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, 2023/24
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 23 Jan | Ian Forrest (Glasgow) |
'Not quite priests (and not quite men?): Gender and authority at the fringes of the late medieval Church' Joint with Medieval History seminar |
5.15pm Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
| Mon 4 Mar | Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (Athens) |
‘Byzantine medicine in light of the Global Middle Ages: current trends and future avenues’ Joint with Byzantine Studies Research Seminar |
5.10pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
| Wed 27 Mar | Leah Astbury (Manchester) |
'The myth of the (early modern) vaginal orgasm' Joint with History of Science, Medicine and Technology |
4.10pm, Room G.16, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
| Wed 15th May | Sarah Ghasedi (Washington) |
"How the discovery of Sophia Jex-Blake's anonymous Scotsman journalism deepens our understanding of her historic campaign for female doctors in nineteenth-century Britain" Joint with History of Science, Medicine and Technology |
emester 1, 2023/24
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 4 Oct | Professor Julie Hardwick (University of Texas at Austin) | “A lump of flesh, fish guts, an alleged fetus, a fetus or a baby? The histories of fetal remains and women’s reproductive health in eighteenth-century France” | G.16 Seminar Room, Old Medical School, Doorway 4 |
| Tues 7 Nov |
Dr Jacob Bloomfield (Konstanz University) |
Roundtable & Book Launch: Panel members: Dr Jacob Bloomfield, Professor Louise Jackon, Dr Christian Illbury, Dr Rochelle Rowe & Dr Kate Davison (chair) Joint event with Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History & Lighthouse Books |
4-6pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School **Drinks reception to follow** |
| Wed 29 Nov |
Dr Onni Gust (University of Nottingham) |
Interview on transgender history and British imperial expansion in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries Joint event with Women’s History Scotland. |
Please note this event will take place online. |
Further information
Find out more about the Histories of Gender and Sexuality Research Group.
If you have any questions, please contact the seminar series organisers Zubin Mistry, Diana Paton, Hatice Yildiz, and Hannah Weaver.
Dr Zubin Mistry (BA, MA, PhD)
Lecturer; Early Medieval European History
- University of Edinburgh
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Contact details
- Email: Zubin.Mistry@ed.ac.uk
Dr Sarah Goldsmith
Chancellor’s Fellow; The history of masculinity, gender and the body
- University of Edinburgh
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Contact details
- Email: sgoldsmi@exseed.ed.ac.uk
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