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SUMMARY:Same-sex desire in the Royal Navy during the Great War
DESCRIPTION:As part of Centre for Maritime Historical Studies seminar series Laura Rowe will be speaking on: \n‘Same-sex desire in the Royal Navy during the Great War’.  \nThe seminar will take place on 3 October 2018 in Amory Building\, Room B316\, at 4pm. There will also a glass of wine after the seminar to celebrate the launch of Laura’s new book. \nFor further details contact: J.Davey3@exeter.ac.uk
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/same-sex-desire-in-the-royal-navy-during-the-great-war/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180321T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180321T160000
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Marriage: Theoretical and Policy Challenges
DESCRIPTION:The “Rethinking Marriage: Theoretical and Policy Challenges” event being run jointly between the Gender Research Network and the FRS Network will be held in the afternoon on Wednesday 21st March. The confirmed speakers are:\n\nProfessor Brian Heaphy (Sociology\, Manchester\, speaking on his research around marriage and formalised partnerships).\nDr Zainab Navqi (Law\, Birmingham\, speaking on feminist theory and polyamory).\n\n\nProfessor Rosemary Auchmuty (Law\, Reading\, speaking on feminist theory\, sexuality\, law on marriage and Civil Partnerships).\nDr Susannah Cornwall (Theology and Religion\, Exeter\, speaking on the implications of intersex and transgender for theologies of marriage (which in England also has legal implications) and also on her recent work on theology and polyamory).\n\n \nThe exact format of the event is still TBC but will likely start with lunch at 13.30\, then a 15 minute presentation from each speaker at 2pm\, followed by Q &A and general discussion chaired by Professor Rebecca Probert.\n\nContact: C.P.Bishop@exeter.ac.uk
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/rethinking-marriage-theoretical-and-policy-challenges/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180228T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180228T150000
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SUMMARY:Heteronormativity in Practice: Marginalization and Inequity in the Law and Public Sector
DESCRIPTION:Gender Research Group\, University of Exeter – Inaugural Workshop\nBuilding upon the vast literature exploring the social construction of gender\,\nscholarship is increasingly highlighting heterosexuality as the coherent and privileged\nframe in legal and political venues. As a result\, homosexuality not only continues to\nbe marginalized as an identity in these spheres\, but the administration and delivery of\na host of policy sectors including the criminal justice system\, healthcare and education\nproliferate an inequitable approach. Work has thus far been undertaken to promote\ncritical reflection across service providers\, but this has yet to be fully articulated and\nadopted and the LGBT community remains a vulnerable and target population in this\nregard. \nTo what extent do these traditional norms and values continue to pervade legal\ndiscourse? Is it really a dominant theme in the courtroom? Do service providers and\nstreet level bureaucrats continue to sub-consciously acquiesce to such cultural codes?\nThe interdisciplinary ‘Gender Research Group’ at the University of Exeter wishes to\nbring together academics to explore these pertinent and timely questions in a one\nday workshop. The event will consist of two panels structured around the themes\nbelow; abstracts addressing the legal-political nexus\, in particular\, are welcomed: \n• Theme 1: Legal Discourse\nCustomary modes of understanding national and international law reflect\nheteronormative conventions and can have an exacting influence in the courtroom.\nResearch examining the language of the law and the administration of justice\nthrough such lenses is invited. \n• Theme 2: Public Sector Implementation\nIn addition to legal discourse\, the function of the public sector as implementation\nthese core statutory provisions can exasperate such narratives through the\ninterpretation of heteronormativity. Empirically this can result in difficulties of access\nand experiences of marginalization for the LGBT population. Papers examining\nthese trends are welcome. \nThe deadline for paper proposals is Monday 8th January 2018. Abstracts\nshould be no longer than 500 words\, and submitted to Sarah Cooper\n(S.G.L.Cooper@exeter.ac.uk).
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/heteronormativity-in-practice-marginalization-and-inequity-in-the-law-and-public-sector/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180215T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180215T173000
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SUMMARY:Rebellious Sound Archive Meets LGBT History Month
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 15th February 2018 – 3.30-5.30pm – Exeter Phoenix Cafe Bar. \nDreadnought 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. \nCome along\, say hello and be part of the conversation as it is a drop in session.   You will also be welcome to experience the listening booth’s stories of the Rebellious Sounds Archive.  It might be you also have a story of activism to contribute or stories about LGBTQ women involved in the women’s suffrage campaign.  So we would love to hear from you or to meet you on the day. \nThis event is free and supported by Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Exeter City Council’s City Grant Fund. \nThe Rebellious Sounds Archive will also be at Exeter Pride 2018. \nLesbian and Bisexual Women and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage \nA hundred years ago\, in February 1918\, some women won the right to vote in the UK. What role did lesbian and bisexual women play in the fight for suffrage? What contributions did they make to the women’s movement? What problems do we encounter when we try to tell their stories? \nIt is no longer a secret that a number of women involved in the early twentieth-century women’s movement had sexual and romantic relationships with other women. However\, the various and often conflicted ways in which these women responded to\, negotiated and shaped suffrage politics – individually and collaboratively – have largely remained obscure. Join us for an informal conversation to find out more about women like Ethel Smyth\, Christopher St. John and Radclyffe Hall\, three artists and writers who moved in the same social circles and were all\, to very different degrees\, involved in the campaign for women’s suffrage. What can their lives\, writings and politics tell us about the connections between LGBT and feminist histories and politics in the past and present?
