Fin de Sexe?

Fin de Sexe? A Symposium on Sexuality


A one-day symposium exploring how the concept of 'sex' was theorised at the turn of the 20th century.

Thursday, June 27 · 9am - 6pm GMT+1


50 George Square Lecture Theatre (G.03)University of Edinburgh School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures Edinburgh EH8 9LH United Kingdom



08:30 - 09:00
Registration


09:00 - 10:30
Panel 1 - Fin de Siècle Pornography
Claudio Monopoli (University of Padua, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice and University of Verona); 'From Sickness to Pleasure: Representations of Sexuality between Sexology and Pornographic Photography in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Italy', Jo Brydon-Dickenson (Birkbeck, University of London); 'Pornography and Sexology in the Fashioning of Percy Grainger's Queer Identities', Lea Felicitas Döding; 'Reading Cruelty: Sadomasochism and Literary Culture in Fin de Siècle Germany'


11:00 - 12:00
Panel 2 - Studying Desire
Chair: Ash Jayamohan (University of Edinburgh), Rebecca Boyd (University of Oxford); 'Lesbian Bed (Un)Death: Renée Vivien’s Poetic Necromances', Sheelalipi Sahana (University of Edinburgh); 'Queering the Girls’ School: Being “Crooked” in the 1920-30s'



12:00 - 13:00
Networking lunch


13:00 - 14:30
Panel 3 - Sexological Archive
Chair: Dr Michael Shaw (University of Stirling), Charlie Gough (University of Birmingham); 'George Ives, The Order of Chaeronea, and Homosexual Community at the Fin de Siècle', Domenico Di Rosa (University of Glasgow); 'Queer Pederasty in John Henry Mackay’s Sagitta’s Books of the Nameless Love', Dr Ryan Helterbrand (Ohio State University); 'Hands, Mouths, Bodies: Becoming Queer in France, 1925-1926'


14:45 - 15:45
Panel 4 - Constructing and Questioning
Chair: Claudia Sterbini (University of Edinburgh), Ciara Hervás (University of Cambridge); 'Unruly Forms: Magnus Hirschfeld’s Photographic Reimagination of Sexual Difference', Piers Haslam (University of Cambridge); '‘The Moods of an Epicene’: Bachelorhood and Trans Feelings in Edwardian England'


16:15 - 17:45
Keynote speaker - Professor Heike Bauer (Birkbeck, University of London)
'Animal Lovers'