"Enlightenment Sex(ualities) - Texts, Practices, Species and Spaces"
Workshop initiated by the Research Group: "Globalizing the Enlightenment"
The workshop was designed by the Lichtenberg-Kolleg research group: "Globalising the Enlightenment: Knowledge, Culture, Travel, Exchange and Collections" and the research project "Knowledge" of the Graduate School of Humanities Göttingen (GSGG).It reflects our common research interests and diverse disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds. Hence, speakers will interrogate the Enlightenment's interest in and study of sexual notions and practices from different angles. We are interested in tracing shifting narratives with regard to sex, sexuality, and sexual economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in a global context.
Topics we want to address are:
Radical Sexual Difference, Pornographic Depiction and Intercultural Reflection
Sexuality and Desire between Empires: Encounters, Crossovers, Transgressions
Sexual Morality, Religion and Sacred Texts
Race, Gender and Sexual Difference
Investigating Reproduction: Animals, Nerves and Genitals
If you want to attend please register with Dr. Dominik Hünniger until 1st November 2016
Program:
7th and 8th November 2016
Green Hall, Historic Observatory
7th November 2016
09:00 - 09:30 REGISTRATION / WELCOME GREETINGS OF THE LICHTENBERG-KOLLEG / INTRODUCTION
09:30 - 10:15 AVI LIFSCHITZ, LONDON
From Göttingen to Sri Lanka: Theology and the Transnational Exchange of Knowledge on Elephant Mating
10:15 - 11.00 COFFEE
11:00 - 11:45 DEMETRIUS EUDELL, WESLEYAN/GÖTTINGEN
Christoph Meiners and the Socio-Erotic Theory of Universal History
11:45 - 12:30 NIC MILLER, GÖTTINGEN
From the 'Great Map of Debauchery' to Histories of Sex: Synthesizing Global Sexual Difference during the Enlightenment
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 14:15 KAREN HOLLEWAND, OXFORD
Use the Gift that Nature has given: Ideas on Sexual Liberty in the Studies of Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716)
14:15 - 15:00 MARA VAN DER LUGT, GÖTTINGEN
Bayle on Sex: Euphemism, Transgression and Obscenity in the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1696-1702)
15:00 - 15.30 COFFEE
15:30 - 16:15 DARREN WAGNER, MONTREAL
Hard Evidence: Demonstrating Sexual Economy Using Genital Anatomy
16:15 - 17:00 DOMINIK HÜNNIGER, GÖTTINGEN
"Bees do it" - Understanding Animal Reproduction in 18th Century European Entomology
18:30 DINNER
8th November 2016
09:30 - 10:15 ANDREW WELLS, GÖTTINGEN
Venus Inferred: Race, Reproduction, and the Reception of Maupertuis' Ideas in Great Britain, c.1740-c.1840
10:15 - 11.00 SILVIA SEBASTIANI, PARIS
At Tea with Mme Chimpanzee in 1730s London: "The greatest Curiosity in the known world"
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE
11:30 - 12:15 SERKAN DELICE, LONDON
The Janissaries and Their Bedfellows: Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Early Modern Ottoman
12:15 - 13:00 NIDA SAJID, GÖTTINGEN
Trading Lewdness from Murshidabad to London: Gender, Commerce and the Curious Case of Munni Begum
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 14:45 INGER LEEMANS, AMSTERDAM
The Economics of Desire. The Interrelation of Sex and Trade around 1700
14:45 - 15:30 BILL BELL, CARDIFF / GÖTTINGEN
Venus in the Stocks: The Humble Representation of the Unspeakable Mr Curll
15:30 - 16.00 COFFEE
16:00 - 17:00 VISIT TO THE ACCOUCHIERHAUS / HISTORIC OBSTETRICS CLINIC - Tour with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schlumbohm (Göttingen)
20:00 DINNER