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/rebellious-sound-archive-meets-lgbt-history-month/
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180119T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180119T170000
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CREATED:20180107T220237Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Exploring the history of modern sex advice
DESCRIPTION:This workshop\, run as a joint endeavour between the Sexual Knowledge Unit and Exeter’s Rethinking Sexology project\, will explore the history of sex advice in the modern world. It will feature papers from Dr Ben Mechen (UCL)\, Dr Caroline Rusterholz (Birkbeck)\, and Linnea Tillema (QMUL/Uppsala). \nPearson Teaching Room\, Building:One\, Streatham Campus \n  \n—————————————- \n  \nDr Caroline Rusterholz (Birkbeck) \nWomen Doctors and Sexual Disorders in England (1930s-1970s) \nThis presentation explores the expansion of birth control sessions in Family Planning Centres towards sexual advice thanks to women doctors in interwar England and onwards. In particular\, this presentation analyses the way through which women doctors set up advisory sessions on sexual disorders and the way they shaped this advice\, as well as their contribution to the medical understanding of f ‘frigidity’ and ‘vaginismus’. It examines female doctors’ contributions in sex and medical manuals\, scientific publications but also in sexual counselling sessions with their patients from the 1930s to the 1970s\, and the extent to which these contributions reflected or challenged broader conceptions about heterosexuality and gender norms that prevailed at that time. \n  \nDr Ben Mechen (UCL) \n‘The Sexiest Primate Alive’: Naturalizing Sexual Liberation in the Long 1970s \nFocusing on the best-selling work of the British scientists and writers Alex Comfort and Desmond Morris\, this paper analyses the popularisation of biological and ethological understandings of human sexual behaviour in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In books such as Morris’s The Naked Ape (1967) and Intimate Behaviour (1971) and Comfort’s manual The Joy of Sex (1972)\, the analysis of man at the evolutionary or species-level\, as well as insights gleaned from the study of other primates\, were used to radically extend the sphere of the sexually ‘natural’. \nMost fundamentally\, such a perspective suggested that man should not hive off sexual expression as somehow secret or shameful; rather\, as in other animals\, it should remain integral to both existence and social life in general. More specifically\, by demonstrating that most animal behaviour could be analysed in terms of its biological and social functions\, it looked to open up for wider acceptance a host of existing behaviours proscribed by the conventions of Western society\, including the channelling of naturally aggressive impulses through the “play” between couples of bondage and S/M\, and the development and expression of homosexual desires\, seen by Comfort as part of a common nature. \nYet\, as critics of ethology and social biology\, many of them drawn from a resurgent feminist movement\, immediately recognised\, such notions of man-as-animal – and man as sexual animal – did not just denaturalise the old codes of sexual restraint. They also\, in their place\, naturalised the liberal and “liberated” models of sexuality associated with the so-called Permissive Society – and implicitly rendered unnatural visions of women’s sexuality grounded not in the unquestioning embrace of “freedom” but instead the dismantling of patriarchy. \n  \nLinnea Tillema (QMUL/Uppsala) \nSensuous Women and Total Orgasms: Pleasure as a Project of Self Improvement in Sweden\, 1960–1980. \nIn Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s\, sexual reformers championed a variety of pedagogical programmes\, all aimed at improving the ability of the individual\, in particular women\, to experience more intense pleasure in heterosexual encounters. The programmes were all centred on body-oriented\, practical training\, and typically included exercises in touching\, breathing\, moving\, bodily awareness\, and other sensuous techniques. I argue that these programmes were part of a new construction of sexuality that gained ground in the late 1960s\, namely\, the idea that sexual reactions could be “learned” and sexual experiences “improved” if only the individual made a serious and conscious effort to change them. To become a “sensuous woman” or experience “total orgasm”\, participants were encouraged to engage in structured\, goal-oriented work aimed at transforming the sexual self and one’s ability to form authentic relationship to others. Drawing on sexual advice literature\, self-help books\, and other sources\, I discuss these reform programmes in relation to the problems they identified\, the goals they proposed\, and the work on the sexual self and on heterosexual relations they encouraged. In the 1960s and 1970s\, as Sweden became an international symbol of sexual liberation and progressive sexual education\, these programmes played an early\, yet important role in the configuration of late modern reform programmes more generally concerned with the individual\, and with individual self-optimisation. As such\, they contributed to the late modern conception of the individual as personally responsible for her or his wellbeing\, happiness\, and personal development\, more commonly associated with the neoliberal turn in the 1980s and 1990s. \n  \n 
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/workshop-exploring-the-history-of-modern-sex-advice/
LOCATION:Constantine Leventis Teaching Room\, Building:One\, University of Exeter\, 21 St German's Rd\, Exeter\, Devon\, EX4 6TG
CATEGORIES:Project Events,Talks
ORGANIZER;CN="Sexual Knowledge unit":MAILTO:sexualknowledge@exeter.ac.uk
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170701
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
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SUMMARY:Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference\, University of Exeter
DESCRIPTION:Ana Tomcic (Sexual Knowledge member) is co-organising the University of Exeter Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference. The programme includes the following that may be of interest to Sexual Knowledge members and others: \n  \n-Welcome and keynote by Dr Ina Linge\, Associate Research Fellow\, Rethinking Sexology project\, University of Exeter (and Sexual Knowledge member). \n-Reproduction\, Family Planning and Embryonic Research: Social and Ethical Perspectives \na) Ahmet Karakaya: “Bioethics through a Religious Lens: Exploring the Religious Discourses on Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Turkey” \nb) Katherine Jones: “Men Too: The Family Planning Association\, Masculinity and Contraception in Britain 1984-1985” \nc) Boglarka Kiss: “Ethical and Legal Questions in Cases of Maternal Brain Death during Pregnancy” \n-Rehabilitative Medicine: Masculinity\, Citizenship and the Politics of Rehabilitation \na) Chloe Trainor: “From ‘warped and crippled creatures’ to ‘healthy craftsmen and citizens’: Reappraising Holistic Healthcare at Chailey Heritage” \nb) Lauren Glanville: “Men Without Faces: Face Painting in World War I” \nc) Paul Ketley: “Conflicting Spaces: Masculinity and the Auxiliary Hospital in the Second World War” \n-Gender\, Sexuality and Censorship: Visibility\, State Intervention\, Law Reform \na) Katie Snow: “Malevolent Motherhood: Perverse Parenting and the Problem of Female Sexuality in 18th Century Britain” b) Aisling Shalvey: “Eugenics in the Irish Free State 1922-1939” \nc) Ross Brooks: “Towards Wolfenden: Biomedical Approaches to Homosexual Law Reform in Britain 1946-1954” \n-Lived Experiences of Disability\, Chronic Illness and Social Stigma: Social Science Perspectives \na) Salha Al Bloushi: “Omani Mothers’ Experiences of Caring for Children with Cerebral Palsy (CP): An Exploratory Qualitative Study” \nb) David Jackson Perry: “None of the Above: Sexuality\, Gender and a Thing Called Autism” \nc) Jacqueline Stevenson: “Participatory and Creative Methods to Explore Transformations of the Body Associated with HIV\, Ageing and Stigma” \n-The performance of “Professor Bernhardi” on the first evening of the conference (6pm\, Exeter Barnfield Theatre) also deals with the issue of women’s reproductive rights\, religion and medical ethics. The performance is free to attend. \nFor venues and the full conference programme see here.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/postgraduate-medical-humanities-conference-university-of-exeter/
