Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network
BSSN
What is BSSN?
The Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network (BSSN) is an inter-university research network aimed at supporting research and researchers who work on issues of human sexuality within the Universities of Brighton and Sussex and the wider Sussex area.Resources / Archives
Resources and archives of information and events
| Date | Place | Title | Notes |
| Friday 31 August, 2-5pm | University of Brighton, Grand Parade Boardroom Brighton BN2 0JY |
LGBT Rights in Europe: A search for common solutions | European Alternatives would like to invite you to participate to a citizens' consultation in Brighton on the topic of LGBT rights. |
| 18 February 2011 | King's College London | Queer@King's presents... Sexuality and the Archive: A Colloquium on Method |
This one-day meeting will explore the history of sexuality from the perspective of the archive and archival practice. |
| 11-12 February 2011 | Brighton | 18th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference | The theme for the conference is Revolting: Bodies, Politics & Genders Deadline for registration is 14th January ! |
| Saturday 4 December 2010, 9.30am - 6.00pm | Falmer Campus, University of Brighton | Archives and the Politics of History and Memory | The centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories are holding this one-day symposium. Registration deadline is 24th November 2010 |
2 October - 14 November 11am - 6pm (Tue Sun) |
Lighthouse, Brighton |
Preview: 01 October 2010, 6.00pm | |
| 15 October 2010 | Lighthouse, Brighton |
Queer Pecha Kucha Night Brighton Vol.9 | |
Sunday 3 October 2010 |
Lighthouse, Brighton |
Talking About Queer Pictures | In conversation Molly Landreth and Dr Catherine Harper |
| 15 September 2010 | Jurys Inn, Brighton | BSSN Annual Conference 2010 in conjunction with ‘Count Me In Too’ | |
| 13 - 15 September 2010 | Monash Centre in Prato, Italy |
Symposium on "Transgression and Discipline in the History of Sexuality" |
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| 11 July to 6 August 2010 | Graduate School of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam | 14th Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society | |
2nd July 2010 |
Lancaster University |
Gender, Sexuality and Adult friendship | One day conference. Call for papers |
| 18th-20th June 2010 | The Edward James Foundation, West Dean College, Chichester, West Sussex | "Surrealism Laid Bare", Biennial Conference | Querying Surrealism / Queering Surrealism |
| June 10 - 11 2010 | University of Sussex | Dissident Citizenship: Queer Postcolonial Belonging | Call for papers deadline is 31st December |
| 28 May 2010 | University of Sussex | The Big Gaydar Workshop | |
| 18 May 2010 at 6:30pm | Chowen lecture theatre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School | Followed by refreshments | |
| Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th May 2010 | Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy | ||
29-30 April 2010 |
Westminster University | ||
26 - 29 March 2010 |
The Tate | A series of screenings and discussions | |
| Friday 19th + Saturday 20th March 2010 | Dublin City University | Sexuality Conference Self, Selves and Sexualities | 2 day conference on human sexuality |
Thursday 18 March 2010 |
Old Anatomy Theatre, Strand Campus, King’s College London |
Reconsidering the Closet, an evening symposium honouring the life and work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. |
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| Tuesday 16 March 12-2pm |
University of Sussex, BH-257 | Post-graduate, postdoc, associate tutor and faculty pre-conference reading group: Dissident citizenship, academia and activism | |
Sunday 7 March, 3.30 pm |
Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, London, WC1 | with Michele Aaron and David Schneer (part of Jewish Book week 2010) | |
| March 5 2.00 pm - 6.00 pm |
Venue: Room 2, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile |
Critical Sexology Seminar: 'Sex Blogging, Gender, and Sexual Subcultures' |
Organised and chaired by Lisa Downing |
| Tuesdays at 1pm January 19 - March 9 |
Silverstone Building, Room 317, University of Sussex | NGender Seminars | See PDF for details of each seminar |
Thursday 18 February |
Room K2.29 ('Council Room'), King's building, Strand campus, King’s College London |
Seminr from Oliver Davis (University of Warwick) |
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| January 13 | Wednesday 13 January, 7-9pm, SOAS, Khalili lecture Theatre | Technologies of Violence and Control: Performing Arab Queer Communities Online | Jointly Presented by the SOAS Centre for Gender Studies and the SOAS LGBT Society |
