Here we list events organised or involving members of the Sexual Knowledge unit members.
Free Events
Is the AIDS crisis over? – World AIDS Day
Constantine Leventis Teaching Room, Building:One University of Exeter, 21 St German's Rd, Exeter, DevonIn recognition of World AIDS Day, Dr João Florêncio will be delivering a talk entitled "Is the AIDS crisis over?" Over three decades after the first cases of what we came to know as AIDS were first identified in the US, and exactly 20 years since the development of drug combinations effective in managing HIV, […]
Occupy the Airwaves on International Women’s Day, 8 March
Dr Ina Linge (English) and Dr Jen Grove (Centre for Medical History) will be taking part in this event to celebrate International Women’s Day on Exeter’s Community Radio station, Phonic FM. Individuals and groups of women and girls, from Exeter and the surrounding area, will create, programme and produce exciting radio programmes which will be transmitted across […]
Electric Spaces – Leaping Off the Page (Exeter Pride Workshop)
Exeter Phoenix Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, United KingdomElectric Spaces - Leaping Off the Page A workshop for Exeter Pride 13th May 2017 "The desert appears before us. Go on. Imagine it." Explore, debate and celebrate literature by lesbian, bisexual and queer women in the past and present! Playwright and author Natalie McGrath (Dreadnought South West) will offer a reading of her piece "Electric Spaces', a gripping personal reflection […]
‘Men of the World’: Royal Historical Society / Ex-Historia symposium
University of Exeter ExeterMargaret Room 3, Queens Building Abstracts: The Pursuit of the Rasik: Translating Masculinities in Early Modern South Asia, Sonia Wigh, University of Exeter. The urge to classify and define seems to be an innate human quality. Erotological texts propound a four-fold classification based on a particular part of the male anatomy. This classification, then becomes […]
Sexual Knowledge Cultures Seminar – Joy Dixon and Amber K. Regis
Digital Humanities Seminar Room 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 network meet up
Senior Common Room Queens Building, Exeter, Devon, United KingdomPlease join us for an informal meet up over tea, coffee and cake next Tuesday 3rd October 3-4.30pm in the Senior Common Room, Queens Building. This is a chance to informally catch up about research and other activities going on across the university in the area of sex, sexuality and gender. We've had quite a number […]
Guest Speaker: Katie Sutton (Australian National University)
Digital Humanities Seminar Room The Queen's Dr, ExeterDigital Humanities Seminar Room 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. Dr Katie Sutton (Australian National University) will present on ‘Scientific Respectability and Popular Disseminations of Sex Research […]
Biological Discourses: Charlo tte Woodford (Cambridge), Godela Weiss-Sussex (Cambridge), Cyd Sturgess (Sheffield)
Digital Humanities Seminar Room The Queen's Dr, ExeterDigital Humanities Seminar Room 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. Seminar on "Biological Discourses: Science, Sexuality and the Novel around 1900" With presentations from: Dr Charlotte Woodford […]
Rebellious Sound Archive Meets LGBT History Month
Thursday 15th February 2018 – 3.30-5.30pm – Exeter Phoenix Cafe Bar. Dreadnought Co-Director Natalie McGrath and Dr Jana Funke from the Institute of Sexology (University of Exeter), will host the Rebellious Sounds Archive, whilst sharing Jana’s research of LGBTQ women from the women’s suffrage campaign at Exeter Phoenix. Come along, say hello and be part of the conversation as it […]
“You, Dear Doctor, Are My Only Rescue!” performance + talk
Exeter Phoenix Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, United KingdomFree 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 […]