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First “Critsex in the Midlands” event – 14 February 2014 – “Rethinking Foucault”

http://www.criticalsexology.org.uk

We are pleased to announce the first “Critical Sexology in the Midlands” event, to be held at the University of Birmingham, on Friday 14th February 2014.

RETHINKING FOUCAULT FOR 21ST-CENTURY SEXUALITY STUDIES

Organized by Lisa Downing

2-6pm
Lecture Theatre 7, Strathcona Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Directions and campus maps here: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/contact/directions/index.aspx

Speakers:
Dr Romana Rosalie Byrne (PhD graduate of School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia, author of the forthcoming book, Aesthetic Sexuality, which will be publicized at the event)
“Foucault’s Elusive ars erotica and the Case of Aesthetic Sexuality”

Dr Oliver Davis (Associate Professor, French Studies, University of Warwick)
Provisional title: “Foucault Tomorrow: Codicil for a Queer Pharmatopia”

Dr Emma Foster (Lecturer in International Politics and Gender, University of Birmingham)
Provisional title: “Foucault, Sexuality, and Sustainable Development”

Respondent:

Prof. Lisa Downing (author of The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault, 2008, and Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality, University of Birmingham)

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The interdisciplinary Critical Sexology seminar series is co-organized by Lisa Downing, Meg Barker and Robert Gillett.

Critical Sexology seminars are free and open to all. There is no need to register your intention to attend with the organizers.