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.
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 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 […]
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 KingdomQue(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 […]
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 […]
Sexual Knowledge Cultures Seminar – Philippa Levine
Reed Hall, Ibraham Ahmed Room 3-4:30pm, with a wine reception to follow. In conjunction with Exeter's Sexual Knowledge unit, Centre for Imperial and Global History and Global Engagement and Development we are delighted to welcome Professor Philippa Levine (University of Texas at Austin) to Exeter to speak on "Slavery and the Aesthetics of Abjection". There will be tea, coffee […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sexologies and theories of sexuality: Translation, appropriation, problematization, medicalization
American University of Paris, France , FranceSexologies and theories of sexuality: Translation, appropriation, problematization, medicalization The full text of the CFP is accessible at : http://calenda.org/409160 Objectives This two-day conference proposes to examine the history of conceptions of sexuality and of gender relations that have, explicitly or implicitly, been used in sexological “constructions” since the mid-19th century. The knowledge, theories and practices to which […]
IHR History of Sexuality Seminar: Katie Sutton (Australian National University)
IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Senate House, London, United Kingdom"Redefining “Normal” Child Sexuality: Encounters between Sexologists and Psychoanalysts at the fin de siècle" 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 by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. All seminars are open to all and there is no need […]