Roles: A Gender and Sexuality Forum
Third Annual Gender and Sexuality Conference
University of Birmingham,
10th May 2013
Key Note Speaker: Dr. Nadine Muller
This one-day interdisciplinary conference offers postgraduates the opportunity to present their research in a friendly and supportive environment. We invite applications for twenty-minute papers from researchers working within the fields of gender and sexuality studies.
Suggestions for presentations may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
– social policy, government legislation, and matters of the law
– cultural products: film / music / art / TV / literature
– media, representation, and social images
– sexuality, otherness, erotic practice
– the body: subject, object, identity
– theory, methodology, practice
– feminism and postfeminism: representation and invisibility
– queer and trans*: changing images of femininity and masculinity
Please send an abstract, including a short bio, of no more than 300 words to g.roles@hotmail.com by 10th March 2013.
Roles is an interdisciplinary research forum hosted by researchers at the University of Birmingham for the purpose of fostering discussion and debate. We hold regular seminars as well as our annual conference, and can be followed online: T: @groles, F:
/roles-a-gender-and-sexuality-forum, W: groles.wordpress.com, E:
g.roles@hotmail.com.
Category: events
Gray’s Inn Seminar: Criminals or Victims?
Readers may be interested in this forthcoming event
CRIMINALS OR VICTIMS?
A Necessary Guide to the Non-Criminalisation of Victims of Human Trafficking
Panel
Peter Carter QC
18 Red Lion Court
Parosha Chandran
1 Pump Court
Pam Bowen
Head of Trafficking Policy, CPS
An expert seminar aiming to bridge gaps in knowledge concerning the criminalisation of victims of trafficking.
Principally for Judges, Barristers and Students with an interest in criminal law and public law, the seminar seeks to raise awareness of how to identify possible victims of trafficking and how to protect the legal rights of such persons
Monday 4th February 2013 Gray’s Inn Hall 6.15pm – 8.15pm
The cost is £10 for students to attend the seminar and drinks afterwards. Everyone must register in advance for the event. For mor einfo, and the registration form, contact cpd@graysinn.org.uk
Gender, Sex and Power: Seminar Series
The wonderful Rob Clucas at the University of Hull has organised what looks like a really interesting seminar series. it’s called Gender, Sex and Power and the details can be seen below:
The Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities Speaker Series, Durham University
Readers may be interested in these forthcoming events:
Workshop: Problematising ‘Problematic’ Pregnancies Presenters: Dr Sally Brown, Dr Rachel Colls and Abi McNiven, Durham University Discussant: Professor Robyn Longhurst, University of Waikato 22/11/2012, 09:30 to 12:00, Room W215, Department of Geography
A Phenomenology of Cultural Racism: Veiling, Embodiment, and the Nature of Culture, Prof Alia Al-Saji, The Institute of Advanced Studies, Durham University Wor 05/12/2012, 16:45 to 18:00, Shincliffe Room, St Aidan’s
Feminist Punk Rock Academia? Punk praxis, grassroots activism and the future of feminisms, Dr Julia Downes, Durham University 12/12/2012, 16:45 to 18:00, Shincliffe Room, St Aidan’s
Child Sexual Exploitation, Vulnerability and Justice, Prof Jo Phoenix, Durham University 24/01/2013, 16:45 to 18:00, Shincliffe Room, St Aidan’s
Seminar topic to be announced, Mr Neil Cobb, University of Manchester 20/02/2013, 16:45 to 18:00, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s
Bodies and Struggles in Syria: an Anthropological Approach, Dr Maria Kastrinou, Durham University 06/03/2013, 16:45 to 18:00, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s
Seminar topic to be announced, Prof Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College, Columbia University 02/04/2013, 16:45 to 18:00, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s
Edith Thompson and Traumatic Collective Memories of Capital Punishment, Dr Lizzie Seal, University of Sussex 07/05/2013, 18:00 to 19:15, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s
Seminar topic to be announced, Prof Wendy Chapkis, University of Southern Maine w/b 03/06/2013, 16:45 to 18:00, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s
Gender, Heterosexuality and Youth Violence, Prof James Messerschmidt, University of Southern Maine 05/06/2013, 18:00 to 19:15, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s
Queer Homes, Queer Families: a history and policy debate at the British Library Conference Centre
Readers may be interested in this forthcoming event:
With Peter Tatchell; Professor Jeffrey Weeks, OBE; Dr Kath Holden; Professor Sasha Roseneil; Professor Alison Oram; and Dr Matt Cook.
Monday 17th December 2012, 6.30 – 8.00pm
Places still available but numbers are limited so book soon!
