Preliminary Programme

Showing: Sexuality (all days)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 23 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
F-1 SEX13 Sex and `the Other' in Germany and Britain during and after the Second World War
Elise Richtersaal first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Christa Hämmerle
Organizers: - Discussant: Peter Becker
Lucy Bland : Interracial Relationships and the ‘Brown Baby’ Problem: Black GIs, White British Women and their Mixed Race Offspring in 2nd World War Britain
Elissa Maïlander : For Better or Worse? Narratives of Divorce in Germany, 1945 – 1951
Cornelie Usborne : Sleeping with the Enemy. German Women and Prisoners of War in the Second World War


P-1 SEX01 Biography and Sexuality in the Twentieth Century: Methodological Problems for the Historian
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Geertje Mak
Organizer: Mark Cornwall Discussant: Geertje Mak
Mark Cornwall : Conflating Homosexuality and Treason: the Case of Colonel Redl
Dan Healey : What Goes on Tour: the Queer Diary of Soviet Singer Vadim Kozin
Clare Tebbutt : Diagnosing Absence: the Risks of Using Medical Case Studies as Biography
Theo Van Der Meer : Constructing a Biography of Pieter Meertens



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
P-2 SEX03 Science, Sexuality, and Transnational Circulation in the 20th Century
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Sarah Marks
Organizers: Teri Chettiar, Kirsten Leng Discussants: -
Teri Chettiar : Stable Families and the Making of “World Citizens”: on the Post-1945 Transnational Circulation of Marriage Counseling
Kirsten Leng : Practicing Sexology in Exile: the (Im)possibilities of Creating Viable Lives and Knowledges After Emigration
Noemi Willemen : Liberating the Paedophile (1970-1990): a Discursive Analysis



Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
P-3 SEX07 An Era of Liberation? The 1960s and 1970s
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Martin Gössl
Organizers: - Discussant: Martin Gössl
Karla Bessa : Soft Porn and Seduction by Humour. A Transnational Way to mix Sex and Comedy in Film
Lena Lennerhed : Sex and Politics. The Swedish Debate on Wilhelm Reich in the 1960´s and 1970´s
Kari Nordberg : Between Sexual Radicalism and Christianity: Norwegian Sex Education in the 1970s



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
P-4 SEX02 Children, Sex, Crime and Violence
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Dan Healey
Organizers: - Discussant: Dan Healey
Stacey Hynd : Forced Marriage and Sexual Slavery among Girl Soldiers in African Conflicts, c. 1980-2010
Sarah Toulalan : Children Raping Children? Boys and Child Rape in Early Modern England



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
P-5 SEX04 Sexology and Sexual Science in Europe’s East
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Eva Schäffler
Organizer: Katerina Liskova Discussant: Eva Schäffler
Agnieszka Koscianska : Against Medicalization and Commodification. Sexology in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s
Katerina Liskova : Sex between the Public and Private. Expert Discourses on Sexuality in Communist Czechoslovakia.
Hadley Renkin : The Sexual Science of European Difference : Hungarian Sexual Modernity at the fin-de-siècle



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
L-6 SEX05a The Cultural Mobility of Sexual Liberation I
Hörsaal 31 first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Karla Bessa
Organizer: Agnes Andeweg Discussant: Karla Bessa
Agnes Andeweg : Literary Motors? How Literature Helped Shape the Dutch National Self-image as Sexually Liberated
Christopher Ewing : Desiring Men: Art, Erotica, and the Making of Homosexual Masculinities in West Germany, 1949-1983
David Minto : Insult, Indecency, and the British Invasion in the Making of the US Homophile Movement


Z-6 MID03 Morality, Law and Sexual Behaviour in the (late) Medieval City
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Middle Ages , Sexuality Chair: Tineke Van de Walle
Organizer: Tineke Van de Walle Discussant: Peter Stabel
Anke De Meyer : The Perception of Women as Active or Passive Contributors in Conjuring up an Honourable Society in Late Medieval Letters of Remission
Jelle Haemers : Sex and Politics in the City: about Insults in Late Medieval Flanders
Jonas Roelens : Sodomy and Citizenship. The Repression of Same-sex Acts within Different Social Groups in Late Medieval Southern Netherlandish Society
Claire Weeda : Sex as Preventative Medicine in Late Medieval Cities



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
L-7 SEX05b The Cultural Mobility of Sexual Liberation II
Hörsaal 31 first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Agnes Andeweg
Organizer: Agnes Andeweg Discussant: Agnes Andeweg
Henk de Smaele : “On a Five-Foot Bookshelf”: Literary Same-sex Plots and the Science of Homosexuality (c. 1950-1975)
Franz Eder : National and International Images of Sexual Liberation in the German Speaking Countries (1950s to 1970s)
Eir-Anne Edgar : Day Tripper: Suburban Swingers
Bart Eeckhout : Coming after the Transnational Commuter James Baldwin: Sexual Liberation's Troubled Relation with Queer Questions of Home and Futurity


P-7 WOM07 Gender, Political Violence and Narratives of the Self in the 20th Century
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Marianna Georgievna Muravyeva
Organizers: - Discussant: Dagmar Ellerbrock
Irene Bandhauer-Schoeffmann : The Burden of being a Son: Narratives of an Abduction Victim’s Son
Clare Bielby : Narrating the Politically Violent Self: Masculinity and Violence in Post-Terrorist Life Writing in the Federal Republic of Germany
Vandana Joshi : The Holy Ghost, the Sleeping Beauty and the Prince Charming: Soldiers’ Reflections on State Violence perpetrated on their sexually deviant Wives
Stephanie Yuhl : Gendered Invisibility, the Construction of Public Memory, and Homelessness: Militarized U.S. Women from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
N-9 SEX14 Politics of Sexuality in the 70's
Hörsaal 33 first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Nathalie Le Bouteillec
Organizer: Virginie De Luca Barrusse Discussant: Wannes Dupont
Sylvie Burgnard : The Sex Education of Children and Adolescents in Geneva in the 1970’s
Antoine Idier : Gay Liberation and Pedophilia in Post 68 France
Mariette Le Den : Standards of Motherhood: from Young Mothers to Single Mothers in the 70's


