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
Unless stated otherwise, the seminars take place at 4.00 pm in the stated venue. 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, 2022/23
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 8 Feb |
Dr Emily Ward (University of Edinburgh) |
‘Duped by an adolescent girl’: Adolescence, gender and belonging in Medieval Europe, c. 1000–c. 1250' | G.10 Seminar Room, Old Medical School, Doorway 4 |
| Wed 15 Mar | Dr Wannes Dupont (University of Edinburgh) |
'A conspiracy against life: Global Catholicism and birth control at the United Nations, 1948-1968' With the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History |
G.16 Seminar Room, Old Medical School, Doorway 4 |
| Wed 5 Apr | Dr Kate Davison (University of Edinburgh) |
'Is the history of homosexual aversion therapy a history about men? ' |
G.10 Seminar Room, Old Medical School, Doorway 4 |
| Wed 3 May | Dr Catriona Kennedy (University of York) (rescheduled) |
'“Your servants that were your servants”: Irish domestic servants, radicalism and rebellion in the 1790s' With Modern Irish History Research Seminars |
Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Doorway 1 |
ester 1, 2022/23
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 12 Oct |
Dr Kate Gibson (University of Manchester)
|
'Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain' Joint seminar with Economic and Social History Research Group |
MST G.16 Seminar Room |
| Wed 26 Oct |
PhD Short Papers Tudor Stefanescu (Tor Vergata University of Rome) Hannah Weaver (University of Edinburgh) |
'Testimonies of women in marriage litigations in the XV century' 'Masculinity and Misbehaviour: A Study of the Edinburgh City Guard in the Late Eighteenth Century' |
MST G.14 Seminar Room |
| Tue 22 Nov |
Dr Mobeen Hussain (Trinity College Dublin) |
'Self-fashioning bodies, performing fairness: Tracing in the materiality of skin-lightening across Colonial India' Joint seminar with the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, G.07 |
| Wed 30 Nov | Dr Catriona Kennedy (University of York) |
*POSTPONED* '“Your servants that were your servants”: Irish domestic servants, radicalism and rebellion in the 1790s' Joint with the Modern Irish History Research Seminars |
MST G.14 Seminar Room |
| Wed 07 Dec | Maria Helena Machado (University of São Paulo) | 'An enslaved mother and her sons: Slavery and death in late 19th century Brazil' | MST G.10 Seminar Room |
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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