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.
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) […]
Expressing Sex: An Informal Workshop for Young People (16-25)
M Shed Princes Wharf, Wapping Rd, Bristol, bristol, United KingdomPlease note this is an informal drop in session, so come anytime between 2 and 4pm! Location: M Shed Studio Rooms Part of LGBT History Month Bristol, hosted by M Shed, organised by Outstories, Bristol How did people in the past express their sexuality and gender? What can a photograph from the nineteenth century, scientific […]
“You, Dear Doctor, Are My Only Rescue!” performance + talk
Exeter Phoenix Bradninch Place, Gandy StreetFree Event: “You, Dear Doctor, Are My Only Rescue!”, March 1st, Exeter Phoenix “You, Dear Doctor, Are My Only Rescue!”, March 1st, Exeter Phoenix Join us for a free event dedicated to the history of sexuality and sexual science in Poland. We'll start with a performance created by Agnieszka Kościańska and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, followed […]
Sexology and ideology in the age of institutionalization (1960-2000)
Centre interdisciplinaire d’étude des religions et de la laïcité (CIERL), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 17 avenue FD Roosevelt, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgique. Les langues du colloque sont le français et l’anglais. Il n’y a pas de traduction simultanée prévue. The languages of the conference are French and English. There is no simultaneous translation provided. PRESENTATION […]
Queer Modernism(s) II – Keynote Jana Funke
Our co-director Dr Jana Funke will be a keynote at Queer Modernism(s) II: Intersectional Identities, will be held on April 12th & 13th 2018 at the University of Oxford. Queer Modernism(s) II is an interdisciplinary, international conference exploring the place of queer identity in modernist art, literature and culture, with an emphasis on intersecting identities. […]
Sex, sexuality & reproduction: historical perspectives, 32nd Irish Conference of Historians
University College CorkThe 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 ExeterThis 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 […]
A Fantastic Woman: Film screening and Q&A with Gonzalo Maza (Grand Challenges event)
Alumni Lecture Theatre, University of ExeterScreening of the Oscar-winning film, A Fantastic Woman (Chile, 2017), followed by Q&A with its co-writer and co-director, Gonzalo Maza (PhD candidate in Film, University of Exeter) in conversation with Prof Sally Faulkner. This critically acclaimed film tells the story of a transgender woman coming to terms with the loss of her partner in a […]
FUTURESEX, University of Surrey
Our project director Jana Funke will be speaking at this conference at the University of Surrey. What are the futures of sex, gender and sexuality? How were futures imagined in the past? We seek to interrogate the shifting norms of sex, gender and sexuality, while questioning how research methodologies can properly attend to these shifts. […]