| Friday 13 November 09 | Royal Society of Medicine | Disability, sex, relationships and pleasure | A joint conference with the Sexual Health and Disability Alliance |
| 23 October | Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen | LGBT LIVES: THE BIOGRAPHIES AND LIFE COURSE OF SEXUAL/GENDER DISSIDENTS | Delegates are invited to register for the third of four seminars designed to explore life course and biographical approaches to sexual and gender dissidence. Attendance at the seminars is free but places are limited so please register in good time. |
| 1 October | University of Sussex | Raising awareness of sexual health research is the aim of a one-day conference being held in Brighton in October. | |
| 25th September | University of London | A session organised by Robert Gillett and Lisa Downing as part of the "Queer in Europe" project. |
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| 24th September | University of Brighton | 1 day conference + social event in the evening. Conference Programme |
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| 25th August 2009 | Manchester, UK | One Day Conference Workshop on Sexualities in/of the Global South | The one-day workshop on sexualities in/of the Global South precedes the annual Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers conference |
| Wednesday 19th August 12 noon | Institute of Development Studies (IDS), room 254, University of Sussex |
Men who have sex with men in Ethiopia and Men Loving Men in Uganda - short and informal presentations on work in progress by IDS Visiting Fellows Getnet Tadele and Chris Dolan. |
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| 21st July | Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex | Why is development work so straight? And what can we do about it? | one-day workshop |
| 15-17 July 2009 | Istanbul, TURKEY | EOI 2009 Conference: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Times of Crises |
EOI 2009 Conference will take place at Bosphorus University (Istanbul), one of the foremost academic institutions in Turkey |
| 1st July | Palace of Westminster, Room CR19 | Invitation to a parliamentary event on Sexuality and Development | ‘Strange Bedfellows? Sex and International Development’ |
22nd May, 2009 |
University of Brighton, Grand Parade |
A one day workshop | |
| 22nd May, 1-2.30pm |
IDS room 119, University of Sussex | IDS Seminar: "Cleavage on the Queer Body: Light, Law and a Politics of Ambiguity" | Akshay Khanna, University of Edinburgh |
| Wednesday, May 20th at 4pm | University of Sussex, EDB 341/EDB315 | The Queer Uncanny and Queer Twins | Olu Jenzen and Sherri Foster |
| 17 - 21 May 2009 |
The University of Manchester | Sexuality Summer School Performing Queerness |
Registration |
| May 12th 2009 | Glasgow University | LGBT LIVES: THE BIOGRAPHIES AND LIFE COURSE OF SEXUAL/GENDER DISSIDENTS |
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| Wednesday, May 6th at 4pm | University of Sussex, EDB 341/EDB315 | Visualising Queer Mental Health: A LGBT photography project in Brighton. | Dr Katherine Johnson |
| 22 April 2009, 3-5pm | University of Manchester |
Three speakers (Laura Doan, Manchester ; Kaye Wellings, LSHTM; Brian Heaphy, Manchester ) introduce the methodological approach they have taken to researching sexualities. Followed by discussion and debate from participants. | |
| 17-18 April | Law Society of Ireland in Dublin | 'Transforming Attitudes' - A Transgender Human Rights Conference and Educational Seminar |
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| 3-4 April 2009 | University of Westminster, London, UK | GENDER FUTURES LAW, CRITIQUE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SOMETHING MORE |
Plenary speakers: Dean Spade, Andrea Smith, Nivedita Menon, Rosemary Hennessy, Emily Grabham, Lisa Adkins |
| 14th January to 25th March | Queen Mary, University of London | QUORUM: Seminars in Performance Research Department of Drama | Seminars held on a Wednesday |
| Friday 13th March 2009 9:30-5pm |
University of Sussex EDB 121 |
Queer Spiritualities one day conference | Presentations by the 'Queer Spiritual Spaces' Research Group |
| 28th January to 11th March | Assorted locations: New York, Brighton, Paris, Liverpool |
QUEORY: Seminars Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence & Cultural Change |
Seminars held on a Wednesday |
Tuesday 10th March, 2009 |
Chowen lecture theatre, BSMS. University of Sussex | Was your granny safe in bed? The sexual history of 20th-century Britain | Speaker: Professor Anne Johnson, UCL |
| February 2009 | The Petrie Museum Univerity College London, Malet Street, WC1E 6BT |
