SGS events
Forthcoming Events:
Understanding risk in commercial sex markets: The case of men who visit full-service sex workers
Friday 1 Nov 2024 2pm-3pm online (booking required)
How do men who engage with and visit full-service sex workers understand and perceive law enforcement risk associated with it? To what extent do changes in legislation may impact on their willingness to visit service providers? Under what circumstances may clients become ‘accountable active participants’ in commercial sex markets?
Join University of Surrey’s Dr Giulia Berlusconi to learn about the key findings from the Understanding Risk in Commercial Sex Markets study, which she conducted with Dr Luca Giommoni (Cardiff University) and was funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grants scheme. Take part in the Q&A, share your own views and experiences, or just listen to the discussion.
Landmarking Guildford's Queer History
Sat 9 Nov 2024 1pm-3pm
New House Arts Space, GU1 4SQ
Are you up for a bit of queer time travel? This event takes you on an immersive audio treasure hunt to meet your LGBTQIA+ elders.
Walk in the footsteps of lesbian and gender nonconforming icon Anne Lister aka Gentleman Jack, explore the love nest of Edward II. and Piers Gaviston, hear about the tragic story of Alan Turing, and meet Felix Holling, the trans archaeologist who ran Guildford Museum for many years.
After visiting the haunts of these and other figures of Guildford's queer history, come and mingle with the 21st-century queers at New House Art Space. The amazing community organisation Blossom is putting together a creative activity and space for socialising.
The walk will begin at New House Arts Space and is partially guided and partially self-guided through an audio app, so don’t forget to bring headphones and your phone! The walk takes around 1 hour.
This University of Surrey event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 7–16 November 2024. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.
This is a free event but booking is required.
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Recent Events:
'The Day of the Princess': Contemporary Understandings of the Disney Princess Phenomenon Symposium
was held on Wednesday 16th October 2024 (Hybrid)
The Medieval Research Group in collaboration with SGS hosted a research seminar with visiting PhD student Hannah Victoria Johnson (Sorbonne) "Queer Studies and Cognitive Linguistics: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Reading Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Mystical Texts" on Tuesday 30 July 2-3.30pm (in person and via Teams)
SGS Research Showcase: A Historical Journey in Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Research
We were excited to hold an SGS Research Showcase Event on Wednesday, February 21st at 2.00 PM, OAK suite co-hosted by Oscar Hoyle from LGBT Blossom. Members of SGS demonstrated the fantastic range of research we do in SGS and Oscar presented the work LGBT Blossom does.
Programme:
- 2.00. Teresa Pilgrim - Female masculinities and the environment in early mediaeval texts, 700-1000
- 2.15. Lena Mattheis - Queer pronoun use in literature
- 2.30. Katherine Hubbard - History of aversion therapy/queer feminist history in psychology
- 2.45. Chigozirim Miracle Nwaosu - Afro-queerness and migration in Helon Habila's Travellers and Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows
- 3.00. Fabio Fasoli – Voice-based intersectionality, the case of nationality and sexual orientation
- 3.15. Oscar Hoyle - LGBT Blossom
- 3.30. David Griffiths - Intersex storytelling
- 3.45. Giulia Berlusconi - Men who pay for sexual services in England & Wales
- 4.00. final remark