Here we list events organised or involving members of the Sexual Knowledge unit members.
Free Events
Wellcome Collection gallery event – Photographs As Evidence
Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Rd, London, United KingdomRead write-ups of the workshops here. Our co-director Dr Jana Funke will be running workshops in The Institute of Sexology exhibition galleries at the Wellcome Collection, examining photographs from late 19th and early 20th century sexual science publications. Visitors can contribute their own portrait in collaboration with an illustrator. These images offer a different perspective on the way individual […]
Wellcome Collection gallery event – Photographs As Evidence
Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Rd, London, United KingdomRead write-ups of the workshops here. Our co-director Dr Jana Funke will be running workshops in The Institute of Sexology exhibition galleries at the Wellcome Collection, examining photographs from late 19th and early 20th century sexual science publications. Visitors can contribute their own portrait in collaboration with an illustrator. These images offer a different perspective on the way individual […]
Wellcome Collection gallery event – Photographs As Evidence
Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Rd, London, United KingdomRead write-ups of the workshops here. Our co-director Dr Jana Funke will be running workshops in The Institute of Sexology exhibition galleries at the Wellcome Collection, examining photographs from late 19th and early 20th century sexual science publications. Visitors can contribute their own portrait in collaboration with an illustrator. These images offer a different perspective on the way individual […]
Guest Speaker: Chiara Beccalossi (University of Lincoln)
Northcote House Council Chamber University of Exeter, Exeter, United KingdomSexology, Hormones and Medical Experiments in the ‘Latin Atlantic World’: Local Power and International Networks, c. 1926-1950, Dr Chiara Beccalossi. Part of the Centre for Medical History seminar series at University of Exeter All welcome. Abstract: In 1926, Nicola Pende, one of the most important Italian fascist scientists, founded the Institute of Biotypology, a eugenics organisation. This […]
Guest Speaker: Ina Linge (University of Cambridge)
XFi Conference Room 1 University of Exeter, Exeter, United KingdomListen to a recording of the paper here. ‘Something different’: Sexology and the Department Store, Ina Linge (University of Cambridge). All welcome. Part of the Centre for Medical History seminar series at University of Exeter Abstract: Dori and Nora, the protagonists of The Diary of a Male Bride (1907) and A Man’s Maiden Years (1907), respectively, leave […]
IHR History of Sexuality Seminar: Ivan Crozier (University of Sydney)
Room SH246, 2nd floor, South block Senate House, London, United KingdomCulturally Situating Sadism and Masochism in Havelock Ellis's Love and Pain: the uses of history and anthropology in the construction of sexual kinds, Ivan Crozier (University of Sydney) Part of The History of Sexuality seminar at the Institute of Historical Research. The seminar series is convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. All seminars are open to […]
Gender Identities in the Past and Present: Hatshepsut & Akhenaten – LGBTQ+ History Month Special Event
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology University College London, Malet Place, London, United KingdomGender Identities in the Past and Present: Hatshepsut & Akhenaten – LGBTQ+ History Month Special Event The Rethinking Sexology project and the Petrie Museum will be leading a discussion around gender identity focusing on depictions of the pharaohs Hatshepshut and Akhenaten in the ancient world and early twentieth-century attitudes to their allegedly ‘transgressive’ identities. We will also […]
Beyond The Well of Loneliness: Radclyffe Hall in the Archive – LGBTQ+ History Month Special Event
Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Rd, London, United KingdomOur unit director Dr Jana Funke joins a day of talks as part of the LGBT History National Festival. She will talk about Radclyffe Hall in the Archive. See the full programme of the event here, Free event, drop in. More details here. Part of LGBTQ+ History Month. See more LGBTQ+ History Month events we are involved with.
IHR History of Sexuality Seminar: Ina Linge (University of Cambridge) & Tommy Dickinson (University of Manchester)
Room SH246, 2nd floor, South block Senate House, London, United KingdomLife writings and sexual sciences: writing the queer self in early 20th-century Germany and Austria, Ina Linge (University of Cambridge) 'Curing Queers'. Mental Nurses and their Patients, 1935-1974, Tommy Dickinson (University of Manchester) Part of The History of Sexuality seminar at the Institute of Historical Research. The seminar series is convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. All […]
Introduction, Film Screening and Discussion: Fighting for Sexual Rights in the Early Twentieth Century: Magnus Hirschfeld, Sexual Science and Anders als die Andern (1919)
University of Exeter ExeterSpecial film screening of Anders als die Andern (1919) with introduction and discussion. Released in 1919, Anders als die Andern is one of the first films in history to portray male homosexuality in a sympathetic light. It was directed by Richard Oswald (1880-1963) and tells the story of a homosexual musician who get blackmailed after falling […]