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By clicking on the relevant tabs above, you will find descriptions of past and future Conferences and Special Events hosted by CISSGE and details of our Seminar Series, which brings speakers from Exeter, the UK, Europe and world-wide to disseminate cutting edge research in topics of relevance to CISSGE's research remit.
*CISSGE POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE*
We are pleased to
announce that the postponed CISSGE postgraduate conference, "Forgotten
Bodies: Identities, Practices, Representations", will now take place on
9 April 2010.
Click here for details.
Inaugural Lecture:
The Centre's Inaugural Lecture was delivered on Monday 26th February 2007 by Prof. Tim Dean , University
at Buffalo (SUNY). Title: "Embodying Power: On Foucault's Histories of Sexuality".
The first CISSGE Postgraduate Conference on "Sexuality and Gender in Dialogue and Discourse" took place on 31st May-1st June 2007.
The Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter held a major international conference on "Sexual Histories: Bodies and Desires Uncovered" on 23-25 July 2007. The keynote speakers were: Prof. Joan Cadden (UC Davis, USA), Prof. Lisa Downing (Director of CISSGE, University of Exeter) and Prof. Phillippa Levine (University of Southern California, USA). Speakers included several CISSGE members and International Affiliates. Further details can be found here.
'The Natural and the Normal in the History of Sexuality' - A
conference jointly conceived by Prof. Peter Cryle, Director of the
Centre for the History of European Discourses (CHED), University of
Queensland, Australia and Prof. Lisa Downing, Director of CISSGE. The
conference was be held at the Monash Centre, Prato, Italy, 8-10
September 2008. Details of the project can be found here.
'Sexuality, Textuality, Image' - the Second CISSGE Postgraduate Conference was held on 12 September 2008.
'Queer in Europe' - a three-day major International
Research Symposium was held at the University of Exeter under the auspices of
CISSGE from 13-15 September 2008.
'Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives from Early Modern
Times to the Present Day', a two-day international CISSGE conference organised in collaboration with, and held at, the IGRS, London. 18-19 March 2010.
The 2009-10 CISSGE Seminar Series programme:
Semester 1:
Wednesday 28th October 4pm, room MR3 (Queens)
Dr Corinna Wagner (Dept of English, SALL)
'Amazons and Monstrous Mothers: Politics and the Biologically-Suspect Woman'
Wednesday 9th December 3pm, LT2 ( Queens) - co-hosted with DML
Darina Al-Joundi (playwright, Paris)
‘The day Nina Simone stopped singing: Lebanon and the “free woman”, between reality and fiction’
Semester 2:
Wednesday 17th February 2010, 3pm, LT4.2 (Queen's)
Dr Jason Hartford (CISSGE, Exeter)
'Masculinity and the Meanings of
Thinness'
Wednesday 19th April, 3pm, LT4.1 (Queen's). Co-hosted with the Centre for Medical History
Dr Chiara Beccalossi (Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia)
'Female Same-Sex Desires: Conceptualizing a Disease in Competing Medical Fields in Nineteenth-Century Europe'
The 2006-07 programme:
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Dr Helen Vassallo (Lecturer in French, SALL, Exeter), 7th December, title: "Embodying trauma: social 'normality' and sexual identity in the life writing of Nina Bouraoui". Venue: Lecture Theatre 4.2 (Queen's Building) at 4pm.
Drinks in the SCR (Queen's) from 5.30.
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(Feminist research Network Seminar) Dr Julie Miller (Independent Researcher and Writer), 7th March, title: "The Writer Next Door: South West Women Writers". Venue: Lecture Theatre 6.2, Queen's Building. For more information, see Julie's webpage: http://www.south-west-women-writers.co.uk/
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Prof. Gill Plain (Professor of English Literature
and Popular Culture, University of St Andrews) (event co-organised by
CISSGE and the Department of Modern Languages, SALL, Exeter), Friday 4th May,
4pm, title: "Flagging Masculinity: John Mills and the Embodiment of Nation 1935-1045". Venue Room D, Queen's Building.
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Dr Peter Hegarty (Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Surrey), 23rd May, title: "From the inverted genius to the genders of gifted children: Lewis Terman and the modernization of normativity". Venue: Lecture Theatre 4.1, Queen's.
