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The founding of the History of Sexuality seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London, marks a recognition that the field has grown enormously during recent years. The new seminar reverses the lacuna in sustained seminar provision in Lond...

School of Advanced Study, University of London


    • Feb 13, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 27 EPISODES


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    Lesbian Domesticities: Material structures of same-sex intimacy in post-war Britain and Australia

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2018 47:32


    The Visibility of Rural Brazil: The Itaipu Dam and the Experience of Dictatorship in the Countryside

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2017 40:27


    acob Blanc, University of Edinburgh This talk uses the history of the Itaipu hydroelectric dam and the struggle of displaced farmers, peasants, and indigenous groups to understand how Brazil's dictatorship was experienced and contested in the countr...

    Redefining 'Normal' Child Sexuality: Encounters between Sexologists and Psychoanalysts at the fin de siècle

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2017 43:41


    Liberalism, Politics, Identity and Reform of British Sodomy Laws in the Early Nineteenth Century

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2017 37:55


    Institute of Historical Research Liberalism, Politics, Identity and Reform of British Sodomy Laws in the Early Nineteenth Century Charles Upchurch (Florida State University) History of Sexuality seminar series

    Que(e)rying Social Purity: Sexology, Theology, and Sexual Modernity

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2017 48:04


    Institute of Historical Research Que(e)rying Social Purity: Sexology, Theology, and Sexual Modernity Joy Dixon (University of British Columbia) History of Sexuality seminar series

    A Permissive Society? Opinion Polls and Social Change in Postwar Britain

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2017 44:18


    Institute of Historical Research A Permissive Society? Opinion Polls and Social Change in Postwar Britain Marcus Collins (Loughborough University) When (if ever) did Britain become a ‘permissive society’? Were the ‘cultural revolution

    The Labour of Bourgeois Sexuality in the Age of Revolutions

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2017 39:53


    Institute of Historical Research The Labour of Bourgeois Sexuality in the Age of Revolutions Tom Cutterham (University of Birmingham) Elite women in the eighteenth-century were trained in what many conduct-writers called "the art of pleasing....

    When is the past in Female Sexual Dysfunction?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2016 44:34


    Institute of Historical Research When is the past in Female Sexual Dysfunction? Katherine Angel (Kingston University) In this talk I will reflect on an increasing convergence between recent changes in the classification of women's sexual prob...

    Sensuous Objects: Writing the History of Sexuality from Ancient Art

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2016 51:35


    Institute of Historical Research Sensuous Objects: Writing the History of Sexuality from Ancient Art Caspar Meyer (Birkbeck) It is commonplace among classicists to criticize Michel Foucault’s studies of ancient sexuality for its undue relia...

    Medical appeals to sexuality in understanding and policing those who wanted to 'change sex' during the 1930s and 1940s

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2016 49:42


    Institute of Historical Research Medical appeals to sexuality in understanding and policing those who wanted to 'change sex' during the 1930s and 1940s Clare Tebbutt (Nottingham Trent University) History of Sexuality seminar series

    Pride of Place: England's LGBTQ Heritage

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2016 60:39


    Institute of Historical Research Pride of Place: England's LGBTQ Heritage Alison Oram (Leeds Beckett University) Justin Bengry (Birkbeck, University of London and Leeds Beckett University) 'Pride of Place: England's LGBTQ Heritage' is a ...

    Sexuality, AIDS and the past in Zimbabwe: interweaving discourses and contested histories

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2015 57:46


    Institute of Historical Research Sexuality, AIDS and the past in Zimbabwe: interweaving discourses and contested histories Professor Diana Jeater (Goldsmiths, University of London) In 1999, Zimbabwe was the world's most HIV-infected country. ...

    Hidden in Plain Sight? The British Press and Child Sexual Abuse, c.1918-1970s

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2015


    Institute of Historical Research Hidden in Plain Sight? The British Press and Child Sexual Abuse, c.1918-1970s Adrian Bingham (University of Sheffield) Adrian Bingham (University of Sheffield) This paper will examine the reporting of child...

