Rebecca Jennings, University College London

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 countryside. By focusing on rural rather than urban spaces, we invert the conceptual and geographic narrative commonly used to study dictatorship in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America. Magnified by the international spotlight cast on the dam and...

Katie Sutton, Australian National University

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

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

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’ confined to the young, the middle class and the metropolitan? These questions have been a matter of debate within academic and popular circles ever since the 1960s, but remain fundamentally unresolved due to the source materials deployed. Those who identify...

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." First and foremost, that meant they were taught to be submissive, mild, and deferential towards men. Another eighteenth-century figure, the coquette, temporarily transgressed the injunction to submit. Yet her resistance was part of a ritual of...

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 problems in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (the DSM), and feminist critiques of that DSM. Both have tended towards a naturalization of low desire in women; in the manual, an erasure of a diagnosis of low desire in...

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 reliance on elite texts and the corresponding absence of female perspectives. One aspect of ancient sexual experience that has been neglected by Foucault and his critics alike is its sensory constitution. Although recent years have seen a surge in...

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

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 collaborative initiative between Leeds Beckett University and Historic England to explore the relationship between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) history and the country's buildings and spaces. The project aims to show that LGBTQ...

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. By 2006, behavioural changes had created the world's largest decline in new infection rates. But by 2015, large-scale responses to AIDS in Zimbabwe had begun to focus more on medication than on behavioural changes. This paper examines some of the deep...

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 sexual abuse in British national and local newspapers from the end of the First World War until the mid-1970s, seeking to explain why in this period, unlike in the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries, the issue was rarely high on the press...

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

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 of normativity? I will argue that they don’t, by describing psychologists’ attempts to retain authority over the contested terrain of sexuality in recent decades. Since the 1990s, scholars have increasingly claimed that the psychological category of...

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 sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos called its semi-peripheral geo-political position in western Europe, Anglo-American scholars' lack of familiarity with the Portuguese language or a general lack of prominence in social and political history of Iberia as a...

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 narratives of sexual liberation proliferated in the West, the case of Czechoslovakia shows histories of sexuality as more complex and diverse. In the early years of communism building in the 1950s, sex was discussed in terms of love within an egalitarian...

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 as a route to foregrounding silenced and marginalised voices. Feminist oral history in particular has maintained a commitment to hearing voices that challenge hegemonic and androcentric histories. Similarly, historians of sexuality have been keen to...

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

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 University) Justin Bengry (Birkbeck, University of London) Jennifer Evans (University of Hertfordshire) The world of social media offers historians opportunities to find collaborators and colleagues, communicate and uncover new avenues of research, shape...

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 the form of medical treatises; pornography and erotica (broadly defined); and literature (poetry and drama). This paper, part of a larger project on vernacular attitudes to the male body in early modern England, instead draws upon the evidence from...

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

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 (WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand) History of Sexuality Seminar

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