For some fifty years now, historians have been examining the past through the lens of gender and sexuality. What is the current state of the field? Which are the key axes along which it has evolved and, crucially, what are some of the most promising avenues for its future development? Join us for an informal conversation between scholars and students about new directions in the history of gender and sexuality with Professors Katie Sutton and Annette Timm. This in-person event is organized by GENDER.ED in collaboration with the Histories of Gender and Sexuality Research Group.

Location

Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Doorway 4, Room G.16 (ground floor)

About the Speakers

Katie Sutton (Australian National University) is a specialist in German, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She has recently published a survey of Sexuality in Modern German History (Bloomsbury, 2023) and is currently collaborating on a project about Visual Evidence: Transforming Modern Sex Research (1880s - 1930s). Previously, she published Sex between Body and Mind (U of Michigan Press, 2019) and The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany (Berghahn, 2011).

Annette Timm (University of Calgary) was editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality from 2014 to 2021. She has, among other things, co-authored Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day (Bloomsbury, 2022, 3rd ed.) and Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories (U of Calgary Press, 2021). She has also been commissioned to write The Historiography of Sexuality for Cambridge UP.

Registration

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New Directions in the History of Sexuality and Gender