14 June 2002: Childhood and Adolescence

Children's Stories of Sexual Difference
Iain Morland
Associate Lecturer in Culture, Literature and Media, Cardiff University

Delayed Puberty
Paul Chadwick
Clinical Psychologist, St. Mary's Hospital, London

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1 November 2002: Sexual Diversity

Consensual Surgery for Adults with Intersex Conditions: A Solution to What Problem?
Mary Boyle
Professor of Psychology, University of East London

The Stark Impossibility of Thinking That: Cult TV and the Sexing of the Alien Body
Dee Amy-Chinn
Doctoral Candidate in Media Arts, Royal Holloway

How Many Sexes Are There?
Panel debate chaired by Iain Morland

Pamela Church-Gibson
Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Contextual Studies, London Institute

Sarah Creighton
Consultant Gynaecologist, UCL Hospitals Trust

Mandy Merck
Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway

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28 February 2003: Changing Gender Narratives

23 May 2003: Sexual Politics, Sexual Practices

5 November 2003: Sexing the Child

27 February 2004: Psychoanalysis: Time to Sex Down?

30 April 2004: Masculinities

5 November 2004: The Ethics of Embodiment

9 February 2005: What can we Learn from Pornography?

11 May 2005: Dilemmas in Care

15 February 2006: Outness and Sexual Self-Disclosure in Academia and the Clinic

Chaired by Meg Barker

The Closet's Revolving Door
Jeffrey Weeks
Professor of Sociology, LSBU

Inside and Outside of the Dilemma: Perspectives from a Heterosexual Ally, Academician, and Clinician
Kathleen Ritter
Professor of Counseling Psychology, California State University, Bakersfield, and Psychotherapist in private practice

Outing Mandy and Condi
Mandy Merck
Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of
London

Roundtable discussion chaired by Meg Barker
with Jeffrey Weeks, Kathleen Ritter and Mandy Merck

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21 June 2006: Heterosexualities

Chaired by Lisa Downing

The Psychologization of Marriage and the Heteronormativity of High IQ
Peter Hegarty
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Surrey

Why Question Heterosexuality?
Stevi Jackson
Professor and Director, Centre for Women's Studies, Department of Sociology, University of York

On Being Post-Normal : Heterosexuality after Queer Theory
Calvin Thomas
Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Georgia State University

Roundtable discussion chaired by Lisa Downing
with Peter Hegarty, Stevi Jackson and Calvin Thomas

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1 November 2006: Female Genital Mutilation

Chaired by Lih-Mei Liao

Socio-Cultural Aspects of FGM
Efua Dorkenoo
Researcher and Activist; founder, Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development (FORWARD)

Genital Cutting and Bodily Integrity
Iain Morland
Lecturer in Cultural Criticism, Cardiff University

FGM: What Should Care-Providers do now?
Sarah Creighton
Consultant Gynaecologist, UCH & Honorary Senior Lecturer, UCL; Chair, Female Genital Mutilation National Clinical Group, www.fgmnationalgroup.org

Panel debate chaired by Lih-Mei Liao
with the three speakers and:

Amma Kyei-Mensah (Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Whittington Hospital, London)

Haseena Lockhat (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, North Warwickshire NHS Trust)

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28 February 2007: Sexual Subcultures and Discourses of Health and Harm

Chaired by Dany Nobus (Brunel University)

AIDS is not a Disease but a Discourse
Robert Gillett
Senior Lecturer in German, Queen Mary, University of London

Breeding Culture: Barebacking, Bugchasing, Giftgiving
Tim Dean
Professor of English, University at Buffalo SUNY

Beyond Safety: Erotic Asphyxiation and the Limits of SM Discourse
Lisa Downing
Professor and Director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter

Panel debate chaired by Dany Nobus
with the three speakers and:

Martin Baggaley (Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Lead NHS Connecting for Health London)

Darren Langdridge (Lecturer in Social Psychology, Open University)

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26 June 2007: Embodying Femininity

Guest-convened by Paula Reavey (London South Bank University)

Supersexualize Me! Advertising and the midriffs
Ros Gill
Senior Lecturer in Gender Theory and Gender Studies, London School of Economics

Between discourse and embodied experience: Reflections on analysing women’s accounts in feminist post-structuralist research
Helen Malson
Reader in Social Psychology, University of the West of England

Moving within and beyond the surface: young women’s embodied experiences in everyday life
Lilliana Del Busso
PhD candidate, London South Bank University
and
Paula Reavey
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, London South Bank University

Respondent:

Elizabeth Stephens (Research Fellow, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia, and British Academy Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter)

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7 November 2007 : International Approaches to Bisexuality

Organised by Meg Barker
Chaired by Alessandra Iantaffi

Speakers:

Ron Fox (Professor in Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco)
"International Perspectives on Bisexuality: Documenting and Preserving History in the Making"

Matthew Waites (Lecturer in Sociology, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences, University of Glasgow) "Bisexuality, 'Sexual Orientation' and Human Rights: The Global Politics of Sexual Identities"

Clare Hemmings (Senior Lecturer in Gender Theory and Gender Studies, London School of Economics)
"Bisexuality and Queer Transnationalism "

The seminar was preceded by a morning of related events, namely a series of presentations and workshops by and for PhD students and others researching bisexuality.

