30 January 2015: Feminist Encounters with Evolutionary Psychology

A guest-organized session convened by Rachel O’Neill (King’s College, London).

Speakers:

Prof. Deborah Cameron (University of Oxford)
“Evolution, language and the battle of the sexes: A feminist linguist encounters evolutionary psychology”

Dr Celia Roberts (Lancaster University)
“Evolution, early puberty and the half-lives of childhood trauma: A feminist encounter”

Laura Garcia-Favaro (City University).
“The ‘truth’ cannot be sexist?: Postfeminist biologism in transnational technologies of mediated intimacy”​

22 May 2015: Queer/Coercion

A “Critsex in the Midlands” session.
A guest-organized session convened by Dr Oliver Davis (University of Warwick)

Speakers:

Alex Dymock (Law, Criminology and Sociology, Royal Holloway)
‘Eroticising retribution?: criminalising “revenge pornography”’

Marc Lafrance (Sociology, Concordia)
‘The Dark Side of Camp: Violence Against Men in Popular Music Videos Made by Women’

Matthew Waites (Sociology, Glasgow)
‘Queering Genocide’

Respondents:

Oliver Davis (French Studies, Warwick)
Kayte Stokoe (French Studies, Warwick)

23 October 2015: Fat Sex”
A guest-organized session by Dr Caroline Walters (Middlesex University).

Speakers:

Dr Francis Ray White (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Westminster)
“Failures, Futures, and the Queerness of Fat Sex”

Frances Hatherley (PhD Student, Middlesex University)
“Against ‘Good Taste': Class, Corpulence, and the Subversive Pleasures of ‘Unfit’ Femininities”

Respondents:

Michelle Green (PhD Student, University of Nottingham)
Laura Ellen Joyce (Lecturer in Film and Literature at Edinburgh Napier University)