LOCATION:University of Exeter\, Exeter\, EX4 4QH
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170601T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170601T180000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
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SUMMARY:Sexual Knowledge Cultures Seminar - Joy Dixon and Amber K. Regis
DESCRIPTION:Queen’s N Mini-Theatre\, 3-6 pm \nPlease 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. \nPlease join us for our seminar on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cultures of sexual knowledge. The papers will be of interest to staff and students working on sexuality and gender\, the history of science and medicine\, life writing\, reception studies and critical editing. \nThere will be tea\, coffee\, cake\, and wine! All welcome. \n3-4: Dr Amber K. Regis (English\, Sheffield) – “‘The editor has reason to believe…’: un/finishing the Memoirs of John Addington Symonds”.  \nAmber will be speaking on her new critical edition of John Addington Symonds’ memoirs.  \n4-4.30: Tea\, Coffee and Cake  \n4.30-5.30: Professor Joy Dixon (History\, British Columbia) – ‘”The Gift of Sex”: Sexology\, Social Purity\, and the Production of Normalcy”.  \nJoy is the author of Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England.  \n5.30-6.00: Wine Reception \nThis workshop is organised in conjunction with the Rethinking Sexology project.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/workshop-joy-dixon-and-amber-k-regis/
LOCATION:Digital Humanities Seminar Room\, The Queen's Dr\, Exeter\, EX4 4QH
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Talks
ORGANIZER;CN="Sexual Knowledge unit":MAILTO:sexualknowledge@exeter.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170526T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170526T170000
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SUMMARY:'Men of the World': Royal Historical Society / Ex-Historia symposium
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Room 3\, Queens Building \n \nAbstracts: \nThe Pursuit of the Rasik: Translating Masculinities in Early Modern South Asia\, Sonia Wigh\, University of Exeter.  \nThe 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 the basis for an elaborate discussion on physiognomy and masculinity. Hence\, the issue of men’s sexuality in the context of South Asian history\, in large part\, is directly linked to the problem of physiology and semen\, as distinct from a generalised symbolisation of power. This paper explores various ways to understand masculinity\, for instance\, it can be understood as ‘sexual power’\, which is contextually different from its representation in the classical indo-Persian medical texts where the focus is on holistic development of the body. This paper explores the association of masculinity with semen\, physiology\, and reproduction\, which is done by comparing medical and erotological literature produced in south Asia. \nAlternative Settings of British Masculinity\, 1689-1702\, Owen Brittan\, University of Cambridge \nThis paper examines multiple constructions of masculinity during the reign of William III (1689-1702)\, a period often overlooked by historians of masculinity. Scholarship on masculinity in early modern Britain has focused largely on the gender roles associated with the patriarchal household\, although recently historians have turned their attention to cultures of politeness and civility in the public sphere. However\, normative literature and autobiographical sources that illustrate how men dealt with and experienced the norms this literature portrayed demonstrate that masculinity in this period was more diverse than these prominent models allow. Exploring male attempts to negotiate the normative expectations of five primarily homosocial alternative spatial and institutional settings—the military\, public service\, commerce\, religion\, and the periphery—highlights numerous ways of establishing manhood. Analysing these settings on their own terms\, rather than solely in relation to a normative patriarchal model\, demonstrates the ambiguities of trying to situate all masculinities in relation to one dominant ‘hegemonic masculinity’. Moreover\, grounded upon men’s experience recorded in their own words in diaries\, journals\, and memoirs \, this analysis of negotiation demonstrates the variability of masculinity as an identity that is both subjective and socially contingent. Constructing such models of masculine identity answers the recent call of historians to make a partial retreat from the cultural turn and return to a socio-historical agenda that analyzes how different men related to broad cultural codes both individually and in groups and cohorts. \nOrgansied by Sexual Knowledge unit member Sonia Wigh.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/men-of-the-world-royal-historical-society-ex-historia-symposium/
LOCATION:University of Exeter\, Exeter\, EX4 4QH
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170513T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170513T180000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20170512T085238Z
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SUMMARY:Electric Spaces - Leaping Off the Page (Exeter Pride Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Electric Spaces – Leaping Off the Page \nA workshop for Exeter Pride 13th May 2017 \n“The desert appears before us. Go on. Imagine it.” \n \nExplore\, 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 on the ways in which literature compels us to imagine new connections\, desires and identities. Following her reading\, Natalie will be in conversation with Dr Jana Funke (University of Exeter) to discuss literature by lesbian\, bisexual and queer female authors: what role have writers like Virginia Woolf\, H.D.\, Radclyffe Hall\, Patricia Highsmith\, Jane Rule\, Jeanette Winterson or Sarah Waters played in shaping our histories\, identities and communities? In the end\, you will have an opportunity to ask questions and contribute to creating a communal LGBTQ literary timeline featuring the authors\, stories and character that have meant the most to you!
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/electric-spaces-leaping-off-the-page-exeter-pride-workshop/
LOCATION:Exeter Phoenix\, Bradninch Place\, Gandy Street\, Exeter\,  EX4 3LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Museum Events,Public Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170327T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170327T173000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20170322T193628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170322T195026Z
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SUMMARY:'Selfish Cinema': Guest Speaker Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham)
DESCRIPTION:CIFR/ English seminar series \n“Selfish Cinema: Questions of Gender and Control in Adaptations of Ayn Rand for the Screen”\, Professor Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham) \nDate and Time: Monday 27 March 2017\, 15:30-17:30 \nVenue: MR rooms\, University of Exeter \nMore details here. \nAbstract:  \nThis paper examines onscreen representations of the work and legacy of influential\, pro-capitalist writer and philosopher Ayn Rand\, infamous for her theory of selfishness as a virtue. It explores two films: King Vidor’s The Fountainhead (1949)\, based on Rand’s 1943 novel\, for which she was screen writer\, and Chris Menaul’s The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)\, an adaptation of Barbara Branden’s biography of Rand\, starring Helen Mirren. The Fountainhead tells the story of Rand’s ideal heroic man\, Howard Roark (Gary Cooper)\, an individualistic architect whose single-minded desire is to design and execute his vision of what a building should be: formally\, functionally\, and aesthetically. In her collaboration with Vidor\, Rand demanded – and obtained – a degree of control over the film that was almost unprecedented for a writer in Hollywood at the time\, made all the more extraordinary by the fact that she was a woman in a very male-dominated industry. In the film\, Roark functions as Rand’s onscreen representative and his literal\, architectural edifices convey in physical form the audacity of Rand’s philosophical one. The Passion of Ayn Rand\, by contrast\, paints an intimate portrait of Rand’s personal life and details the emotional control and manipulation she exerted over her husband\, lover\, friends and followers. In Menaul’s film\, stripped of a heroic (male) onscreen representative or alter ego\, the Randian character as a female selfish subject is rendered both vulnerable and monstrous in ways that I argue are specifically gendered. More broadly\, then\, the two filmic examples enable me to explore the gender politics firstly of film adaptation and biopic representation\, and secondly of the philosophy of selfishness.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/selfish-cinema-questions-of-gender-and-control-in-adaptations-of-ayn-rand-for-the-screen/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170301
