Research Events and Seminars
Current Events - 2010
Professor Carol Mavor (Art History and Visual Culture) will be giving a research paper as part of the French Studies research seminars. Her talk is entitled 'Blue Mythologies' and will discuss the presence and meanings of the colour 'blue' in contemporary French film and art culture. Among other themes, Carol will also highlight the queerness of Proust and Chantal Akerman.
Date: Thursday 4th February 2010
Time: 4.15pm
Venue: Mansfield Cooper, G19
Past Events
Sexuality Summer School Seminars
9 May 2009 Prof. Joanne Meyerowitz (Yale University)
A Different History of Gender
Joanne Meyerowitz author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States discussed transgender history, especially the history of transsexuality.
20 May 2009 Prof. Amelia Jones (University of Manchester)
Queer and the Limits of Feminism
Leading feminist art historian, critic and curator, Amelia Jones, considered how and in what ways the idea of queer ruptures our belief that we can judge the gender/sex of people we encounter by how they look.
21 May 2009 Prof David Halperin (University of Michigan)
How to be Gay
David Halperin discussed the topics from his new book How to be Gay: What's the relation between male homosexuality as a sexual practice and male homosexuality as a cultural practice? What explains the cultural object-choices of gay men? What can we find out about gay male subjectivity by studying gay men's cultural preferences instead of their sexual preferences?
David Halperin