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. […]

17–18 July 2018 – University of Kent Keynote Speakers: Professor Helen Small, Pembroke College, University of Oxford Professor Priscilla Wald, Duke University This conference aims to stimulate a wide-ranging discussion about the interactions between British and American literature, education, and the sciences of the mind between 1850–1950. We welcome paper and panel proposals on any aspect […]

Panel convened by Sorcha Uí Chonnachtaigh and David Andrew Griffiths at this year’s European Association for the Study of Science and Technology conference. The CfP deadline is Feb 14th 2018. Any questions, please contact me and Sorcha (d.a.griffiths@surrey.ac.uk, s.ui.chonnachtaigh@keele.ac.uk ). EASST2018: MEETINGS - Making Science, Technology & Society Together, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK Medicine Meets the Sexed Body: Discovering, Diagnosing, […]

Jana Funke and Jen Grove will be presenting at the Critically Queer conference, a two-day event that will be held at the University of Bristol in September 2018. This conference is attempting to build connections between academics, community organisers, activists, artists, and individuals with a vested interest in what it means to be LGBTQIA+ in […]

3-5pm followed by drinks (venue tbc). All welcome!  The event is organised in conjunction with the Centre for Medical History, Exeter Classical Receptions Network, the National Classical Reception Studies Network, and the Sexual Knowledge unit. Speakers: Mara Gold (Oxford) : "Citizens of Lesbos: Sapphic Code and the Language of Lesbian Desire" Georgina Barker (Edinburgh/Exeter):  'Pigeons and Parrots, Sappho […]

Concepts of Sexual Health from the 18th to the 21st Centuries 2018 Annual Conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine - (Hi)stories of Sickness and Health 08.11.2018-10.11.2018 Schruns, Vorarlberg, Montafoner Heimatmuseum Various disciplines have addressed the topic of "sexuality" over the centuries. Whether medical experts, biologists, theologians, educational theorists, legal scholars or […]