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20170117T143523Z
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SUMMARY:Exeter LGBT History Festival 2017
DESCRIPTION:The City of Exeter is going to be an official hub for The National Festival of LGBT History for the first time in February 2017. Events across Exeter will be exploring the unique and diverse LGBT histories of the South West and beyond. \nOur official festival launch will take place on Saturday 11th February at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum. The Lord Mayor of Exeter will formally open the Festival\, and we will hear from a range of voices with distinctive insights into the lives of LGBTQ+ people in the South West\, including Dr Michael Halls\, director of Intercom Trust\, Cheryl Morgan\, co-chair of Outstories Bristol and director of The Diversity Trust\, Dr Alan Butler\, curator of Plymouth LGBT Archive\, and Natalie McGrath of Dreadnought South West\, who make theatre based on the experiences of women in history. \nThe main festival event will be a free\, one-day programme of talks on Sunday 12th February 2017 at Exeter Phoenix. We will hear from a wide range of speakers including academics\, historians\, campaigners\, authors\, curators and many more. They will present on many aspects of local and national LGBT history\, including: \n\nHow Exeter grassroots movements transformed life for LGBT people in the city\nWhether Oscar Wilde would have used Grindr!\nBristol’s very recent changing LGBT history\nChinese underground queer cinema\nTrans women in the Ancient world\nHomosexuality and the Royal Navy during World War I\n\nOur keynote speaker will be award-winning author and biographer Diana Souhami who will talk about her work on women’s and lesbian history\, focusing specifically on the British painter\, Gluck. \nAlongside our main festival programme\, we have many other exciting events: \n·      ‘Twilight People’ exhibition on gender identity and faith at Exeter Central Library and University of Exeter \n·      Film screening of GIRLS LOST and discussion at Exeter Phoenix \n·      Performance about LGBTQ+ life in 1980s London at The Bike Shed Theatre \nFor more information and the full programme please see: exeterlgbthistory.org.uk \nTwitter: https://twitter.com/LGBTHMExeter/ \nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LGBTHMExeter \nEmail: lgbthistory@exeter.ac.uk
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/exeter-lgbt-history-festival-2017/
CATEGORIES:Public Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170120T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170120T123000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20170118T113516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170118T113516Z
UID:957-1484910000-1484915400@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Sex and gender: culture\, biology and history - workshop with Helen King (OU)
DESCRIPTION:Sex and gender: culture\, biology and history.\nA workshop with Professor Helen King (OU)\nFriday 20th January\n11-12.30\, Amory 105 \nThe view that sex is fixed in biology while gender categories vary according to social and cultural factors still exists today\, but historical evidence suggests caution in making any such assumption. Current scientific work is finding ever more areas where women’s bodies and men’s bodies are very different; and some of this research is being disseminated in popular media\, e.g. http://www.everydayhealth.com/news/drugs-work-differently-woman-than-man/. But what are the implications of this increased emphasis on difference for women’s place in society? \nWhen we turn to history\, the 1923 Board of Education report http://www.educationengland.org.uk/documents/hadow1923/hadow1923.html argued that the (entirely normal) unstable levels of calcium\, and the (entirely normal) lower levels of haemoglobin in the blood of adolescent girls accounted for ‘the more emotional and high strung nature of the adolescent girl’ (p.119) and meant that they would ‘flag sooner’ (p.120) than boys\, thus using biological evidence to reinforce cultural views of women and the social practices of education. \nYou are invited to come to discuss this topic and to bring with you any texts or images from the historical period you study which could be relevant!
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/sex-and-gender-culture-biology-and-history-workshop-with-helen-king-ou/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161201T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161201T113000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20161125T121242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161125T121242Z
UID:940-1480588200-1480591800@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Is the AIDS crisis over? - World AIDS Day
DESCRIPTION:In recognition of World AIDS Day\, Dr João Florêncio will be delivering a talk entitled “Is the AIDS crisis over?” \nOver 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\, one could be forgiven for thinking the AIDS Crisis is over. However\, with treatment estimated to still only reach less than half of the people living with HIV worldwide\, numbers of new infections in Europe still rising and key populations still at much higher risk of contracting the virus\, the epidemic seems far from over and HIV-positive people still have to face stigma in their daily lives. With only 4 years left for the world to reach the global targets set out by UNAIDS for 2020\, this lecture will reflect on the history of the epidemic and on some of the challenges – medical\, social\, political\, and legal – that will need addressing if HIV is to become a thing of the past. \nDr João Florêncio is lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter and a LGBTQ+ and HIV activist. His interdisciplinary research navigates the intersections of visual culture\, performance studies\, queer theory and posthumanities to\, amongst other things\, investigate articulations of disease\, infection\, risk\, and non-normative sexual practices in performance and visual culture\, and the ways in which those bring notions of non-/in-/sub-humanity to bear on the production of the Self and its circulation in contemporary visual ecologies. \nFree but booking essential\, book here
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/is-the-aids-crisis-over-world-aids-day/
LOCATION:Constantine Leventis Teaching Room\, Building:One\, University of Exeter\, 21 St German's Rd\, Exeter\, Devon\, EX4 6TG
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Public Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161121T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161121T213000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20161124T175241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161124T175241Z
UID:935-1479758400-1479763800@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:‘Dangerous’ influences: in the archive with Radclyffe Hall - Being Human Festival
DESCRIPTION:What influences shape our sexuality? Can literature be a ‘dangerous’ influence? In 1928\, Radclyffe Hall’s lesbian novel ‘The Well of Loneliness’ was banned as ‘obscene’ and described as a ‘danger’ to youth. This event will feature a short performance written by playwright Natalie McGrath that draws on University of Exeter lecturer Dr Jana Funke’s work on this writer. Join us for an interactive event that will offer a unique opportunity to explore and debate topical questions about sexuality\, literary history\, identity and community. \nThis event is part of Being Human Festival and University of Exeter’s series Voices From the Edge\nEvent enquiries: j.funke@exeter.ac.uk
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/dangerous-influences-in-the-archive-with-radclyffe-hall-being-human-festival/
