Funke will be running workshops in The Institute of Sexology exhibition galleries at the Wellcome Collection, examining photographs from late 19th and early 20th century sexual science publications. Visitors can contribute their own portrait in collaboration with an illustrator. These images offer a different perspective on the way individual […]
Wellcome Collection Sexology Season Manchester: Sunday Salon
People's History Museum Left Bank, Manchester, United KingdomListen to a podcast of the event here. Our co-director Dr Jana Funke joins a discussion with Helen Mathers (Open University) on issues raised by the work of the early sexual scientists featured in The Institute of Sexology exhibition, in particular 19th century prostitution, the definitions of sex work and the victim narrative. Find more information and details of booking here. Part […]
Wellcome Collection Sexology Season – Sex in the Afternoon
Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, London, United KingdomListen to a podcast of the event here. Dr Jana Funke, our co-director, contributes to a discussion with four acclaimed writers - Malika Booker, Kei Miller, Warsan Shire and Rachel Mars - whose work illustrates how radically different sex is for different people and invites us to consider sexuality from different perspectives, sometimes confronting cultural and religious taboos. […]
Guest Speaker: Chiara Beccalossi (University of Lincoln)
Northcote House Council Chamber University of Exeter, Exeter, United KingdomSexology, Hormones and Medical Experiments in the ‘Latin Atlantic World’: Local Power and International Networks, c. 1926-1950, Dr Chiara Beccalossi. Part of the Centre for Medical History seminar series at University of Exeter All welcome. Abstract: In 1926, Nicola Pende, one of the most important Italian fascist scientists, founded the Institute of Biotypology, a eugenics organisation. This […]
Guest Speaker: Ina Linge (University of Cambridge)
XFi Conference Room 1 University of Exeter, Exeter, United KingdomListen to a recording of the paper here. ‘Something different’: Sexology and the Department Store, Ina Linge (University of Cambridge). All welcome. Part of the Centre for Medical History seminar series at University of Exeter Abstract: Dori and Nora, the protagonists of The Diary of a Male Bride (1907) and A Man’s Maiden Years (1907), respectively, leave […]
Gender Identities in the Past and Present: Hatshepsut & Akhenaten – LGBTQ+ History Month Special Event
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology University College London, Malet Place, London, United KingdomGender Identities in the Past and Present: Hatshepsut & Akhenaten - LGBTQ+ History Month Special Event The Rethinking Sexology project and the Petrie Museum will be leading a discussion around gender identity focusing on depictions of the pharaohs Hatshepshut and Akhenaten in the ancient world and early twentieth-century attitudes to their allegedly ‘transgressive’ identities. We will also […]
IHR History of Sexuality Seminar: Ina Linge (University of Cambridge) & Tommy Dickinson (University of Manchester)
IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Senate House, London, United KingdomLife writings and sexual sciences: writing the queer self in early 20th-century Germany and Austria, Ina Linge (University of Cambridge) 'Curing Queers'. Mental Nurses and their Patients, 1935-1974, Tommy Dickinson (University of Manchester) Part of The History of Sexuality seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (co-organised by our director Dr Jana Funke). The seminar series is convened […]
Introduction, Film Screening and Discussion: Fighting for Sexual Rights in the Early Twentieth Century: Magnus Hirschfeld, Sexual Science and Anders als die Andern (1919)
LT1 Queens Building The Queen's Drive, Exeter, United KingdomSpecial film screening of Anders als die Andern (1919) with introduction and discussion. Released in 1919, Anders als die Andern is one of the first films in history to portray male homosexuality in a sympathetic light. It was directed by Richard Oswald (1880-1963) and tells the story of a homosexual musician who get blackmailed after falling […]
Screen Talk: The Danish Girl – LGBTQ+ History Month Special Event
Exeter Picturehouse Bartholomew Street West, Exeter, United KingdomJoin us for a discussion before a screening of The Danish Girl (2015), the story of Lili Elbe (1882-1931) a trans woman living in early 20th century Denmark. Our project director Dr Jana Funke will discuss the role of sexual science in developing ideas about transgender identities in the 1920s and 1930s. Wendy Benstead, costumier of stage and screen, will […]
Guest Speaker: Mary Robson (Durham University) – ‘Inside and also Independent’
TBCMary Robson, creative facilitator in arts in health & education on Wellcome Trust-funded project Hearing the Voice (Durham University) will speak to us on 'Inside and also Independent: The Role of a Creative Facilitator in Interdisciplinary Research Projects'. All welcome. Full abstract and speaker biography below. Part of the Centre for Medical History seminar series at University […]