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Film Screening: A Deal with the Universe

Exeter Phoenix Bradninch Place, Gandy Street

A DEAL WITH THE UNIVERSE (CTBA) + SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING + DIRECTOR Q&A Dir. Jason Barker 2018, 90 mins, UK 7.30pm + Q&A Documentary A Deal With The Universe is filmmaker Jason Barker’s debut feature. Autobiographical and made entirely from personal archive and home video diaries, the film follows Jason’s incredible story of how he came to […]

Sex, Sexuality & Classical Reception seminar + book launch!

*PLEASE NOTE THE EVENT START TIME HAS BEEN CHANGED TO 15:30* This seminar brings together three early career researchers exploring the history of sex and sexuality and the reception of the ancient world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Followed by a launch of Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the […]

Sex and Nature: 1800-2018

Exeter , United Kingdom

Sex and Nature: 1800-2018 This conference is co-organised by Dr Ina Linge, Associate Research Fellow with the Rethinking Sexology project, and Dr Sarah Bezan, Newton International Fellow at The University of Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre (ShARC). The CFP for this conference can be found here. Keynote speakers: Greta LaFleur, Yale University, USA Astrida Neimanis, University […]

Talk at two-day workshop NARRATIVE SCIENCE IN TECHNO-ENVIRONMENTS: INTEGRATING HISTORY OF SCIENCE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY AND HUMANITIES

LSE London

On 18 & 19 July 2019 Dr Ina Linge will contribute a paper to the inter-disciplinary workshop NARRATIVE SCIENCE IN TECHNO-ENVIRONMENTS: INTEGRATING HISTORY OF SCIENCE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY AND HUMANITIES at the LSE. Her paper is entitled "Narrating Human-animal Sexual Nature in 1920s Popular Science Books". You can find out more about the workshop and […]

Rethinking Normativity: the Normal in the History of Medicine

Rethinking Normativity: the Normal in the History of Medicine Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens When: 24 October, 3.30-5.30 Where: Building One, Pearson Teaching Room, University of Exeter The Centre for Medical History is delighted to welcome Professors Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens of the University of Queensland to Exeter to speak on “Rethinking Normativity: the Normal in the History of Medicine” All welcome!

Trans History & Heritage Seminar

Dr Emma Vickers, ‘Dry Your Eyes, Princess: oral testimony, photography and co-creation’ This presentation will explore ‘Dry Your Eyes, Princess’, a project that used oral testimony and photography to narrate the experiences of trans veterans of the British Armed Forces. It discusses the historical background of the underpinning research and will reflect on some of […]

Sexuality, Gender and Visual Cultures in 20th-century Germany

Abstracts: Sex Sells! Wolfgang Gurlitt, Erotic Print Culture and Women Artists in the Weimar Republic Camilla Smith This talk explores erotic material commissioned by the art dealer and publisher Wolfgang Gurlitt (1888–1965). Between 1919 and 1920, Gurlitt published a hand-printed series of erotic volumes Der Venuswagen (The Chariot of Venus), which straddled the areas of […]