LOCATION:Exeter Phoenix\, Bradninch Place\, Gandy Street\, Exeter\,  EX4 3LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Public Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161008T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161008T170000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160926T204630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170218T152226Z
UID:917-1475937000-1475946000@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Beyond The Well of Loneliness: Reassessing Radclyffe Hall’s Place in LGBTQ History
DESCRIPTION:Listen to a recording of the talk here. \nRadclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928) is one of the most famous and widely read lesbian novels. It is also a deeply controversial book that has been celebrated for its defence of homosexual relationships and criticised for its bleak depiction of lesbian love. \nThis talk will draw on original archival research to take us beyond The Well of Loneliness and open up a new understanding of Radclyffe Hall’s writings and views on gender and sexuality. In particular\, it will reassess Hall’s engagement with sexological understandings of sexuality and gender identity\, including those articulated by John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis\, and reconsider her often misunderstood engagement with feminist politics and female sexuality. \nDr Jana Funke is a Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter. She has published numerous chapters and journal articles on the history of sexuality\, sexual science\, and modernist literature. Books include The World and Other Unpublished Works by Radclyffe Hall (2016)\, and the co-edited volumes Sex\, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture (2011) and Sculpture\, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature\, Culture and the Arts (forthcoming\, 2018). \nThis is the Third Annual John Addington Symonds Celebration event of the University of Bristol’s Institute of Greece\, Rome\, and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT).  Our thanks to them for sponsoring this event. Symonds was a Bristol-based writer\, art historian and pioneer of homosexual rights. \nThe talk will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting of OutStories Bristol (very brief!). \nEveryone is welcome to both the AGM and talk. Admission and refreshments are free but a small donation towards the running costs of OutStories Bristol would be appreciated. Please book on Eventbrite. \nSaturday 8th October 2016\, 2pm to 5pm\n\n\nThe Old Council Chamber\,  Wills Memorial Building\,  Queens Road\,  Bristol\,  BS8 1RJ\nMap \n\n\n2pm: coffee/drinks in Room 1.5 (just opposite the Old Council Chamber)\n2:30pm: AGM followed by talk by Jana Funke\n4.30pm/5pm drinks reception to celebrate the 176th birthday of John Addington Symonds. \n\nThe Old Council Chamber is on the first floor of the Wills Memorial Building – go up the main stairs and turn right. \nDisabled parking is on the left side of the building with a lift to the first floor. \nThis event is sponsored by the University of Bristol Institute of Greece\, Rome\, and the Classical Tradition.\nFind out more about the IGRCT on their website; you can also find them on Facebook and Twitter.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/beyond-the-well-of-loneliness-reassessing-radclyffe-halls-place-in-lgbtq-history/
LOCATION:The Old Council Chamber\, Wills Memorial Building\, Bristol\, Select a State:\, BS8 1RJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Public Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160723T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160723T130000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160708T152917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T152917Z
UID:878-1469268000-1469278800@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Sex in Six Objects workshop - Freud\, Homosexuality & Women
DESCRIPTION:You might have heard of ‘Freudian slips’\, ‘penis envy’ and the ‘Oedipus complex’\, but what did Sigmund Freud\, the founder of psychoanalysis\, really think about gender and sexuality? Did he believe that we are born with a specific gender identity or sexuality? What did he think about bisexuality\, homosexuality and trans identity? How did he treat his patients and what did they make of him? Do his ideas still matter today? \nThis workshop will take place in the Freud Museum in London\, the house in which Freud lived with his family. Participants will get to spend time in his office\, see his desk and the famous couch\, and have a chance to engage with the objects he collected. \nThis is a free event for young people aged 16-25 of all gender and sexual identities who are interested in exploring questions about gender and sexuality\, especially from a historical perspective. \nThe workshop will be facilitated by a group of academics from the Universities of Cambridge and Exeter*\, but the discussion will be guided by you. No background knowledge is required. The academic facilitators have extensive experience working with young people (including young people who identify as LGBTQ+) and will aim to create a safe and inclusive environment. The workshop will focus on group discussion\, but you will not be required to participate in the discussion if you don’t want to do so. \nPeople who’ve been part of these workshops before\, tell us that they found the workshops “welcoming”\, “lively” and “fun” and enjoyed the “free and open exploration of sex through time”. \nThe event is free\, but please register in advance here. \n  \n*Dr Ina Linge and Dr Marie Kolkenbrock (Cambridge)\, and from the Rethinking Sexology project\, Dr Jana Funke and Dr Jen Grove. \nPart of Sex in Six Objects\, a series of workshops for young people investigating the history of sexuality in six objects\, in collaboration with the Rethinking Sexology project and the Sex and History project at the University of Exeter.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/sex-in-six-objects-workshop-freud-homosexuality-women/
LOCATION:Freud Museum\, 20 Maresfield Gardens\, Hampstead\, London\, NW3 5SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Museum Events,Public Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160614T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160614T170000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160528T230431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160528T230431Z
UID:838-1465912800-1465923600@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Transgender history workshop with Ann Heilmann (Cardiff)
DESCRIPTION:Transgender: Cultural and historical developments and the “case” of James Miranda Barry\nAnn Heilmann (Cardiff)\n \nThis event is part of the Emergenc(i)es Festival\, Bristol.  \nAbstract: This workshop considers the contemporary interest in transgender issues in relation to historical developments. It will explore how have perceptions and understandings of gender\, sex and sexuality developed; how have they differed over time and across different cultures? Is it important or helpful to distinguish between gender and sex? \nThe second half of the workshop will outline the history of the ‘discovery’ of transgender. An overview of 19th and early 20th-century sexology will lead to consideration of two historical transgender personalities\, the 18th-century Chevalier D’Eon and the 19th-century James MirandaBarry. The talk will provide a more detailed account of Barry. A prominent medical and humanitarian reformer of the early to mid-19th century\, Barry was an army surgeon who\, as Inspector General\, attained the highest rank in the medical branch of the British military\, and one of the first doctors in the world to conduct a successful Caesarian section. After his death in 1865 it was claimed that he had been a woman. (Evidence of his female birth identity was discovered in the 1980s.) The talk will review the way in which Barry has been constructed in biographies\, novels and drama. \nBio: Ann Heilmann is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University. She teaches\, and has published widely on\, Victorian and turn-of-the-century feminism\, contemporary neo-Victorianism\, and gender and women’s writing from the Victorian to the 21st century period. She is currently working on a book on the topic on which she is running the workshop\, on the 19th-century transgender figure James Miranda Barry and Barry’s representation in Victorian and neo-Victorian biographies\, biofictions and biodrama. (For further information see Ann’s staff page).
