DESIRING STATUES: STATUARY, SEXUALITY, HISTORY.
26th - 27th April 2012
Supported by the Wellcome Trust, at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
'A sculpture of Hermaphroditus'. Steel engraving by Jean-Baptiste Bourgois, 1808, after 'The Hermaphrodite' in the Louvre Source: Wellcome Images
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to investigate how statuary intersects with questions of sexuality, and temporality, specifically history. It explores the numerous different ways in which statues – as historical and/or imagined artefacts – allow us to think about the past and its relation to sex, gender and sexuality.
The conference brings together contributors from a variety of disciplines, including history, gender and sexuality studies, literary and cultural studies, art history, classics, archaeology and philosophy.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Stefano-Maria Evangelista (University of Oxford)
Dr Ian Jenkins (British Museum)
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