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Schedule

All Monday/Wednesday Institute sessions are 1-4 pm and are by invitation only.  If you are interested in attending please email Douglas Haynes or Veronika Fuechtner 

Monday July 1 - Start of the Institute

3.30 - 6pm: Introductions and Coffee

Tuesday, July 2  - Public Conference Keynote speakers  - Haldeman 041 - Free and open to all

4 - 5.30pm : Heike Bauer (University of London, UK)  "Travels Through a World of Difference: Magnus Hirschfeld and the Queer Narratives of Modern Sex Research"

5.45-7.15pm :Jana Funke/Kate Fisher (University of Exeter, UK) 5.45-7.15: "Encountering the Past: Global Histories and the Interdisciplinary Culture of Sexual Science"

Keynote Dinner

Wednesday July 3 - Institute Session with Preparatory Readings

Thursday July 4  - Institute BBQ

Monday July 8  - Institute Session/Fellow Presentation:

Pablo Ben (San Diego State University) "Global Modernity and Sexual Science: The Case of Male Homosexuality and Female Prostitution, 1880-1950"

Wednesday July 10  - Institute Session/Fellow Presentation:

Chiara Beccalossi (Oxford Brookes University, UK) "The Making of Sexual Norms: Latin Eugenics across the Atlantic, c. 1919-1946"

Monday July 15  - Institute Session/Fellow Presentation:

Rainer Herrn (Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Charité, Germany) "Magnus Hirschfeld's View to and from Abroad: Japan's Onnagat"

Tuesday July 16 - Public Talk  Haldeman 041  - Free and open to all: VIA SKYPE:

Michiko Suzuki (Indiana University) "The Science of Sexual Difference: Havelock Ellis, Ogura Seizaburō and Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Feminism"

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO UNAVOIDABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, DR. SUZUKI WILL NOT BE ON CAMPUS IN PERSON BUT WILL BE PRESENTING VIA SKYPE FROM JAPAN.

Wednesday July 17  - Institute Session/Fellow Presentation: Rachel Hsu (Tunghai University, Taiwan) "A Controversial Modernity: Victorian Sexuality, Havelock Ellis, and China's New Sexual Morality"

Monday July 22 - Institute Session/Fellow Presentation:

Rebecca Hodes (University of Cape Town, South Africa) "Science, race and 'sexual aberration' in South African medicine, c. 1880 – 1950"

Tuesday July 23 - Public Talk  Haldeman 041 - Free and open to all

Mark McLelland (University of Wollongong, Australia) "Takahashi Tetsu and the impact of popular sexology in early postwar Japan (1945-70)"

Wednesday July 24  - Institute Session/Fellow Presentation: Angie Willey (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) "Islam and the Making of Sexology: Coupling and nationalism in Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis"

Thursday July 25 - Public Talk  Haldeman 041 - Free and open to all

Ralph Leck (Indiana State University) "Westermarck's Morocco: Sexology, Orientalism, & the Politics of Cultural Anthropology"

Monday July 29 -  Institute Session/Fellow Presentation:

Mike Dietrich (Dartmouth College) "Experimenting with Sex: Narratives of Balance, Reversal, and Strength in Japan and Europe Before the Second World War"

Tuesday July 30 - Public Talk Haldeman 041 - Free and open to all 

Jill Smith (Bowdoin College) "Berlin's Institute of Sexual Science in Exile: Ludwig Levy-Lenz in Cairo"

Wednesday July 31 - Institute Session/Fellow Presentation:

Ryan Jones (Colby College) "Homosexuality and the Development of Mexican Sexology"

Thursday August 1 -  Public Talk  Haldeman 041 - Free and open to all

Robert Tobin (Clark University) "Sexology in the Southwest: Medical Opinions on a Sodomy Case in the German Colonies"

Monday August 5 - Institute Session/Fellow Presentation:

Ishita Pande (Queen's University, Canada) "Sexology, the Education of Desire and the Conduct of Childhood in Late Colonial India"

Wednesday August 7  - Institute Session/Fellow Presentation:

Douglas Haynes (Dartmouth College) and Shrikant Botre (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) "Explaining R.D. Karve's Philosophy of Sexual Science:  Women's Reform, Anti-Brahminism and Debates over Male Sexuality in Western India, 1925-1940"

Veronika Fuechtner (Dartmouth College) "Agnes Smedley between Berlin, Bombay and Beijing: Sexology, Communism and National Independence"

Thursday August 8  - Public Talk  Haldeman 041 - Free and open to all

Kirsten Leng (Northwestern University) "Negotiating Sexology and Subjectivity in Exile: Max Marcuse in Palestine/ Israel, 1933-1963"

Monday August 12 - Institute Session/Fellow Presentation:

Sanjam Ahluwalia (Northern Arizona University)"Global Origins of Sexology: A Perspective from India"

Tuesday August 13 -  Public Talk Donna Haldeman 041 - Free and open to all 

Drucker (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) "The Machines of Sex Research: Gender and the Politics of Identity, 1945–1985"

Wednesday August 14  - Institute Session/Fellow Presentation:

Kurt MacMillan (University of California, Irvine) "Assessing the Impact of Gregorio Marañón's Theory of Intersexuality in Chile, 1926-1941"

Thursday August 15  - Institute Session/Fellow Presentation, then Party:

Lisa Perez (Dartmouth College) "From 'Impersonators' to 'Queens': Transgender/Transsexual Self-Representation in the United States to1980."

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