New Histories of Sexology: Genealogies of Race, Sex, Colonialism

FRIDAY, APRIL 20th 

8:30am: Opening Remarks by Benjamin Kahan & Greta LaFleur

8:45-10:30: Transformations of Sexual Science

• Durba Mitra, “Sexuality and the Question of Comparison”
• Howard Chiang, “Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China”

Respondent: Britt Rusert

[10:30-10:45 Coffee break in WLH 117]

10:45-12:30pm: Ethno-Knowledges

• Benjy Kahan, “Anthropologia Sexualis and the Macro Environments of Sex”
• Dagmar Herzog, “Queering Freud Differently: Radical Psychoanalysis between Anthropology & Antihomophobia in the Era of Decolonization, or: Going to Papua New Guinea in the 1970s.”

Respondent: Ittai Orr

[12:30-1:30  Lunch in WLH 309]

1:30-3:15pm: Sexology without Bodies

• Omnia El Shakry, “Freud in Translation: Three Essays and a Survey in Postwar Egypt”
• Darieck Scott, “Notes on the Fantasist: Thinking with Sedgwick’s Queer Anti-Sexology.”

Respondent: Jill Richards

[3:15-3:30  Coffee break in WLH 117]

3:30pm-5:15pm, Sexology and Colonial Technologies

• Dan Healey, “Race, Ethnicity, Nation? Sexology in the Soviet Union as a Prism of Nationalities Policy.”
• Emma Heaney, “The Condensation of Trans Femininity into the Category of Transsexual.”

Respondent: Beans Velocci

SATURDAY, APRIL 21^st

9:00-10:45am: Sexology and Exchange

• Kadji Amin, Before Transsexuality: Eugenics and Gland Xenotransplantation
• Adrienne Davis, TBD

Respondent: Greta LaFleur

[10:45-11am  Coffee break in WLH 117]

11am-12:45pm: Sexology and Popularization

• Laura Doan, “Historicizing the Public Dissemination of a ‘Scientific’ Knowledge of Sex.”
• Robert Tobin, “Queer Nationalists: The Persistence of Masculinist Thought”

Respondent: Yuhe Faye Wang

12:45-1:00pm: Closing Remarks, Greta LaFleur

[1:00pm - Lunch, WLH 309]