Here we list events organised or involving members of the Sexual Knowledge unit members.
‘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 […]
A Night Celebrating Angela Carter On Screen
Exeter Phoenix Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, United KingdomA NIGHT CELEBRATING ANGELA CARTER ON SCREEN, FEATURING THE COMPANY OF WOLVES Sun 18 Jun 2017 | 7.30pm | £6 In collaboration with University of Exeter, Dr Anna Watz, Senior Lecturer at the University of Linköping, Sweden presents an evening celebrating the work of Angela Carter, novelist, poet, short story writer & one of the […]
Angela Carter and Surrealism – Anna Watz (Linköping University, Sweden)
Queens Building, LT.1 Queens Drive, ExeterDr Anna Watz, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Linköping University (Sweden) will be visiting Exeter, and during her visit will be giving a lecture on her wonderful book Angela Carter and Surrealism: 'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic' - published by Routledge, 2016. In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme […]
Sexual Knowledge Cultures Seminar – Philippa Levine
Reed Hall, Ibraham Ahmed Room Streatham Dr, ExeterIn conjunction with Exeter's Rethinking Sexology project, Centre for Imperial and Global History and Global Engagement and Development we are delighted to welcome Professor Philippa Levine (University of Texas at Austin) to Exeter to speak on "Slavery and the Aesthetics of Abjection". 3-4:30pm, with a wine reception to follow. There will also be tea, coffee and cake. All are […]
Islamic Law and Sex/uality Workshop
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Lecture, Theatre 2 The University of Exeter will host a one day workshop exploring representations of the past by modern Muslims in a range of societies on topics relating to sex and sexuality in Islamic Law. More details and the full programme here.
Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, University of Exeter
University of Exeter ExeterAna 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: -Welcome and keynote by Dr Ina Linge, Associate Research Fellow, Rethinking Sexology project, University of Exeter (and Sexual Knowledge member). -Reproduction, Family Planning and Embryonic […]
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 […]
Theologians’ Views of Infertility in Medieval Europe: Catherine Rider (Exeter)
Constantine Leventis Teaching Room, Building:One University of Exeter, 21 St German's Rd, Exeter, DevonCatherine Rider (Exeter) shares her latest research on infertility in the Middle Ages. Her talk is titled: "A Punishment from God? Theologians' Views of Infertility in Medieval Europe". Part of the Centre for Medieval Studies seminar. See the full programme here.