28 February 2007: Sexual Subcultures and Discourses of Health and Harm
Chaired by Dany Nobus (Brunel University)
Robert Gillett
(Senior Lecturer in German, Queen Mary, University of London)
“AIDS is not a Disease but a Discourse”
Tim Dean
(Professor of English, University at Buffalo SUNY)
“Breeding Culture: Barebacking, Bugchasing, Giftgiving”
Lisa Downing
(Professor and Director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter)
“Beyond Safety: Erotic Asphyxiation and the Limits of SM Discourse”
Panel debate chaired by Dany Nobus
with the three speakers and:
Martin Baggaley
(Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Lead NHS Connecting for Health London)
Darren Langdridge
(Lecturer in Social Psychology, Open University)
26 June 2007: Embodying Femininity
Guest-convened by Paula Reavey (London South Bank University)
Ros Gill
(Senior Lecturer in Gender Theory and Gender Studies, London School of Economics)
“Supersexualize Me! Advertising and the Midriffs”
Helen Malson
(Reader in Social Psychology, University of the West of England)
“Between Discourse and Embodied Experience: Reflections on Analysing Women’s Accounts in Feminist Post-Structuralist Research”
Lilliana Del Busso
(PhD candidate, London South Bank University)
and
Paula Reavey
(Senior Lecturer in Psychology, London South Bank University)
“Moving within and Beyond the Surface: Young women’s Embodied Experiences in Everyday Life”
Respondent:
Elizabeth Stephens
(Research Fellow, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia, and British Academy Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter)
7 November 2007 : International Approaches to Bisexuality
Organized by Meg Barker
Chaired by Alessandra Iantaffi
Speakers:
Ron Fox
(Professor in Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco)
“International Perspectives on Bisexuality: Documenting and Preserving History in the Making”
Matthew Waites
(Lecturer in Sociology, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences, University of Glasgow)
“Bisexuality, ‘Sexual Orientation’ and Human Rights: The Global Politics of Sexual Identities”
Clare Hemmings
(Senior Lecturer in Gender Theory and Gender Studies, London School of Economics)
“Bisexuality and Queer Transnationalism ”
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The seminar was preceded by a series of presentations and workshops by and for PhD students and others researching bisexuality:
Toni Brennan, “Charlotte Wolff and the History of Bisexual Research”
Robin Cackett, “The Freud-Fliess-Controversy or: Investments in Bisexuality in Early Psychoanalysis”
Helen Bowes-Catton, “Swordfighting, Drag Kings, and Cuddles: Embodying Identity in ‘Spectacular’ Bisexual Space”
Christian Klesse, “Personal Identities and Sexuality Research: on Reflexivity and Positionality”
Alex Toft, “Bisexual Christians: The Lived Experiences of a Marginalized Community”
Workshop on the links and tensions between bi academic research and queer theory, bi activism and queer activism, facilitated by Camel Gupta and Meg Barker.