keynes Library,
School of Arts, Supported
by the
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD Wellcome
Trust & BiGS
Sexology and Translation:
SCIENTIFIC & CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN
THE MODERN WORLD, 1860-1930
Programme
Thursday,
14 June 2012
9.00: Coffee and Welcome
Chair: Laura Doan (Manchester University)
9.30-10.00: Birgit Lang (Melbourne), ‘Interdisciplinary Translations of Sexual Knowledge in late nineteenth-century German Literature and Sexology: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Richard von Krafft-Ebing’
10.00- 10.30: Katie Sutton (Melbourne),
‘The Case of the Invert: Cultural Translations of the Sexological Invert in 1920s Germany’
10.30- 11.00: Anna Katharina Schaffner
(University of Kent),‘Cross-Disciplinary Translations: On the Uses of Fiction
as Evidence in Nineteenth-Century Sexological Discourse’
Break
Chair: Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck)
11.30- 12.00: Kate Fisher and Jana Funke (Exeter), ‘Translating the Past: Havelock Ellis as Historian'
11.30- 12.00: Kate Fisher and Jana Funke (Exeter), ‘Translating the Past: Havelock Ellis as Historian'
12.00-12.30: 'Sean Brady (Birkbeck), '“Sexual Inversion” and Continental sexology'
Lunch
Chair: Robert Gillett (Queen Mary, University of London)
2.00-2.30: Chiara Beccalossi (Birkbeck), ‘Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology: a Transnational History (1870-1920)’
2.00-2.30: Chiara Beccalossi (Birkbeck), ‘Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology: a Transnational History (1870-1920)’
2.30- 3.00: Brian James Baer (Kent State University), ‘Translating (Homo)Sexuality in Fin-de-Siècle Russia: Wilde, Weininger and Freud’
Break
Chair: Lisa Downing (University of Exeter/University of Birmingham)
3.30-4.00: Heike Bauer (Birkbeck), ‘Travels Through A World of Difference: Magnus Hirschfeld and the Queer Translations of Sexology’
4.00-4.30: Elizabeth Stephens (Queensland), ‘The Scientific Imaginary: Translations of “Data” between Sexology, Genetics and Eugenics’
6.00 Dinner
Friday,
15 June 2012
9.30 Coffee
Chair: Sasha Roseneil (Birkbeck)
10.00-10.30: Kirsti Bohata (Swansea), ‘Before Sexology: Masquerade, Inversion and Welsh Nationalism in Amy Dillwyn’s Novels and Diaries’
10.30- 11.00: Peter Cryle (Queensland), ‘The Physiology and Psychology
of ‘Frigidity’: French Variations in a Transnational Discourse (1850-1920)’
11.00- 11.30: Natalia Gerodetti (Leeds
Metropolitan), ‘Auguste Forel and Ernst Ruedin: Transnational Discourses on
Sexuality and two eminent Swiss Sexologists’
Break
Chair: Joanne Leal (Birkbeck)
12.00- 12.30: James Wilper (Birkbeck), ‘Xavier
Mayne’s The Intersexes: a History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life: a project in translating Continental
sexology or an effort at constructing a ‘Uranian’ identity and legacy?’
12.30-1.00: Gert Hekma (Amsterdam), ‘The Dutch Reception and Creation of Same-Sexual
Terminologies and Theories’
Lunch
Chair: Julie Peakman (Birkbeck)
2.15-2.45: Liat Kozma (Hebrew University), ‘Writing Sexology in Hebrew
and Arabic in the 1930s: a Comparative Discussion’
2.45-3.15: Ofer Nur (Tel Aviv
University), ‘Understanding or
Misunderstanding? The Kibbutz Movement
Appropriation of Sexological
and Psychoanalytical Literatures in the 1920s and
1930s’
Break
Chair: Jonathan Mackintosh (Birkbeck)
3.45-4.15: Leon Rocha (Cambridge University),’Creating a Canon of “Chinese Sexology”: Ye Dehui’s Shadow of the Double Plum Tree Anthology (1903-1914)'
3.45-4.15: Leon Rocha (Cambridge University),’Creating a Canon of “Chinese Sexology”: Ye Dehui’s Shadow of the Double Plum Tree Anthology (1903-1914)'
4.15-4.45: Michiko Suzuki (Indiana University), ‘Reimagining the
Sexes: Sexology and Feminism in Early
Twentieth-Century Japan’
4.45: Closing Remarks
6.00 Conference
dinner
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