SEXUALITY SUMMER SCHOOL 2018: QUEER LONGING

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, 21st – 25th MAY 2018

We are very excited to announce the invited speakers for the 11th annual Sexuality Summer School. The Sexuality Summer School brings together postgraduates, researchers and international scholars along with artists, performers, filmmakers, and activists to facilitate discussions that speak to contemporary debates in queer and feminist sexuality studies with a clear emphasis on the interdisciplinary study of culture.

Over five days, postgraduates come together with invited speakers, performers, and artists in workshops to discuss key queer and feminist debates in sexuality studies relating to this year’s theme ‘Queer Longing’. These daytime workshops are accompanied by public events, which are open to all.

The Sexuality Summer School 2018 will take place at the SALC Graduate School at the University of Manchester, with public events taking place at cultural and arts centres throughout the city of Manchester, including HOME and the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art.

Registration for the Sexuality Summer School is open to postgraduate taught and research students (Masters and PhD) involved in the study of sexuality. Registration will go live beginning at 9am on 1st March at estore.manchester.ac.uk.

Registration costs £150, which includes the cost of tickets to the public events. The number of places is limited to 40 so book early to avoid disappointment!

To keep up with the latest news regarding the Sexuality Summer School, visit our blog, where you can also see a short video of what to expect: https://sexualitysummerschool.wordpress.com/

You can also keep track using our Facebook  and Twitter.

For inquiries, please email: sexualitysummerschool@gmail.com

Public Events


Monday 21st May 12-2pm

Opening Public Lecture: Scott Herring

Professor of English

Indiana University, Bloomington

Queering the Underworld (2007), Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism (2010), The Hoarders (2014)

Venue: SALC Graduate School, The University of Manchester

Co-sponsored by CIDRAL


Monday 21st May 6-9pm

Film Screening, Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)

Followed by a roundtable discussion

Venue: HOME


Tuesday 22nd May 6-7.30pm

Book Launch and Roundtable Discussion: Clinical Encounters in Sexuality (2016)

with: Noreen Giffney and Eve Watson (eds)

Venue: SALC Graduate School, The University of Manchester


Wednesday 23rd May Time tbc

In Conversation: Holly Hughes with Esther Newton, My Butch Career (forthcoming publication)

Holly Hughes, Performance Artist and Professor; Esther Newton, Cultural Anthropologist (both from University of Michigan)

Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America (1972); Cherry Grove, Fire Island: 60 Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town (1993); Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas (2000)


Thursday 24th May Time tbc

Dialogues on Sexuality and Longing in Chinese Contemporary Art: Exhibition and discussion of work by Shen Xin, Visual Artist

Collaboration with the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art


TBC

Dan Fishback (Helix Queer Performance Network)

New York Performance Artist; Works include Rubble Rubble (2017), The Material World (2012) and thirtynothing (2011).

In collaboration with Superbia

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