Here we list events organised or involving members of the Sexual Knowledge unit members.
Public 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 […]
Wellcome Collection Sexology Season Manchester: Sunday Salon
People's History Museum Left Bank, Manchester, United KingdomListen to a podcast of the event here. Our co-director Dr Jana Funke joins a discussion with Helen Mathers (Open University) on issues raised by the work of the early sexual scientists featured in The Institute of Sexology exhibition, in particular 19th century prostitution, the definitions of sex work and the victim narrative. Find more information and details of booking here. Part […]
Wellcome Collection Symposium on Sexual Desire
Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Rd, London, United KingdomOur co-director Professor Kate Fisher joins other academics, writers and curators to consider sexual desire, drawing upon history, psychology and neurophysiology. Part of the Institute of Sexology exhibition. See the event website for the programme, tickets and further details.
Wellcome Collection Sexology Season – Sex in the Afternoon
Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, London, United KingdomListen to a podcast of the event here. Dr Jana Funke, our co-director, contributes to a discussion with four acclaimed writers - Malika Booker, Kei Miller, Warsan Shire and Rachel Mars - whose work illustrates how radically different sex is for different people and invites us to consider sexuality from different perspectives, sometimes confronting cultural and religious taboos. […]