Sexual histories: bodies and desires uncovered
keynote speakers
Professor Joan Cadden, UC Davis, University of California
Joan Cadden studied medieval history and literature before getting a PhD. in the History of Science. Her research on issues relating to gender and sexuality in medieval science and medicine forces her to travel to places like Paris, Rome, and Prague in order to examine manuscripts made in the twelfth through fifteenth centuries, but she is a good sport about such hardships. She has taught at Harvard, the University of Colorado, and Kenyon College but prefers the University of California at Davis for its combination of good conversations among historians, careful attention to the research and professional development of graduate students, and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration in Medieval Studies and Science & Technology Studies. She doesn't mind the fact that it is easy to get to the San Francisco Bay Area and to the mountains.
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Professor Lisa Downing, University of Exeter
Professor Downing is currently Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Exeter. She is also Director of the newly established Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe (CISSGE), in the School of Arts, Languages and Literatures at Exeter. Her research interests include history and theories of sexuality; modern critical theory (psychoanalysis; queer theory; ethics); death studies; nineteenth-century French writing, thought and culture; Decadence and the fin de siècle; cinema theory.
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Professor Philippa Levine, University of Southern California
Professor Levine's most recent work is on race and sexuality in the British Empire, with a particular focus on sexually transmissible diseases and prostitution. She has also published extensively on Victorian feminism and the development of professional history in nineteenth-century Britain. She is now at work on a study of evolution, eugenics and colonialism, as well as a book on the debates around evolutionary theory from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.
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