The 2007-08 programme:
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Dr Kate Fisher (Senior Lecturer in History, HUSS, University of Exeter) and Dr Rebecca Langlands
(Senior Lecturer in Classics, HUSS, University of Exeter), "Getting a
Rise out of the Tourist: Pompeian Erotica and the Internet Generation",
4pm, Wednesday 24th October, Room 1G, Queen's Building.
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Dr Robert Gillett
(Senior Lecturer in German, Queen Mary, University of London),
"Sky-Blue Pink with a Tartan Border: Travels in the Hegemonies of
Gender", 4pm, Friday 23rd November, Room F, Queen's Building.
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Dr Douglas Morrey
(Associate Professor of French, University of Warwick), "Sex and the
Single Male: Michel Houellebecq, Feminism and Hegemonic Masculinity", 4pm, Wednesday 5th December, Room 1G, Queen's Building.
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A seminar jointly hosted by CISSGE and the French Unit: Dr Larry Duffy
(Lecturer in French, University of Queensland, Australia),
"Pharmaceutical and Hypodermic Incorporations in Flaubert and Zola", 4pm Wednesday 16th January, Room 1G, Queen's Building.
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A seminar jointly hosted by CISSGE and the Interdisciplinary Communism Research Group:
Dr Josie McLellan
(Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Bristol),
"Love in the Time of Communism: Sexuality and Everyday Life in East
Germany", 3pm, Wednesday 23rd January, Lecture Theatre 7, Queen's Building
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A seminar jointly hosted by CISSGE and Equality and Diversity to mark LGBT month at Exeter: Nick Givens and Dr David Nixon
(School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter), "Not
Offensively Gay: Perceptions and Expectations of Student-Teachers in
England", 4pm, Wednesday 27th February, Room 1G, Queen's Building.
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Dr Fiona Handyside (Lecturer in Film, SALL, University of Exeter), "Queer Inheritances: Re-thinking Film Adaptation", 4pm, Wednesday 23rd April, Room 1G, Queen's Building.
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Prof. Nick Groom (Professor of English, SALL, University of Exeter) "Sex in the Springtime", 4.30pm, Wednesday, 21st May, Room 1C, Queen's Building.
The 2008-09 Programme:
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Prof. Lisa Downing (Director of CISSGE, French), "Performativity in Queer Theory: Fluidity and the Scapegoating of Fixity", 3pm, 19/11/08, LT7 1&2, Queen's Building
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Dr Pascale Aebischer (Senior Lecturer in English, University of Exeter), "Silence and Rape in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure at the RSC, 1970-2006", 4pm, 26/11/08, LT7 1&2, Queen's Building
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Dr Hugh Roberts (Senior Lecturer in French, University of Exeter), "Apologies for Obscenity in French Renaissance Texts", 28/01/09, 3pm, LT7 1&2, Queen's Building
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Dr David Houston Jones (Senior Lecturer in French, University of Exeter), "Beckett: Body, Information, Testimony", 4pm, 18/02/09LT7 1&2, Queen's Building
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(Joint Medical History/ CISSGE Seminar), Dr Lutz Sauerteig (Lecturer, Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, University of Durham), "Puberty and the Making of Gender: Explaining Bodily Changes in Sex Education, 1900-1980", 4pm, 25/02/09, room F, Queen's Building
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(Joint CISSGE/ CRIFS Seminar)
Dr Nick Rees-Roberts (Lecturer in French Film, University of Bristol), "From racaille to pin-up: the beur Faces of queer French Cinema", 12pm, 06/03/09, LT2, Queen's Building
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(Joint CISSGE/ Medical History Seminar), Dr Ivan Crozier (Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of Edinburgh), "Culture, Psychiatry and Koro: Penis-Shrinking, Masculinity, and Culture-bound Syndromes", 4pm, 07/05/09, Room D, Streatham Court
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Dr Chloë Paver (Senior Lecturer in German, University of Exeter), "Gender Issues in Historical Exhibitions about the Third Reich", 4pm, 20/05/09, LT7 1&2, Queen's Building
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