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/transgender-history-workshop-with-ann-heilmann-cardiff/
LOCATION:Trinity Centre\, Trinity Road\, Bristol\, BS2 0NW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Public Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160610T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160610T170000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160214T182503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160214T182514Z
UID:758-1465572600-1465578000@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Guest Speaker: Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham)
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Downing\, Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham\, will talk to us on ‘How Do I Love Me? Let Me Count the Ways…. On Female Narcissism\, a Problem in the Psy Sciences’. All welcome. Full abstract and speaker biography below. \nPart of the Centre for Medical History seminar series at University of Exeter. \n  \n  \n  \nAbstract \nThroughout the history of the psy sciences\, there has been very little theorisation of\, or published clinical data on\, female manifestations of excessive selfishness\, self-regard\, or self-absorption — i.e. those traits that are pathologised in medical discourse as “narcissism”. Accounts that do exist are often characterised by contradictions\, paradoxes and traces of gender bias. In the foundational texts of psychoanalysis\, for example\, we have Freud’s formulation of the re-routing of “inappropriate” primary female auto-eroticism into a more “properly feminine” secondary narcissism via motherhood and the pride a woman takes in her children. In the American psychiatric tradition\, it is notable that there is a lower incidence rate of female patients diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)\, characterised by grandiosity and an egoistic lack of empathy. Where instances of female NPD are discussed in the literature\, it is usually in the context of the deleterious effects of female narcissism on the nurturing of children (echoing Freud’s preoccupation with adult women as mothers rather than as selves). Throughout examples that cross national\, linguistic\, and historical boundaries\, psy discourses appear to refuse to recognise exaggerated manifestations of female self-regard. My contention in this paper is that the shortage of scholarly consideration of narcissism in women is a facet of a larger cultural phenomenon in which women’s relationship with the whole concept of self is imagined differently from that of men\, and is problematised. The material in this paper is part of a book project I am undertaking which considers the cultural\, political\, philosophical\, and psychological meanings of female selfishness in the modern period. \nLisa Downing – Biography  \nLisa is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham\, UK. She is the author of numerous books\, articles\, and chapters on modern critical theory; sexuality and gender studies; and the history of psychiatry\, criminology\, and sexology. Authored books include: Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Legenda\, 2003)\, The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (Cambridge University Press\, 2008)\, The Subject of Murder: Gender\, Exceptionality\, and the Modern Killer (University of Chicago Press\, 2013)\, and Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money’s Diagnostic Concepts (co-authored with Iain Morland and Nikki Sullivan\, University of Chicago Press\, 2015). She is currently editing a volume entitled After Foucault for Cambridge University Press\, and writing a monograph about female selfishness. \n 
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/758/
LOCATION:Room 128 Amory Building\, Rennes Dr\, Exeter\, EX4 4RJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Public Events,Talks
ORGANIZER;CN="Centre for Medical History":MAILTO:c.e.keyte@exeter.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160512T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160512T150000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160419T121323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160509T174203Z
UID:827-1463058000-1463065200@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Guest Speaker: Helen Wickstead (Kingston University London
DESCRIPTION:Helen Wickstead\, Senior Lecturer at Kingston University London in Museum and Gallery Studies and Heritage\, will talk to us on ‘”The Prehistoric Phallus: A History of Archaeology and Sex”. All welcome. \nA joint seminar as part of the Centre for Medical History and Department of Archaeology seminar series at University of Exeter. \nAbstract: \nObjects thought to represent the erect penis have been found around the world\, from many different times and places\, including in the deep time of prehistory. They are known as phalli\, and have been related to a symbolic category – the phallus. Over the last four hundred years antiquarians and archaeologists constructed concepts of the phallus that were to become central to ideas of masculinity\, mentality and material culture in modern times. The phallus disseminated theories of ancient society and sex across wider fields including comparative religion\, psychoanalysis\, medical science\, sexology and sexual politics. \nThis paper emerges from Wellcome Trust supported research which will produce the first publication exploring the modern reception of prehistoric phalli from the British Isles: studying how these ancient artefacts have been made meaningful for modern rather than prehistoric people. The paper draws on my research in archives of archaeological excavations\, scholarly societies and museums. It will focus on a selection of prehistoric objects (and modern forgeries) showing how they have been interpreted and reinterpreted as part of the historical development of sexual identities and symbolic categories in modern times. My research reveals the centrality of phallic theories to nineteenth century studies of Mankind\, probing the history of men-only anthropological societies\, and the part phallic knowledge and pornography played in engendering scholarly authority. It uncovers the nineteenth century obsession with Phallic Worship and its connection to ideas of megalithic architecture\, primitive sexuality\, religion\, and racial science. I conclude with an examination of recent discoveries of prehistoric phalli\, asking how prehistory contributes to discourses surrounding sex and sexuality in archaeologies increasingly mediated by digital technologies. \n  \nSpeaker Bionote: \nDr Helen Wickstead’s research explores the relationships between modernity and prehistory. Her publications include archaeologies of twentieth century concrete used to display and restore prehistoric heritage sites\, histories of archaeological aerial photography\, and analyses of archaeological drawing and mapping technologies. She is the Convenor of a research network – art+archaeology – which works with international contemporary artists to\ngenerate opportunities for arts-based research in archaeology. \nHelen is Director of archaeological excavations at a nationally important complex of prehistoric monuments near Damerham\, Hampshire. Her PhD thesis (published as a monograph in 2008) used digital mapping of archaeological remains to examine theories of property in prehistoric societies. Helen has a long standing interest in how the ancient world is visualized today\, and in how new ways of seeing created modern understandings of prehistory.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/guest-speaker-helen-wickstead-kingston-university-london/
LOCATION:Marchant Syndicate Room A\, Building:One\, Streatham Campus\, University of Exeter\, Exeter\, EX4 4QR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Talks
ORGANIZER;CN="Centre for Medical History":MAILTO:c.e.keyte@exeter.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160505T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160505T163000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160330T091405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T171831Z
UID:816-1462460400-1462465800@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Sex in Six Objects workshop - the Roman “penis pot”
DESCRIPTION:A free workshop for young people aged 16-25 looking at an intriguing Roman “penis pot” plus a selection of similar artefacts from the past\, and how objects like these have helped people in the modern world to think about sexuality. \nLead by Drs Jana Funke and Jen Grove of University of Exeter and Imogen Gunn\, curator at the Museum of Archaeology Anthropology (MAA)\, Cambridge. \nThis event is organised jointly by the Rethinking Sexology project and the Sex and History project at the University of Exeter. \nPart of Sex in Six Objects\, a series of workshops for young people investigating the history of sexuality in six objects. \nFor more on the pot and the workshop see these Mail Online and Cambridge News articles. \nFor booking and more events in this series visit the project website. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/sex-in-six-objects-the-romanpenis-pot/
LOCATION:Museum of Archaeology Anthropology\, Downing Street\, Cambridge\, CB2 3DZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Museum Events,Public Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160310T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160310T143000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20151216T125815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160216T200118Z
UID:144-1457613000-1457620200@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Guest Speaker: Mary Robson (Durham University)
