Saturday, 2 December 2017, 5.30pm Keynes Library Birkbeck School of Arts 43 Gordon Square London WC1 0PD The launch will be preceded at 4.30pm by a public talk by Ashkan Sepahvand, curator of the exhibition Odarodle, which casts a postcolonial perspective on exhibiting sex at the Schwules Museum* Berlin. Free. Reserve a place here.
Have a look at the fantastic 2017-18 programme of the History of Sexuality Seminar at the IHR. Apart from the two public lectures, no booking is required. Just turn up on the day.
SEMINAR SERIES IN THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
2017-18 PROGRAMME
convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre
All seminars take place in the Pollard Seminar Room N301, unless otherwise stated. The Pollard Room is on the third floor of the main IHR building in Senate House.
Tuesday 10 October 5.15pm
The Mythical Sexuality of La Goulue and La Casati
Will Visconti (University of Sydney)
Tuesday 7 November 5.15pm
Redefining “Normal” Child Sexuality: Encounters between Sexologists and Psychoanalysts at the fin de siècle
Katie Sutton (Australian National University)
Wednesday 29 November 6.00pm
Turing in Context: Sexual Offences in Cheshire in the 1950s [public lecture]
Chris Waters (Williams College)
NB: this public lecture takes place at the Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, and is part of the one-day conference Queer Lives Past and Present: Interrogating the Legal. (www.raphael-samuel.org.uk/interrogating-the-legal/ )
Thursday 30 November, 2.00pm
“The Prairies- Coming Out Strong”: Western Canadian Queer Communities, 1969-1985 [public lecture]
Valerie Korinek (University of Saskatchewan)
NB: this public lecture takes place at the Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, and is part of the Queer Localities conference (queerbeyondlondon.com/conference/)
Tuesday 5 December 5.15pm
Rethinking Homology and Analogy of the Sexes in the Historiography of Sexuality
Alison Moore (Western Sydney University)
Tuesday 16 January 5.15pm
Wet-nurses, sexual restrictions and wage labour in Roman Egypt
April Pudsey (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Tuesday 13 February 5.15pm
Lesbian Domesticities: Material structures of same-sex intimacy in post-war Britain and Australia
Rebecca Jennings (UCL)
Tuesday 13 March 5.15pm
Rethinking sexual geography: ‘sexuality’ and European identity, c. 1550-1700
Nailya Shamgunova (University of Cambridge)
Tuesday 15 May 5.15pm
Purring Vaginas and Waggling Penises: Sexting World War One
Nancy Christie (McMaster University)
Tuesday 12 June 5.15pm
The Discovery of Pleasure: Female Sexuality in Italy and West Germany in the long 1970s
Fiametta Balestracci (Queen Mary)
Convenors: Chiara Beccalossi (University of Lincoln), Alison Oram (Leeds Beckett University), Craig Griffiths (Manchester Metropolitan University), Christopher M. Waters (Williams University), Heike Bauer (Birkbeck), Jana Funke (University of Exeter), Julia Laite (Birkbeck), Jane Mackelworth (Queen Mary), Justin Bengry (Goldsmiths), Claire Hayward (Kingston University), Matt Cook (Birkbeck), Sean Brady (Birkbeck), Sarah Toulalan (University of Exeter), Daniel Callwood (Queen Mary), Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck), Tommy Dickinson (King’s College London), Janet Weston (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Daniel Orrells (King’s College London).
Please share widely this call for papers and consider submitting an abstract, suggestions for interviews or indeed your own artwork!
Bodies/Borders in Jewish Women’s Comics
Edited by: Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum, and Sarah Lightman
Scholarship and publications on Jewish women and comics have grown considerably over the last five years. Studies such as the Eisner Award-winning Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews (Lightman 2014), How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses? (Oksman 2016) and our own special issue on “Contemporary Comics by Jewish Women” (Bauer, Greenbaum, Lightman, Studies in Comics 7:2 2015 ) have shown that Jewish women make a significant and varied contribution to contemporary comics.
Prompted by the realization that many Jewish women artists work across national and cultural contexts, and that we have yet to examine more fully how their Jewishness intersects with other forms of identity and identification, we are now inviting contributions to a new collection of essays and interviews on Jewish women’s comics in transnational context. Tentatively titled, Bodies/ Borders in Jewish Women’s Comics, it will bring together scholars and artists to examine comics from a wide range of countries and cultures and present original artwork including work that has not yet been translated into English.
We are in discussion with an academic press. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. We are seeking to publish essays, interviews and artwork.
Essays should focus on Jewish women. Themes might include, but are not limited to:
Interviews
We are eager to publish interviews with Jewish women comic artists from around the world. Please get in touch if you would like to propose an interview.
Artwork
We are especially interested in both original artwork and previously published work that has not yet been translated into English.
Deadline for Abstracts: June 30th, 2017
Send abstracts to: Dr. Andrea Greenbaum, Professor of English, Barry University
agreenbaum@barry.edu
A Violent World of Difference 