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.

Sexual Modernism, Women’s Writing and Sexual Science – Gendered Lives Research Seminar

"Lesbian Identities" The Gendered Lives Summer Research Seminar welcomes Jana Funke from Exeter and Sarah Parker from Loughborough and focuses upon lesbian identity in the late Victorian and early twentieth-century periods.  2-4 pm, Wednesday 3rd May 2017, MHL.0.07, Martin Hall, Loughborough University  Jana Funke (University of Exeter), ‘Sexual Modernism, Women’s Writing and Sexual Science: The Case of […]

Free

IHR History of Sexuality Seminar: Joy Dixon (University of British Columbia)

IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Senate House, London, United Kingdom

Que(e)rying Social Purity: Sexology, Theology, and Sexual Modernity Joy Dixon (University of British Columbia) Part of The History of Sexuality seminar at the Institute of Historical Research. The seminar series is convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. All seminars are open to all and there is no need to register in advance. If you have […]

Free

Sexual Knowledge Cultures Seminar – Joy Dixon and Amber K. Regis

Queens N mini-theatre The Queen's Dr, Exeter

Queen'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 […]

Dagmar Herzog on Critical Sexology in Germany and Teresa de Lauretis on Freud

Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich Rämistrasse 71, Zürich, Switzerland

"The Making of Sexuality: Entangled Histories of Regulation, Intelligibility and Subjectivation" - International Interdisciplinary Workshop Organised by Gender Studies, University of Zurich - Convenors: Prof. Dr. Bettina Dennerlein and Dr. Monika Gsell, M.A. Helena Rust Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich In current public debates, ideological fault lines are increasingly organized around issues […]

Free

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 Kingdom

This 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 […]

Free

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) […]

Sex, sexuality & reproduction: historical perspectives, 32nd Irish Conference of Historians

University College Cork

The 32nd Irish Conference of Historians will take place at University College Cork, Thursday 26-Saturday 28 April, 2018. The theme of the conference will be Sex, sexuality & reproduction: historical perspectives. The Rethinking Sexology team are organising a panel "New perspectives on sexual science (1890-1960)".  Panel abstract: The study of the history of sexology is […]

Workshop: China and Sexology

Digital Humanities seminar room 2 University of Exeter

This inter-disciplinary workshop will feature papers from Dr Leon Rocha (University of Liverpool), and Dr Ting Guo (University of Exeter). You can find the abstracts below. This seminar is hosted by the University of Exeter’s Centre for Medical History and the  Rethinking Sexology project, and is part of the Medical History and Humanities seminar series […]