The last decade has seen incredible changes in attitudes towards lesbians and gay men and their relationship to home and family. From legislation on adoption, civil partnerships and access to fertility treatments to representations on sitcoms like ‘Modern Family’ and home make-over shows, there has been a marked domestication of queer men and women. If Clause 28 famously saw all this as a pretence, these home lives are now, arguably, being taken seriously. In this panel discussion we ask what precedents there are for apparently unconventional home and family formations; how far recent shifts reflect broader changes in expectations and experiences of home and family; what they might portend in terms of assimilation, radicalism and difference; and why history might matter in all this.
Please come and join the discussion. The debate is free and open to all, but booking is essential. To reserve your place please contact Katy Pettit k.pettit@uel.ac.uk The event is convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, hosted by the British Library and supported by the AHRC.
SLSA 2013 CFP: Gender, Sexuality and Law
I’m once again organising the Gender, Sexuality and Law Stream at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference next year. It’s going to be at the University of York and will take place March 26-28th. I hope many of you will be able to make it, and that you’ll consider presenting a paper or poster. You can see all the Calls for Papers here, along with general info on the conference.
Out and About
I’m sometimes where I’m next going to be out and about (often, by would-be burglars). I’ve accepted a couple of invites to speak next year, so hopefully see some of you at one of these events:
I’ll be speaking as part of the Newcastle Law School Seminar Series entitled ‘Law, Families, Personal Life: New Reflections’. I’m speaking on Thursday 7 February at 4pm in Seminar Room 3 in the Law School. My presentation is entitled: ‘Family and the Homonormative: Where Now for Queer Legal Identities?’
For further details contact: Suzanne Johnson, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, 21-24 Windsor Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU. Tel: 0191 222 8637 e.mail Suzanne.Johnson@ncl.ac.uk
Then, on Saturday April 6th, I’ll be over at Staffordshire University. I’m speaking as part of the Staffordshire University Law School Centre for Family Law and Policy Annual Family Law Seminar. My provision title is the very original: ‘Family and the Homonormative: Where Now for Queer Legal Identities?’. You may have seen it used elsewhere…
I’ll post more details about that next year. If you organise a charity, community or academic event, I’m always willing to speak if I can fit in my diary, and providing my expenses are covered. Don’t be afraid of getting in touch: chris.ashford@sunderland.ac.uk
Diversity Week
I’m absolutely delighted to be speaking as part of the Student Union run Diversity Week in Sunderland next week. More information about the week can be found here.
I’m speaking on Wednesday 14 November (not December as I accidentally wrote earlier) as part of the session called ‘Being Gay’. Here’s the official description: In order to celebrate, raise awareness and highlight the LGBT ( lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community at University of Sunderland as well as the Sunderland City, we are organizing an exciting event that will include a talk by Chris Ashford and a movie screening […] After the talk we will be showing: Beautiful Thing (trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf0fvLprGk4) There will also be a buffet available and the event is FREE to attend.
I’m going to talk on the subject of ‘Being Gay’, particularly how shifts in the law over the last few decades and re-shaped and re-made the LGBT identity. Don’t worry, I’ll be pitching it for a broad audience so I promise there will be (I’ll try) no impenetrable theory. If you’re in the area – whether a student at the uni or otherwise – do feel free to come along and say hello. It’s an event for the City community, not just the University. Me, a film and free food – what else were you going to do on Wednesday? Hope to see some of you there!
Centre for Gender Studies Seminar Series 2012-13: Gender, Sex and Power
Readers may be interested in this series of forthcoming seminars, organised by Rob Clucas (r.j.clucas@hull.ac.uk)
Dr Meg Barker, Open University
‘Critically informed kink? Comparing understandings of sex, gender and power in 50 Shades and the BDSM blogosphere’
Keynote speaker Gender, Sex & Power: interdisciplinary dialogues
University of Hull Postgraduate Conference
Wednesday 21st November 2012, 4.30 pm,
Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery & Emancipation (WISE)
Christina Richards, West London Mental Health NHS Trust (Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic)
‘Trans and sexuality – theory and pragmatics’
Wednesday 6th February 2013, 4.15 pm South East Asia Museum, 1st Floor, Wilberforce Building
Grant Denkinson, polyamory community activist volunteer
‘Polyamory Activism’
Wednesday 6th March 2013, 4.15 pm South East Asia Museum, 1st Floor, Wilberforce Building
Professor Lisa Downing, University of Birmingham
‘Re-assessing Agency and Consent in Queer and Feminist Theory’
Wednesday, 17 April 2013, 4.15 pm South East Asia Museum, 1st Floor, Wilberforce Building
Vicki Kirby, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales
‘Can anthropocentrism be redeemed?’
Wednesday, 8 May 2013, 4.15 pm South East Asia Museum, 1st Floor, Wilberforce Building
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