DESCRIPTION:Mary Robson\, creative facilitator in arts in health & education on Wellcome Trust-funded project Hearing the Voice (Durham University) will speak to us on ‘Inside and also Independent: The Role of a Creative Facilitator in Interdisciplinary Research Projects’. All welcome. Full abstract and speaker biography below. \nPart of the Centre for Medical History seminar series at University of Exeter \n  \nAbstract  \nIt is often assumed that the Principal Investigator and/or other senior members of an interdisciplinary research project will take sole responsibility for organising and chairing research meetings and for ensuring positive group dynamics. When planning the Hearing the Voice research project\, the directors felt that the project as a whole could benefit from the expertise of someone specialised in creative approaches to facilitation; someone independent who could take responsibility for convening  research meetings and building the wider community of the project in ways which would harness the creative potential inherent to interdisciplinary working. Thus the role of the Creative Facilitator was planned. \n\nMary explains how her role has developed and diversified over the course of this project and others\, and suggests how it might be possibly be replicated. \n\nMary Robson – Biography  \nMary trained as a theatre designer and now works as a creative facilitator and social pedagogue – she works with people to make things. She is the Associate for Arts in Health and Education at the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University and is Creative Facilitator on two Wellcome Trust–funded research projects at Durham University – Hearing the Voice and The Life of Breath. Her pioneering role there is to build the community of the researchers\, with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinarity and transferable methodology. Mary is director of Roots and Wings\, an influential arts-in-health project currently based in inner city Bradford. Their work focuses on the social and emotional development of children through longitudinal arts-based projects that put children in the driving seat of cultural change. Mary was awarded a NESTA Fellowship and has received a Royal Society of Public Health award for ‘innovative and outstanding contributions to arts and health’. She is an invited member of the Ethics Board for CUIDAR \, a European-wide project aiming to enhance the resilience of children\, young people and urban societies to disasters and enable disaster responders to meet children and young people’s needs more effectively.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/guest-speaker-mary-robson-durham-university/
LOCATION:TBC
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Public Events,Talks
ORGANIZER;CN="Centre for Medical History":MAILTO:c.e.keyte@exeter.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160308T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160308T200000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160225T172220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160225T172220Z
UID:808-1457460000-1457467200@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Sex and Sexuality debate: International Women's Day event
DESCRIPTION:Dr Jen Grove joins the The Side Room for a debate about sex and sexuality for International Women’s Day at The Petrie Museum of Egyptology. \nMore details and booking.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/sex-and-sexuality-debate-international-womens-day-event/
LOCATION:The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology\, University College London\,  Malet Place\, London\, WC1E 6BT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Museum Events,Public Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160229T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160229T203000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160117T184413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160214T160243Z
UID:485-1456768800-1456777800@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Screen Talk: The Danish Girl - LGBTQ+ History Month Special Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion before a screening of The Danish Girl (2015)\, the story of Lili Elbe (1882-1931) a trans woman living in early 20th century Denmark. \nOur project director Dr Jana Funke will discuss the role of sexual science in developing ideas about transgender identities in the 1920s and 1930s. \nWendy Benstead\, costumier of stage and screen\, will discuss her role in making costumes for The Danish Girl and depicting gender in historical film and theatre. \nThe talk will begin at 6.00pm. \nBuy tickets on The Picture House website. \nOrganised with Screen Talks at University of Exeter. \n  \nPart of LGBTQ+ History Month.  \nSee more events we are involved with.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/screen-talk-the-danish-girl/
LOCATION:Exeter Picturehouse\, Bartholomew Street West\, Exeter\, EX4 3AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:LGBT History Month 2016,Public Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160226T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160226T193000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160207T100257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160210T133113Z
UID:733-1456511400-1456515000@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:The Sex and History Project: talking sexuality\, gender and identity with objects from the past - LGBTQ+ Soc event for LGBT History Month
DESCRIPTION:Our unit director Dr Jen Grove will be discussing Sex and History\, a community and outreach project which uses historical artefacts to get people of all ages – and especially young people – talking more easily about issues around sex\, gender and relationships today. What material can help us to safely discuss LGBTQ+ in the classroom\, the museum and elsewhere? See the full abstract below. \nOrganised by Exeter LGBTQ+ Soc at University of Exeter. \nFree but please register your attendance on the Facebook event or by emailing lgbt@ex.ac.uk \n  \nPart of LGBT History Month. \n\nSee more events we are involved with. \n  \n\nAbstract \nSex and History is a long-running public engagement and community project at the University of Exeter which uses artefacts from past cultures to get people of all ages – and especially young people – talking more easily about issues to do with sex and gender. The project has worked with museums\, colleges\, schools and youth groups to bring get young people engaging with historical objects from ancient Greece to 19th century Japan as a way of thinking through contemporary issues that matter to them. Activities have included film production and teaching packs for Sex and Relationships Education in school. While the discussions inspired by the objects have been wide-ranging\, we would like to further develop our resources which encourage all participants to think about sexual and gender identity and diversity. \nThis interactive workshop will ask the audience to discuss and give feedback on which objects from the past might be used in discussing LGBTQ+ identities with young people. Are certain objects more suitable for certain settings – in the classroom\, in the museum etc.? What issues are there in using objects from different cultures and time periods which may have different definitions of sexual behaviour and relationships from our own? What sort of role models of LGBTQ+ people can we find in historical objects? Do we need to see positive images from history in order to consider the sort of society we would like to see now? Or can the absence of sexual and gender diversity in museums and collections be useful for getting people to think about heteronormativity and what it means today? \n 
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/sex-and-history-talking-sexuality-and-gender-with-objects-from-the-past/
LOCATION:University of Exeter\, Exeter\, EX4 4QH
CATEGORIES:Free Events,LGBT History Month 2016,Public Events,Talks
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Exeter LGBTQ+ Society":MAILTO:lgbt@ex.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160217T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160217T203000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160209T101925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160216T111604Z
UID:741-1455733800-1455741000@sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Introduction\, Film Screening and Discussion: Fighting for Sexual Rights in the Early Twentieth Century: Magnus Hirschfeld\, Sexual Science and Anders als die Andern (1919)
DESCRIPTION:Special film screening of Anders als die Andern (1919) with introduction and discussion. \nReleased in 1919\, Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] 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 in love with one of his protégés. The film was co-written by German-Jewish sexual scientist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935)\, who also makes a brief appearance in the film. Hirschfeld was one of the most important early sexual scientists and founder of the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin. He is also remembered as a pioneering activist who advocated for gay\, lesbian\, trans and intersex rights throughout his life. \nOur project director Dr Jana Funke will introduce the film and discuss Hirschfeld’s work as a sexual scientist and as a sexual rights activist. \nAnders als die Andern is a silent film\, accompanied by a musical score\, and will be shown with English inter titles. \nOrganised by Exeter LGBTQ+ Soc \nFree but please register your attendance on the Facebook event or by emailing lgbt@ex.ac.uk \n  \nPart of LGBTQ+ History Month. \nSee more events we are involved with.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/introduction-film-screening-and-discussion-fighting-for-sexual-rights-in-the-early-twentieth-century-magnus-hirschfeld-sexual-science-and-anders-als-die-andern-1919/
LOCATION:University of Exeter\, Exeter\, EX4 4QH
CATEGORIES:Free Events,LGBT History Month 2016,Public Events,Talks
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Exeter LGBTQ+ Society":MAILTO:lgbt@ex.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160209T171500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160209T190000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160113T130300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160207T100812Z
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SUMMARY:IHR History of Sexuality Seminar: Ina Linge (University of Cambridge) & Tommy Dickinson (University of Manchester)
