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.

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 […]

A Fantastic Woman: Film screening and Q&A with Gonzalo Maza (Grand Challenges event)

Alumni Lecture Theatre, University of Exeter

Screening 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. […]

Literature, Education and the Sciences of the Mind in Britain and America, 1850-1950

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 […]

Medicine Meets the Sexed Body: Discovering, Diagnosing, Producing and Shaping

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, […]

Critically Queer conference, Bristol

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 […]

Sexology and Development: Exploring the Global History of the Sexual Sciences

Sexology and Development: Exploring the Global History of the Sexual Sciences Barcelona, Spain 4th to 6th October 2018 This international conference is jointly organised by Rethinking Sexology and Chiara Beccalossi’s Sexology, Hormones and Medical Experiments in the Latin Atlantic World project at the University of Lincoln.  Both projects are funded by the Wellcome Trust. The conference seeks to investigate the global history of the sexual sciences by focusing on the concept of development. For more details […]

Sex, Sexuality & Classical Reception (Early Career event)

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

Montafoner Heimatmuseum Schruns Kirchpl. 15, Schruns, Austria

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 […]