P-9 SEX09 Defining Female Sexualities
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Kirsten Leng
Organizers: - Discussant: Kirsten Leng
Jean-Noël Castorio : The Messalina Complex / Le complexe de Messaline
Tamara Chaplin : Lesbopolis: Bagdam Cafée and Lesbian Life in Toulouse, 1970 to the present
Julie Gammon : The 'Female-Husband' in 18th Century England
Riikka-Maria Pöllä : Madame de Sévigné & Ninon de Lenclos: Possibility to Take Control of Their Own Sexuality?



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
P-10 SEX08 Medical Narratives and Institutions
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Lena Lennerhed
Organizers: - Discussant: Lena Lennerhed
Jens Rydström : A Dire Strait: Why is there such a Difference in Danish and Swedish Attitudes to Sex and Disability?
Martin Scheutz, Alfred Stefan Weiss : Sexuality as an Aspect of Hospital Life in the Early Modern Era - Normal or Exception?
Janet Weston : 'He alleged he Could not Control Himself': Normal or Abnormal, Curable or a Hopeless Case? Diagnosing and Treating the Sexual Offender in Mid-twentieth Century England



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
P-11 SEX10 Policing Vice: Legal and Political Discourses
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: Tone Hellesund
Organizers: - Discussant: Tone Hellesund
Wannes Dupont : More than Mere Technicalities. The Importance of National Legal Traditions for the Historiography of (Homo)Sexuality
Marie-Amelie George : From Sexual Psychopath to Deviant Sodomite: The Transition from Sexual Psychopath Legislation to the Decriminalization of Sodomy in America
Anita Kurimay : Nazi Inspirations and the Fate of Homosexuals in Hungary, 1933-1945
Hallie Lieberman : “Curing the Sexual Wrecks of Humanity”: the Marketing of Sex Toys in the 19th Century



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
W-12 WOM16 Embodied Gender
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova
Organizers: - Discussant: Bettina Brandt
Sylvie Perrier : From Roman Law to Early Modern French Law : Legal Ideas About the Womb and Their Evolution
Natalia Pushkareva : The Depiction of the Female Mouth in Russian Literary and Visual Sources of the 12th through the 20th Centuries: a Feminist Interpretation
Emma Rees : Vulvanomics: How we Talk about Vaginas
Helena Tolvhed : New Femininities and Masculinities in the Health and Exercise Discourse from 1970



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
P-13 SEX12 Christianity and Sexuality
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: David Paternotte
Organizers: - Discussant: David Paternotte
Emily Johnson : Sacred and Sinful: Sex, Gender, and Women's Leadership in the New Christian Right
Emilia Musumeci : The Myth of Purity and the Female Honour in Italy: from Rehabilitating Wedding to Honour Killing
Joseph Plaster : Vanguard Revisited: Ritual and Queer World Making in San Francisco’s Tenderloin



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
P-14 SEX11 Constructing and Preserving Queer Pasts: Archives, Communities and Activists
SR 1 Geschichte first floor
Network: Sexuality Chair: David Minto
Organizers: - Discussant: David Minto
Tone Hellesund : Establishing a Queer Historical Archive in Norway
David Paternotte : Transnationalising Lesbian and Gay Activism: The Birth of the International (Lesbian and) Gay Association (IGA-ILGA)
Riikka Taavetti : Remembering and Forgetting Queer Pasts in the Archives


ZA-14 WOM01 Travel Reports: Transnational Journeys for Abortion Services
Hörsaal 24 basement
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Marianna Georgievna Muravyeva
Organizer: Christabelle Sethna Discussant: Massimo Perinelli
Hayley Brown : The Trans-Tasman Abortion Travel Service: Abortion Services for New Zealand Women
Gayle Davis : Shopping, Lotteries and Tourism: an Intra-Regional History of Abortion in Britain
Sheelagh McGuinness : A Long Way From Tipperary: the Impact of Travel for Abortion Services on Irish Women
Christabelle Sethna : A Stitch in Time: From the Abortion Caravan to the Radical Handmaids in Canada



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
L-15 WOM20 Productions of Moral Boundaries
Hörsaal 31 first floor
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Jens Rydström
Organizers: - Discussant: Gunnel Karlsson
Anita Brady : Kissing as Politics: Marriage Equality Campaigns and the Production of “the Kiss”
Massimo Perinelli : Revolutionary Sex in 1960's Sexual Revolution
Julia Roth : Economies of Desire: North-South Sex Tourism as "Another Side of Transnationality"


ZA-15 URB08 Gender, Sexuality and the City
Hörsaal 24 basement
Networks: Sexuality , Urban Chair: Anita Kurimay
Organizers: - Discussant: Anita Kurimay
Deborah S. Bernstein, Delila Amir & Hila Shamir & Nomi Levenkron : Prostitution in Tel-Aviv and Jaffa from the Beginning of the 20th Century
Daniel F. Brandl-Beck : Berlin from Behind: a History of “Gay” Travel to Inter-war Berlin
Leslie Choquette : The Origins of Lesbian and Gay Commercial Culture in the French Third Republic
Simon Jenkins : Segregated Spaces, Isolated Types: Social Geographies and Spatial Narratives of Prostitution in Cardiff, c.1885-c.1950
Charlotte Wildman : Women of the Underworld: Gender, Crime and Urban Spectacle 1918-1939


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