Dear Colleagues,
 
Please find attached (and below) the flyer for the second sexgen seminar: Seminar 2: April 24th 2014, The Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds: ‘Cultural Praxis and the Reimagining of Gendered and Sexual Lives’, 1-6pm.
 
The event is free but places are limited so early registration required. 
 
To register for the seminar please email Sally Hines: [log in to unmask]
 
*Please note: This will run alongside the BSA Conference, which will be held at the University of Leeds April 23-25th 2014.
 
'sexgen' is a collaborative interdisciplinary network bringing together gender and sexuality based research centres around the North of England. We aim to bring academic research, writing and thinking on gender and sexuality into conversation with the ideas, cultural expressions and knowledges of community groups, cultural sites and activist organisations. Series organising contacts are: Sally Hines (Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds: [log in to unmask] and Surya Monro (Centre for Research in Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield: [log in to unmask]
 
We would be grateful if you could publicize 'sexgen' amongst your networks.
 
We look forward to seeing you at future events.
 
With best wishes,
Sally Hines and Surya Monro

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Programme
Sexgen Seminar 2: Cultural Praxis and the Reimagining of Gendered and Sexual Lives 
Thursday 24th April 2014
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds
1.00-6.00 p.m.

This seminar will explore the role of community generated (sub)cultural forms and practices on understandings and practices of gender and sexuality. By drawing on a range of cultural mediums, including film, photography and performance, the seminar will foreground cultural processes as mediums through which to re-imagine possibilities of living gendered and sexual lives.   

Arrivals and coffee (13.00-13.30)

Session One (13.30 - 15.15): 

Sally Hines (University of Leeds): Beyond Liberation and Loss: Retelling gendered and sexual stories through a cultural politics of difference

Alison Rooke (Goldsmiths): From the Spectacular to the Everyday: The public issues and private troubles of queer lives

Caroline Walters (Middlesex University): Moustached Femme: Expanding Genderqueer and Femininity

Break (15.15-15.30)

Session Two (15.30-17.15): 

Alexa Athelstan(University of Leeds): Reimagining Gender?: intersectional approaches to queer femininities  

Sara Davidmann (Goldsmiths) Ken. To be destroyed

Jason Barker (London-based Filmmaker): The Millennium Man and other stories

Discussion and close (17.15-18.00)