DESCRIPTION:Life writings and sexual sciences: writing the queer self in early 20th-century Germany and Austria\, Ina Linge (University of Cambridge) \n‘Curing Queers’. Mental Nurses and their Patients\, 1935-1974\, Tommy Dickinson (University of Manchester) \nPart of The History of Sexuality seminar at the Institute of Historical Research. \nThe seminar series is convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. All seminars are open to all and there is no need to register in advance. If you have any questions about the seminar please contact Craig Griffiths at: c.griffiths@qmul.ac.uk \nSee the website for more details. \nFollow the seminar series on Twitter @ihr_sexuality \n  \nAbstracts: \nLife writings and sexual sciences: writing the queer self in early 20th-century Germany and AustriaIna Linge (University of Cambridge) \nThis paper will explore the crucial yet largely overlooked literary dimensions of sexological and psychoanalytic life writings from the first half of the twentieth century. Bringing to bear gender and queer theory to illuminate the intersection between literature and scientific discourses\, it will show that queer subjects actively mobilize medico-scientific discourses in order to sustain a livable bodily and gendered identity. As such\, life writings in fact offer a unique insight into the (im)possibilities for those under duress to give an adequate account of themselves. \n‘Curing Queers’. Mental Nurses and their Patients\, 1935-1974\nTommy Dickinson (University of Manchester) \nDrawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen\, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories\, archival and news media sources\, this paper examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive “treatment” for homosexuality and transvestism\, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them. It examines why the majority of the nurses followed orders in administering the treatment-in spite of the zero success-rate in “straightening out” queer men-but also why a small number surreptitiously defied their superiors by engaging in fascinating subversive behaviours.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/institute-of-historical-research-history-of-sexuality-seminar-ina-linge-university-of-cambridge-tommy-dickinson-university-of-manchester/
LOCATION:Room SH246\, 2nd floor\, South block\, Senate House\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,LGBT History Month 2016,Public Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160206T114000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160206T121000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160131T184045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160207T100817Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond The Well of Loneliness: Radclyffe Hall in the Archive - LGBTQ+ History Month Special Event
DESCRIPTION:Our 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\, \nFree event\, drop in. More details here. \n  \nPart of LGBTQ+ History Month.  \n\nSee more LGBTQ+ History Month events we are involved with.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/beyond-the-well-of-loneliness-radclyffe-hall-in-the-archive-lgbtq-history-month-special-event/
LOCATION:Victoria and Albert Museum\, Cromwell Rd\, London\, SW7 2RL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,LGBT History Month 2016,Museum Events,Public Events,Talks
ORGANIZER;CN="V&A's LGBTQ Working Group":MAILTO:LGBTQ@vam.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160119T171500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160119T191500
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160112T135112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160112T135112Z
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SUMMARY:IHR History of Sexuality Seminar: Ivan Crozier (University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Culturally 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) \nPart of The History of Sexuality seminar at the Institute of Historical Research. \nThe seminar series is convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. All seminars are open to all and there is no need to register in advance. If you have any questions about the seminar please contact Craig Griffiths at: c.griffiths@qmul.ac.uk \nSee the website for more details. \nFollow the seminar series on Twitter @ihr_sexuality \nSeminar Abstract: \nFor the first part of the twentieth century\, sadomasochism was an object well within the control of sexology and psychiatry. Because they were allied to psychiatry\, sexologists paid particular attention to the sex lives of individuals who enjoyed pain or humiliation; because they were sympathetic to biology\, they looked to studies of the natural world to ground their universal theories of the sexual impulse. And as the names Sadism and Masochism suggest\, sexologists also drew on literary traditions that contributed to the construction of ideas about the eroticisation of pain. \nThis paper looks at another important part of this sexological construction of sadism and masochism – the use of historical and anthropological sources as evidence for the universalism of these sexual categories.  It focuses on Havelock Ellis’s work\, Love and Pain (1903; 2nd ed. 1913). While it is still important to situate this text in relation to the field of other sexological and psychiatric writings derived from case histories of individual’s sexual practices\, and in relation to the natural historical understanding of sexualised violence as a part of animal mating behaviours that was used to ‘naturalise’ these sexual tastes\, there is a lot of non-psychiatric and non-biological source material in this book that Ellis drew upon in order to construct his understanding of algophilia. By examining Ellis’s adaptation of historical and anthropological sources into sexological observation when he was faced with lack of sexual evidence about the kinds of people his works were producing\, I seek to rethink how sexological knowledge is constructed by understanding how non-sexological sources are rearticulated into the sexological field.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/institute-of-historical-research-history-of-sexuality-seminar-ivan-crozier-university-of-sydney/
LOCATION:Room SH246\, 2nd floor\, South block\, Senate House\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Public Events,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151119T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20151119T150000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160117T102823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160131T182010Z
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SUMMARY:Guest Speaker: Ina Linge (University of Cambridge)
DESCRIPTION:Listen to a recording of the paper here. \n‘Something different’: Sexology and the Department Store\, Ina Linge  (University of Cambridge). \nAll welcome. \nPart of the Centre for Medical History seminar series at University of Exeter \nAbstract: \nDori and Nora\, the protagonists of The Diary of a Male Bride (1907) and A Man’s Maiden Years (1907)\, respectively\, leave their small-town relatives behind to become shop girls in the German metropolis. They appear to be members of a generation of ordinary working class girls populating the department store –except that\, in the eyes of their contemporaries\, they are not ordinary\, because they are not girls. This talk traces the textual representation of the queer body in early twentieth-century sexological life writings as it becomes an object of display\, both during sexological examination and as queer commodity on the shop floor.
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/guest-speaker-ina-linge-university-of-cambridge/
LOCATION:XFi Conference Room 1\, University of Exeter\, Exeter\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Public Events,Talks
ORGANIZER;CN="Centre for Medical History":MAILTO:c.e.keyte@exeter.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151008T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20151008T150000
DTSTAMP:20260726T024137
CREATED:20160117T134916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160131T182019Z
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SUMMARY:Guest Speaker: Chiara Beccalossi (University of Lincoln)
DESCRIPTION:Sexology\, Hormones and Medical Experiments in the ‘Latin Atlantic World’: Local Power and International Networks\, c. 1926-1950\, Dr Chiara Beccalossi. \nPart of the Centre for Medical History seminar series at University of Exeter \nAll welcome. \nAbstract: \nIn 1926\, Nicola Pende\, one of the most important Italian fascist scientists\, founded the Institute of Biotypology\, a eugenics organisation. This Institute originally aimed to screen the entire Italian population and to study its ethnic composition and state of health. However\, it soon came to serve other purposes\, including a modern management of sexuality. It promoted sex education and offered advice relating to marriage. It also evaluated the racial unions that would produce ‘fit’ offspring in the long term and treated infertility and impotence with hormone therapies. It attempted to cure ‘sexual deviancies’ such as homosexuality through opotherapy (the treatment of disease with extracts made from animal endocrine organs)\, phototherapy (the stimulation and inhibition of internal gland secretions through x-rays)\, treatments requiring climate and dietary changes\, and psychotherapy. In the ‘Latin world’\, similar institutes were founded in the interwar period\, such as the Argentinian Institute of Biotypology\, the National Institute for Identification in Brazil\, and the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology in Spain. This paper explores the practices of medical doctors from southern Europe and Latin America who employed hormone treatments to normalise ‘sexual deviants’ such as homosexuals in the interwar period. It shows how\, in the ‘Latin Atlantic world’\, hormones became central to understanding and modifying sexual behaviour and how sexology\, eugenics and endocrinology were intertwined. \n 
URL:https://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/guest-speaker-chiara-beccalossi-university-of-lincoln/
LOCATION:Northcote House Council Chamber\, University of Exeter\, Exeter\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Public Events,Talks
ORGANIZER;CN="Centre for Medical History":MAILTO:c.e.keyte@exeter.ac.uk
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