    The child as catalyst for change - free upbringing, free sex and socialism in early 20th century

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2015


    Institute of Historical Research The child as catalyst for change - free upbringing, free sex and socialism in early 20th century Camila Paldam (Aarhus) Co-hosted with the Life-Cycles History seminar series

    The De-Naturalization of Sexuality in 21st Century Psyschology

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2015 56:44


    Institute of Historical Research The De-Naturalization of Sexuality in 21st Century Psychology Professor Peter Hegarty (Surrey) Do the psy- disciplines inevitably discipline and punish, naturalize differences, and individualize in the service...

    Portugal on the periphery? Scenarios from the History of Sexuality, 1900-1960

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2015 54:24


    Institute of Historical Research Portugal on the periphery? Scenarios from the History of Sexuality, 1900-1960 Richard Cleminson (Leeds) Within the History of Sexuality, Portugal rarely gets a mention. This may be in part to what the sociolog...

    Sex backwards. Sexology speaks about desire in communist Czechoslovakia

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2015 46:38


    Institute of Historical Research Sex backwards. Sexology speaks about desire in communist Czechoslovakia Kateřina Lišková (Masaryk University) Sexuality devolved rather than evolved in Czechoslovakia. Contrary to the commonly accepted na...

    'The Continuous Thread of Revelation': Chrononormativity and the Challenge of Queer Oral History

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2015 37:46


    Institute of Historical Research 'The Continuous Thread of Revelation': Chrononormativity and the Challenge of Queer Oral History Dr Amy Tooth Murphy (University of Roehampton) Is oral history inherently queer? Oral history has long been held...

    Orgasmic Pedagogy at two Chinese Villages near Tianjin, 1999-2000

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2014 37:56


    Institute of Historical Research Orgasmic Pedagogy at two Chinese Villages near Tianjin, 1999-2000 Dr Leon Rocha (University of Liverpool) History of Sexuality seminar series

    Negotiating #SocMedia4Hist: Technologies, Tactics and Triumphs

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2014 38:35


    03-12-14 Institute of Historical Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/ http://www.history.ac.uk/events/browse/17404 Institute: https://www.history.ac.uk Negotiating #SocMedia4Hist: Technologies, Tactics and Triumphs Claire Hayward (Kingston Unive...

    Attitudes to ejaculation in early modern England

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2014 50:50


    Institute of Historical Research Attitudes to ejaculation in early modern England Dr Tim Reinke-Williams (University of Northampton) Existing scholarship on ejaculation has focused on the analysis of particular types of primary evidence in t...

    The appeal of a German Theory of Homosexuality to Zionism in the 1920s: Hashomer Hatzair Youth Movement as Mannerbund

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2014 97:41


    Institute of Historical Research The appeal of a German Theory of Homosexuality to Zionism in the 1920s: Hashomer Hatzair Youth Movement as Mannerbund Dr Ofer Nordheimer Nur (Tel Aviv University) History of Sexuality Seminar

    The History of Sex in Twentieth-Century South Africa

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2014 106:12


    Institute of Historical Research The History of Sex in Twentieth-Century South Africa Dr Catherine Burns (WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand) Facts about Ourselves: Teaching Sex Education to South African Children, 1919-1939 Dr Sarah Duff...

    Goethe's Erotic Poetry and the Libertine Spectre

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2014 61:15


    Institute of Historical Research Professor Dan Wilson (Royal Holloway) History of Sexuality Seminar

    An Awful Lot of Casual Sex Going On: Working Class Men and the Landscape of SameSex Desire in the North of England, 1945-1960

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2014 102:20


    Institute of Historical Research 28-01-14 (Chair: Dr Jana Funke) Dr Helen Smith (University of Sheffield) Dr Emma Vickers (Liverpool John Moores University) - Get Some In! Managing Queer Desire and National Service in Britain, 1945-1963

    What is the History of Sexuality?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2014 122:40


    What is the History of Sexuality? Institute of Historical Research 07-01-14 (Chair: Dr Chiara Beccalossi and Dr Jana Funke) Dr Howard Chiang (Warwick University) Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala (University of Oxford) Professor Kate Fisher (Universit...

    What is the History of Sexuality?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2014


    What is the History of Sexuality? Institute of Historical Research (Chair: Dr Chiara Beccalossi and Dr Jana Funke) Dr Howard Chiang (Warwick University) Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala (University of Oxford) Professor Kate Fisher (University of Exe...

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