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Category Archives: Academic
Bristol Festival of Literature Events
The full publicity for my two events at the Bristol Festival of Literature is now out. The “Stories of Strong Women” panel only exists as a Facebook event. You can find that here. Apparently we have 85 people going already, … Continue reading
Helsinki Worldcon Academic Track – Call for Papers
Finnish conventions always have a great academic presence, and their Worldcon promises to be no different. I have just been sent the Call for Papers for Worldcon 75. The theme of the track will be “100 Years of Estrangement”. The … Continue reading
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YA and Gender Conference, Italy 2017
Hello academic pals. Here is a conference that you may be interested in. It is called Literature, Translation, and Mediation by and for Children: Gender, Diversity, and Stereotype, and it will take place at the University of Bologna at Forlì … Continue reading
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New Fafnir
A new issue if Fafnir, the Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, has been posted. You can find it here. In this issue there are two papers by academics from India. That’s impressively international of my Nordic friends. … Continue reading
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Registration for PopSex 2016 Open
The blurb says: The second annual Sex and Sexualities in Popular Culture: Feminist Perspectives symposium is returning to the Bristol Watershed in September 2016. Following an exciting inaugural symposium in 2015, this year’s event will continue our tradition of offering … Continue reading
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Research Matters
The talk that caused to me walk out of the trans history conference was so bad that almost every slide was either incompetent or dishonest in some way (it can be hard to tell the difference between someone who is … Continue reading
Day Two at #MTHF16
Today started off with a lot of international material. Kevin went off to see the paper on trans people in Japan (and discovered that the Japanese language didn’t have gendered pronouns until they started translating English and German texts and … Continue reading
Day One at #MTHF16
Day one of the conference proper saw Kevin and I taking an early morning bus for the University of Victoria. The more I see of this island, the more beautiful it seems, and the university campus did nothing to dispel … Continue reading
Launching #MTHF16
Kevin and I spent most of today playing tourist around Victoria. The weather was beautiful again, and we are both very footsore as a result. Victoria is a beautiful city, and it has loads of bookstores. Of course today is … Continue reading
Social Constructivism and Trans History
My apologies for delving into theory here, but this is rather important and something I need to think through. Writing blog posts helps. When you do LGBT history you hear a lot about how we must never impose modern ideas … Continue reading
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Last Sunday in Manchester
It occurs to me that I haven’t yet blogged about the Sunday of the LGBT History Academic Conference. That’s remiss of me, because it means that only people on Twitter and Facebook will have seen the above photo. It is … Continue reading
Let’s Talk About Sex
It seems to be a day for writing about things I am doing. As well as the story, I am delighted to announce that in September I will be a keynote speaker at an academic conference. No, seriously, I will. … Continue reading
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Thank You, Goddess
Well that seemed to go well. I got several very kind comments about my paper on trans people in ancient Mesopotamia and Rome. For those asking, I have a bit of work to do on it, and may get some … Continue reading
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My Manchester Schedule
There are two things I am going in Manchester this week. One is giving a paper about trans people in ancient Mesopotamia and Rome at an academic conference. You have to sign up for a ticket for that, but if … Continue reading
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Two Academic Conferences
OK, so I have quite enough to be doing right now. But here are a couple of calls for papers that I am considering responding to. First up is the academic track of this year’s Finncon. It has the advantage … Continue reading
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New Fafnir
The latest issue of Fafnir, the Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, is now available. The English language content includes a paper on ecological themes in fantasy, and a fascinating examination of gender and magic in Neil Gaiman’s … Continue reading
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International Trans Studies Conference
Next September (7th-10th) the University of Arizona will be holding an international transdisciplinary conference on gender, embodiment, and sexuality in Tucson. I can’t go, of course, because it is in the USA, but it does look very interesting. I was … Continue reading
New Fafnir Published
The latest issue of Fafnir, the Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, has just been published. This issue has three articles in English: two about Sir Terry Pratchett and one about Michael Crichton. The Pratchett articles are a … Continue reading
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Doing Trans History #HistTrans
It was perhaps not the best timing in the world to be spending last weekend in a hotel in Manchester. I was up in the middle of the night on both Friday and Sunday mornings for events at Worldcon. But … Continue reading
Trans Duly Historicised
Well that was fun. Some really great papers, and mine seemed to go down well too. I’ll write more about it tomorrow, but I have to be up at 3:30am for the Hugo Award Ceremony so I’m going to bed … Continue reading
