SGS events
Forthcoming Event & CFP:
'The Day of the Princess': Contemporary Understandings of the Disney Princess Phenomenon Symposium
Date: Wednesday 16th October 2024
Location: Hybrid! Online presence and in person attendance at the University of Surrey, Stag Hill Campus, UK
Deadline: Friday 2nd August 2024
Please submit your abstract of 300 words by Friday 2nd August 2024: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSceptXj_rFTPEvyJYr9Ny6JnYbb5Cr…
Forthcoming Event: The Medieval Research Group in collaboration with SGS will be hosting 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". This is scheduled for Tuesday 30 July 2-3.30pm (in person in 58AD02 and via Teams)
Recent Event: 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