Sexgen Seminar 2: Cultural Praxis and the Reimagining of Gendered and Sexual Lives

This seminar will foreground cultural processes as mediums through which to re-imagine possibilities of living gendered and sexual lives.

By drawing on a range of cultural mediums, including film, photography and performance, the seminar will foreground cultural processes as mediums through which to re-imagine possibilities of living gendered and sexual lives.   

Programme

Arrivals and coffee (13.00-13.30)

Session One (13.30 - 15.15):

Sally Hines (University of Leeds): Beyond Liberation and Loss: Retelling gendered and sexual stories through a cultural politics of difference

Alison Rooke (Goldsmiths): From the Spectacular to the Everyday: The public issues and private troubles of queer lives

Caroline Walters (Middlesex University): Moustached Femme: Expanding Genderqueer and Femininity

Break (15.15-15.30)

Session Two (15.30-17.15):

Alexa Athelstan (University of Leeds): Reimagining Gender?: intersectional approaches to queer femininities 

Sara Davidmann (Goldsmiths) Ken. To be destroyed

Jason Barker (London-based Filmmaker): The Millennium Man and other stories

Discussion and close (17.15-18.00)

The event is free but places are limited so early registration required.

To register for the seminar please email Sally Hines.

Please note: This will run alongside the BSA Conference, which will be held at the University of Leeds April 23-25th 2014.