LGBT History Month 2009 at the Petrie Museum. | Free talks on 5th and 26th February |
| Tuesday 20 January, 5:15pm | room 1B29, Strand building, Strand campus | queer discipline / a research seminar on queer studies and interdisciplinarity | '"It's So Straight": Queerying the Homophobic Bullying Agenda' Daniel Monk (Law, Birkbeck) |
| Wednesday 17th December 2008 at 5.30pm | Friends Meeting House, Ship St, Brighton. | Count Me In Too – Launch event: Bi & Trans Additional Findings Reports |
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| 10 December 6-8pm |
University of Brighton | Creating Strong and Safe Queer Communities | |
| 28 November 2008 | Lipman Building, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne | Becoming or Unbecoming? Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Research in the 21st Century |
One-day conference for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) academics, researchers and activists – |
| 12 November | University of Brighton, Watts 107 | BSSN Planning Meeting | |
| 7 November 2008 | John Moores University, Liverpool | Still out of Place? Symposium and book launch of Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality |
For further info see the website |
| 3 November 2008 | The Friends’ Meeting House, Brighton | A £10 returnable deposit secures a place. |
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| 27 October 2008, 10-4pm | Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh | Seminar One: Questions on Equality |
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| 17 September 2008 | University of Sussex | Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Research Network Conference | Second annual BSSN conference |
| 13 - 15 September 2008 | University of Exeter | Queer in Europe | |
| 1 August 2008 | The Queens Hotel Brighton |
Feelings of P/pride: one day Conference | Conference |
| 31 July 2008 | Feelings of P/pride : Evening Social Event | Evening Social event | |
| 22 July 2008 at 5pm | University of Kent, Canterbury | The Lambeth Conference: A View from the Fringe |
For more information see: http://www.kent.ac.uk/clgs/ |
| 17 July 2008 | Friends Meeting House, Brighton | Count Me in Too: General Health Findings Report | |
| 10 - 12 July 2008 | University of Sussex | Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change Conference 2008 | University of Sussex, Brighton |
| 14 June | King’s College London | Are the Kids Alright? A Symposium on the Queer Child | |
| May 23 and 24 | King’s College London |
Anglo-Saxon Futures 2: About Time | Includes a number of papers about ‘queer time’, ‘genderqueer’, gender and sexuality. |
| 17 May | Dragon Hall, 17 Stukeley Street, London WC2 | Section 28 - Hiding Homosexuality | |
| 16 May | Sidney Walter Centre, Worthing | LGBTU Youth Launch Event | The aim of this event is to disseminate the findings of the report by bringing together practitioners and LGBTU young people from across West Sussex |
| 15 May 2008, 6.30pm–8pm | Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London WC1 | "Bees, Bio-Pirates and the Queer Art of Cross-Pollination" | The Birkeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BIGS) Inaugural Guest Lecture The event is free. To reserve a place please email bigs@fll.bbk.ac.uk . Early reservation recommended. |
| 12 May 2008, 5.15pm | Room 238 (English Department Common Room), Strand Building, King’s College London |
Queer discipline seminar: "Hans Christian Andersen: Tales of a Fairy?" | Dag is Associate Professor of Danish Literature, University of Southern Denmark and has written four books that are all part of the project of queering Danish literature.. He is currently an honorary lecturer at UCL. |
| Monday 6:15pm, weeks 2, 3 and 5 of summer term | University of Sussex | Sus(sex)ualities summer programme | Interdisciplinary graduate colloquium on sexual themes |
| 11 April 2008 | UCL | A day-conference at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies | |
| 3-5 April 2008 | Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK | Sexuality and development workshop | Theme: Sexuality and the Development Industry |
| Thursday the 13th March at 7pm | Grand Parade boardroom, University of Brighton | "Clergy Shatter Another Taboo:" American Protestants and Gay Rights before Stonewall | |
| 28 March, 6pm | 'Pokeno Pies' (upstairs), 52 Gardner Street, Brighton, BN1 1UN | 'Gay-friendly' neighbourhoods: towards understanding social cohesion across sexual difference in two Australian neighbourhoods | |
| 13 February | Sussex Research Centre Launch | ||
| 9th-10th February | Westhill Community Hall, off Compton ave. Seven Dials, Brighton. |
Club Woteva - social and activist workshops | Welcome to our wonderful Westhill Wotever Weekender on the 9th and 10th of February in Brighton! |
