Histsex & Classical Reception seminar + book launch, Feb 28th, Exeter

Dear list members, 

With apologies for cross-posting. Please find details of a forthcoming seminar and book launch at Exeter. 

Sex, Sexuality & Classical Reception seminar + book launch of Sculpture, Sexuality and History

February 28th 2019

3-5pm, followed by drinks 

Syndicate Room B, Building:One, University of Exeter, Streatham Campus

You are warmly invited to join us for a seminar which brings together three early career researchers exploring intersections between the history of sex and sexuality and the reception of the ancient world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Georgina Barker (Edinburgh/Exeter):  "Pigeons and Parrots, Sappho and Cynthia: Elena Shvarts' Recipe for Making the Modern Classical Woman"

Mara Gold (Oxford): "Citizens of Lesbos: Sapphic Code and the Language of Lesbian Desire"

Rebecca Mellor (York): "Measuring the Phallic: Statistical Analysis and the Visuality of Sex"

Papers will be followed by a wine reception to launch Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), edited by Jana Funke and Jen Grove.

No booking required. All welcome! 

An event from the national Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN), the University of Exeter's Centre for Medical History, Classical Receptions Network, Sexual Knowledge Unit and the Rethinking Sexology project.

More details here: http://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/event/sex-sexuality-classical-reception-early-career-event/