The 32nd Irish Conference of Historians will take place at University College Cork, Thursday 26-Saturday 28 April, 2018. The theme of the conference will be Sex, sexuality & reproduction: historical perspectives.
As well as papers/panels that address the historiography of sex, sexuality and reproduction, and the historical/theoretical debates that have enlivened the field, we welcome proposals in, or germane to, the following broad subject areas:
- sexual behaviours and practices
- sexual orientation and gender identity
- the body
- marriage and relationships
- celibacy
- transgression, deviance and taboos
- sexual violence, coercion and crime sex, race and colonialism
- class, sex and sexuality
- sex, war and revolution
- prostitution
- sex, sexuality and reproduction in folklore, art, literature, film, theatre, the media, music and dance
- pornography, erotica and sexual imagery
- censorship
- sex education
- psychology, psychoanalysis and sexology
- morality, religion, and ideology
- politics and the law
- regulation, criminalisation and resistance
- LGBT histories
- activism and social movements
- sexual health and STDs
- pregnancy and childbirth
- abortion and contraception
- infanticide
- eugenics and population control
- reproductive rights and technologies
- midwifery, obstetrics and gynaecology
- breastfeeding
- parenthood, childhood and the family
Both panel and individual proposals are welcome. Please send individual paper proposals (a 200- to 300-word abstract) and panel proposals (300-word overview + 200- to 300-word abstracts for the papers) to the conference email: irishch32@gmail.com or c/o Donal Ó Drisceoil, School of History, University College Cork, Ireland.
Deadline: 31 Jan. 2018
For further details please see flyer Irish Conference of Historians 2018 CFP