Histories of Gender and Sexuality seminars

The Histories of Gender and Sexuality seminar series runs regularly throughout the academic year. Seminars are open to all.

Time and location

Please check below for venues and start times. Precirculated papers will be circulated to the HGS email list. To be added to the list please contact hca-hgsr@ed.ac.uk Our seminars take the form of shorter papers followed by discussion, 'virtual archive' sessions, which introduce sources and related research questions followed by discussion and conversational interviews.

Semester 2, 2024/25

Thu 13 Feb	Dr Elise Watson (Edinburgh)	‘Viragos and unscrupulous ladies: Professional bookwomen’s networks in Early Modern Edinburgh and Beyond’	Co-sponsored with Scottish History Seminar: 5.15pm, LG10, 40 George Square
Tue 25 Mar	Olivia Wyatt (Queen Mary University of London)	‘“Black is Beautiful”: The Politics of pigmentation within the British Black Women’s Movement, 1970-1990’	5-6:30 pm, LG.11, 40 George Square. Joint with Centre for Study of Modern and Contemporary History
Wed 2 Apr	Katie Sutton (Australian National University) and Annette Timm (University of Calgary)	'New Directions in the History of Sexuality and Gender'	4-6pm, Room G.16, Doorway 4, Old Medical School Register via Eventbrite (free)
Wed 23 Apr	Dr Paige Donaghy (Melbourne)	'Tracing the history of ‘obstetric violence’ in British medicine, 1690-1890'	3pm, Teaching Room 12 (01M.469) - Doorway 3 (Medical School, Teviot) With History of Science, Medicine and Technology research group

Semester 1, 2024/25

Wed 6 Nov	Dr Tess Wingard (Trinity College Dublin)	'Were the ‘bawdy courts’ really that bawdy? Writing histories of gender and sexuality through the records of the late medieval ecclesiastical courts'	G.16, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, 4.10pm
Wed 20 Nov	Professor Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow)	'Reproductive freedom or racialised anti-natalism? The introduction of the pill in the French Antilles (Guadeloupe & Martinique, 1960s)'	G.16, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, 4.10pm

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This article was published on 2024-08-01