| Wednesday, 6th February times: From 7.30pm |
Pokeno Pies view map |
Open Mic Night @ Pokeno Pies |
times: From 7.30pm door tax: Donations to Pride |
| 12 December 4-6 PM |
Grand Parade Boardroom, University of Brighton | BSSN committee meeting/planning meeting | During the conference day we discussed how we, going forward, would like the Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network to work and it was decided that it would be useful to set up a committee as a way of consolidating the network and plan for future events and collaborations. |
12 December |
The George | Christmas Social | |
| 7 December 5pm |
The Cowley Club 12 London Road, Brighton BN1 4JA |
'Gay Punks in T-shirts' | BSSN event |
| 5 December 5pm |
EDB 341 University of Sussex |
‘The Genome Incorporated: Mediation, Embodiment and Biotechnology’ | Part of the Sussex University Department of Media and Film Research in Progress Seminars |
| 5 December 5:30pm |
Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton. | Count Me In Too – Launch: Domestic Violence & Abuse Findings Report |
Organised by Spectrum LGBT Community Forum, the University of Brighton and the LGBT Domestic Violence & Abuse Working Group* |
| 3 December 5.15pm |
Room 238, Strand Campus, King's College London | 'Introducing the Two-Spirits: a New Identity for Queer American Indians' | queer discipline 2007-08 is convened by Mark Turner
(English, KCL) on behalf of the Queer@King's
research centre e: mark.2.turner@kcl.ac.uk |
| 2 December 7pm |
Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade, University of Brighton | Brighton Bandits a film by Ian McDonald |
The film will be followed by a Q&A organised by BSSN |
| 28 November 5pm |
EDB 121 University of Sussex |
‘Queer (in) History: Readings in Seventeenth-Century French (Sexual) Culture’ |
QUEORY 2nd Inaugural Lecture |
| 21 November 5pm |
Arts A 071 University of Sussex |
‘Acts, Orientations, and the Sodomites of San Gimignano’ | Organized by The Graduate Colloquium, Department of English, University of Sussex, co-sponsored by QUEORY |
| 21 November 5pm |
EDB 341 University of Sussex |
‘”Alone in London !”: Sexual Geography and Early Cinema’ | Part of the Sussex University Department of Media and Film Research in Progress Seminars |
| 19 November 5.15pm |
Room 238, Strand Campus, King's College London | 'Polymorphous Perversity: The Origins of Cinematic Pornography and the Absence of Contemporary Pleasure' | queer discipline 2007-08 is convened by Mark Turner
(English, KCL) on behalf of the Queer@King's
research centre |
| 14 November 5pm |
EDB 121 University of Sussex |
‘Happy Objects’ | Organized by The Graduate Colloquium, Department of English, University of Sussex, co-sponsored by QUEORY |
| 12 November 6:30 - 8:30pm |
Seminar 2, CDEC building, Falmer House |
University of Sussex ‘sussexualities’ seminar | The sussexualities seminar series is a great opportunity for students working on gender and sexualities to discuss their work with other students. |
| 9 November 10am - 4pm |
Boardroom (room 309) Westminster Law School, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2UW, |
Centre LGS: Health and Masculinity Workshop Author Meets Readers: Cynthia Daniels' Exposing Men: the Science and Politics of Male Reproduction (OUP 2006) | Important Note: places are limited so please register asap. For further details on the workshop, please contact Marie Fox: m.fox@law.keele.ac.uk. |
| 7 November 5pm |
EDB 341 University of Sussex |
‘”Feminist Thoughts May Cause Resentment”: Consumerism, Postfeminism and Contemporary Chinese Femininities’ | Part of the Sussex University Department of Media and Film Research in Progress Seminars |
| 31 October 4pm |
EDB 341 University of Sussex |
‘The Cultural Politics of Shame’ | Part of the Sussex University Department of Media and Film Research in Progress Seminars |
29 October |
Room 238, Strand Campus, King's College London | 'Homes fit for homos: Joe Orton and the Domesticated Queer' | queer discipline 2007-08 is convened by Mark Turner
(English, KCL) on behalf of the Queer@King's
research centre |
| 24 October 4pm |
EDB 121 University of Sussex |
‘Documentary, AIDS and Activism in China: Making "Central Plains"’ | Film screening at 4.00 in EDB121, followed by discussion in EDB341 Part of the Sussex University Department of Media and Film Research in Progress Seminars |
| 22 October 6.15pm |
Council Room, Strand Campus, King's College London | 'The Angel's Song: Nino Rota and the Impossibility of Gay Music' | queer discipline 2007-08 is convened by Mark Turner
(English, KCL) on behalf of the Queer@King's
research centre |
Conference 19th September 2007