9.30-11.00 – five 15 minute presentations

Toni Brennan – Charlotte Wolff and the history of bisexual research

Robin Cackett - The Freud-Fliess-Controversy or: Investments in Bisexuality in Early Psychoanalysis

Helen Bowes-Catton – 'Swordfighting, Drag Kings, and Cuddles- Embodying Identity in 'spectacular' bisexual space

Christian Klesse – Personal identities and sexuality research: on reflexivity and positionality

Alex Toft – Bisexual Christians: The Lived Experiences of a Marginalised Community

11.30-1.00

Workshop on the links and tensions between bi academic research and queer theory, bi activism and queer activism. Facilitated by Camel Gupta and Meg Barker

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9 April 2008: 'Extreme' Pornography and Discourses of Censorship

Organised and Chaired by Lisa Downing

Speakers:

Julian Petley (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Brunel University)
"The Dangerous Images Act"

Clarissa Smith (Programme Leader, MA in Media & Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland)
"On Being an apologist for porn"

Alexandra Dymock (SM and feminist activist, Backlash) "
Against the Backlash: Pornography, Power and the Pressure Group"

Martin Baggaley (Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Lead NHS Connecting for Health London)
"Links between extreme pornography and psychiatric disorder - much conjecture but little evidence"

Respondents:

Adeola Agbebiyi (Film and Video Examiner, British Board of Film Classification)

Fiona Handyside (Lecturer in Film, University of Exeter)

Eleanor Wilkinson (Teaching Assistant in Geography, University of Leeds)

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3 September 2008: Intersex: A Disorder of Discourse?

Guest Organised by Iain Morland

Speakers:

Emily Grabham (Research Fellow, AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent)
"Knitting the Nation, Stitching Permanence: Intersex Bodies and the Construction of the Nation in Time"

Iain Morland (Lecturer in Cultural Criticism, Cardiff University)
"Ways of Reading the Intersex Controversy"

Elizabeth Reis (Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies Program, University of Oregon)
"What's in a Name? History, Medicine, and Intersex"

Respondents:

Sarah Creighton (Consultant Gynaecologist, UCL Hospitals Trust)

Lih-Mei Liao (Clinical Psychologist, UCL Hospitals Trust)

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12 November 2008: Non-Monogamies

Organised by Meg Barker

Speakers:

Eleanor Wilkinson (Teaching Assistant, School of Geography, University of Leeds)
"What's Queer about Non-monogamy now?"

Meg Barker (Lecturer in Psychology, Open University)
"New Research in Non-Monogamies "

Dee McDonald (PhD candidate, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex)
"Why Do We Do It? A Critical Look at why People Swing?"

Respondents:

Esther Saxey (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Darren Langdridge (Open University)

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23 January 2009: Agency

Organised by Meg Barker

Speakers:

Y. Gavriel Ansara (MSc Student, Dept. of Psychology University of Surrey; Director Emeritus, Lifelines, Rhode Island; Speaker on Muliticultural Issues, OII)
"Making the cut: The production of disorder and the excision of trans, pangender and intersex patient autonomy"

Virginia Braun (Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
"'The Patient tells me what she wants': Rhetoric of choice and agency in female genital 'cosmetic surgery' discourse"

Alex Dymock (Indepedent scholar and BDSM/ feminist activist, Backlash)
"Taken in Hand?: BDSM, women and the post-feminist masquerade"

Respondents:

Caroline Walters, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter

Ms Christina Richards, West London Mental Health NHS Trust (Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic)

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3rd April 2009: Method, Ethics and Process in Sex Research

Guest-organised by Petra Boynton

Speakers:

Petra Boynton (Lecturer in Psychology, UCL)
"Methodological issues in sex research, therapy and education"

Teela Sanders (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Leeds) "Ethics and research on sex and sensitive issues"

Charlie Murphy (Artist)
"Processes of making the kissing casts: 'An experiment in kissing'"

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25th September 2009" 'Queer in Europe'

A session organised by Robert Gillett and Lisa Downing

Speakers:

Dr Bart Eeckhout (Senior Lecturer, English Studies, Universities of Ghent and Antwerp, Belgium)
"'Whad'you Talkin' about?': Ignorance, Goodwill, Compromise in 'Queer' Belgian Activism"

Dr Chrysanthi Nigianni (Visiting Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London)
"Continental Queerness: the Molecular Revolution of Becoming-Minoritarian"

Dr Antoine Rogers (Senior Lecturer, Social and Policy Studies, London South Bank University)
"In this our Lives: An Exploration of Black Gay Sexual Identity"

Respondents:

Dr James Agar (French and European Studies, University College, London, UK)

Alison Bancroft (Cultural Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

Andrea von Kameke (Media Studies and Queer/ Gender Studies, ICI, Berlin, Germany)

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