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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.
Watch this space for forthcoming Centre conferences and events. (Details of the regular seminar series can be found under the next tab.)
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.
The Second CISSGE Postgraduate Conference on "Sexuality, Textuality, Image" took place on 12th 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 13th-15th 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. 18th-19th March 2010.
The Third CISSGE Postgraduate Conference on "Forgotten
Bodies: Identities, Practices, Representations", took place on 9th April 2010.
"Representations of Prostitution, Sex Work and Sex Trafficking between the 19th and 21st Centuries", a two-day international CISSGE conference at the University of Exeter, 9-10 September 2010. Organised by Dr Danielle Hipkins, CISSGE, in collaboration with the School of Creative Studies and Media, University of Bangor.
"Transgression and Discipline in the History of Sexuality" - a project meeting and colloquium co-organised by Prof. Peter Cryle,
CHED, University of Queensland, AUS and Prof. Lisa Downing, CISSGE,
Exeter was held in Prato, Italy, 13-15 September 2010. For
details, click here.
The 2011-12 programme:
ALL SEMINARS WILL BE HELD IN LT4.2, QUEEN'S BUILDING.
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Wednesday 16th November, 4pm.
Dr David Houston Jones (Senior Lecturer, Dept of Modern Languages, University of Exeter)
'Gender, Body and Archive: Marguerite Duras and Silvia Kolbowski'.
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Wednesday 14th December, 4pm.
Martin Baxter and Elena Lipsos (PhD candidates in Sexuality and Gender Studies)
Titles:
Martin: 'Patriarchal Power and Personal Gain: Masculinities, Hierarchy and the Motivation to Rape'.
Elena: 'Eroticism, Eugenics and the Streamlined Petty Girl in 1930s America'.
(Martin's thesis is on the 'reformability' of Western rape culture, and Elena's is on a genealogy of the 'pin-up'. Their papers will present aspects of their current research.)
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Wednesday 1st February, 4pm.
Prof. Lisa Downing (Founding Director of CISSGE, University of Exeter)
Lisa will give a presentation on some of the work undertaken during her two-year Philip Leverhulme Prize-funded research leave. She will present a paper based on a chapter of her forthcoming book The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality and the Making of the Modern Killer (Chicago University Press, 2012), entited:
'"Infanticidal" Femininity: The Case of Myra Hindley'
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Wednesday 29th February, 5pm
Joint DML/ CISSGE Seminar
Dr Sue Harris (Reader in French Cinema Studies, Queen Mary, University of London)
'Gérard Depardieu, monstre sacré: Ageing and the Male Body'.
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Wednesday 14th March, 4pm.
Dr Vike Plock (Lecturer in English, University of Exeter)
'Virginia Woolf, Fashion, and Fascism'.
The 2006-07 programme:
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(Feminist research Network Seminar) Dr Julie Miller (Independent Researcher and Writer), "The Writer Next Door: South West Women Writers". 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, Exeter), "Flagging Masculinity: John Mills and the Embodiment of Nation 1935-1045".
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Dr Peter Hegarty (Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Surrey), "From the inverted genius to the genders of gifted children: Lewis Terman and the modernization of normativity".
The 2007-08 programme:
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Dr Kate Fisher (Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter) and Dr Rebecca Langlands
(Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Exeter), "Getting a
Rise out of the Tourist: Pompeian Erotica and the Internet Generation".
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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".
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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".
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(A seminar jointly hosted by CISSGE and French): Dr Larry Duffy
(Lecturer in French, University of Queensland, Australia),
"Pharmaceutical and Hypodermic Incorporations in Flaubert and Zola".
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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".
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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".
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Dr Fiona Handyside (Lecturer in Film, SALL, University of Exeter), "Queer Inheritances: Re-thinking Film Adaptation".
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Prof. Nick Groom (Professor of English, SALL, University of Exeter) "Sex in the Springtime".
The 2008-09 Programme
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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".
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Dr David Houston Jones (Senior Lecturer in French, University of Exeter), "Beckett: Body, Information, Testimony".
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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".
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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".
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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".
The 2009-2010 Programme
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Dr Corinna Wagner (Lecturer in English, University of Exeter) "Amazons and Monstrous Mothers: Politics and the Biologically-Suspect Woman".
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Darina Al-Joundi (playwright, Paris) "The day Nina Simone stopped singing: Lebanon and the 'free woman', between reality and fiction".
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Dr Jason Hartford (CISSGE, Exeter) "Masculinity and the Meanings of
Thinness".
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(Joint CISSGE/ Medical History Seminar), 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 2010-11 CISSGE Seminar Series programme:
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Dr Fiona Handyside (French and Film, University of Exeter), "Sex and the Cities: Representations of Prostitution in Manhattan, Paris and Toronto"
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Dr Scott Vrecko (Sociology, University of Exeter) "Problems of Desire: Sex, Drugs, Addiction and Contemporary Biopolitics
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Dr Ruth Cruickshank (French, Royal Holloway, University of London) "Feeding and Reading for the Plot in 1950s French Fiction: Beyond the Bounds of Desire and Death"
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Dr Jana Funke (Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter) "Losing Miss Ogilvy? Challenging Sexual Genealogies with Radclyffe Hall"
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