Sexuality Summer School 2023: (Up) Against Nature, Sunday 21st – Friday 26th May 2023

Public Events

Public Plenary Lectures
- Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (Director of the Center for Feminist Research and Associate Professor of English, University of Southern California)
- Hal Gladfelder (Department of English, American Studies and Creative Writing, University of Manchester)

Film Screening and Discussion in partnership with HOME
- Sediments (2021, Adrián Silvestre)
- Private View (2022, Sadie Lee, Libro Levi Bridgeman and Julie Dickson)

Performances in Partnership with Contact
- Nando Messias (performance artist, choreographer and Lecturer in Contemporary Performance Practice at Central School for Speech and Drama, London)
- Whiskey Chow (performance artist and Chinese drag king, Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London)
- Ro Robertson (artist based in Cornwall, working with performance, sculpture, assemblage and sound)

The Sexuality Summer School is a week-long event comprised of seminars and workshops for 40 postgraduate students alongside a public events programme open to all. For sample schedules from previous years, please visit our blog, sexualitysummerschool.wordpress.com
Full details to follow there shortly.

Postgraduate Registration

Alongside our public events, which are open to all, we run a closed programme of workshops and seminars for up to 40 postgraduates involved in the study of sexuality in any discipline. 

Registration for the 2023 Sexuality Summer School: (Up) Against Nature will open at 12pm (GMT) on 3rd March 2023. Registration will be £165, which will cover tickets to all the public events, as well as the speaker fees and organisational costs for the events. Registration takes place through the University of Manchester’s online estore page. 

To complete your registration, you must pay your registration fee and submit a short bio (max 150 words) and statement of interest (max 300 words) to [log in to unmask] with the subject ‘SSS 2023 Registration’. Places are awarded on a first come first served basis and slots usually fill up fast. Book early to avoid disappointment.

Bio and Statement

Registration consists of two steps: payment of the £165 registration fee through estore, and submission of your bio and statement of interest. Your bio should include your current institutional affiliation, Masters or PhD programme title, and current research interests. You can find more advice on what to include in your bio here. 

Your statement should answer the following questions:

- How does the Sexuality Summer School theme relate to your research or practice?
- What do you hope to contribute to the Sexuality Summer School?
 
Please submit your bio and statement the same day you pay your registration fee. You may want to prepare these in advance of the registration date on 3rd March. We will be in touch by 31st March at the very latest to confirm your place.

Eligibility

Our events are aimed at current postgraduates (Masters or PhD students) engaged in the study of sexuality in any subject area or discipline, from any institution. We also welcome applicants with backgrounds related to the critical interrogation of gender, sexuality and culture, such as independent scholars, activists, writers, artists or creative practitioners. If this is the case, please explain your interest in and suitability for the Sexuality Summer School in your application statement. Be aware, however, that our workshops and seminars demand familiarity with feminist, queer and trans debates on sexuality and that we ask you to prepare for the week’s activities by reading a syllabus.

We encourage anyone who meets these eligibility criteria from across the world to apply, but please bear in mind that all our sessions will take place in English. The events will take place in person at the University of Manchester, UK – if you are joining us from outside the UK, please check the requirements before you travel.

We reserve the right to refund registration for ineligible applicants – including anyone who does not complete registration by sending us their application statement and bio.  Please do email us if you would like to discuss your application and suitability for the SSS.

Funding

Please be aware, we do not have any funding available for candidates external to the University of Manchester. 

If your postgraduate studies are funded by a research council or similar organisation, we encourage you to contact your funding body to find out what opportunities are available to you. Often funding is available for conference fee or travel costs, and this can be used to cover the registration fee – please contact your funding body for further details.

If your postgraduate studies are funded by your institution or you are a self-funded student, we advise that you contact your department in the first instance to find out what funding opportunities are available to you.

For other funding opportunities, check if your institution subscribes to the Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding, or check if relevant Research Associations or Societies offer conference, travel, or research funding opportunities – some have funding set aside for independent scholars. Applicants from a non-academic background may want to research relevant charities or opportunities like essay competitions that can cover all or part of the registration fee cost. Please get in touch if you need any documentation from the Sexuality Summer School to support your funding claim.

Refunds

Refund requests will not be considered after Monday 10th April.  We will begin to process refunds as soon as possible once this date has elapsed, but please note that this can take a few weeks. 

For any queries, please email [log in to unmask]

Organised by the SSS 2023 Team: 

Professor Jackie Stacey, Dr Sabine Sharp, Dr Janelle Hixon, Millie Lovelock (PhD student), Tasha Pick (PhD student), and Clare Patterson (PhD student)

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