Gender and Sexuality Research at Edinburgh Napier University
Mar 6, 2024
Description Let’s get together and listen to colleagues working on gender and sexuality! And then let’s talk about their fascinating ideas, and how they relate to our own work and topics! This event is envisaged as informal and friendly gathering, following the success of similar gathering in 2023. We want to continue on this good tradition, and build new connections, learn about inspiring research we are doing across the university, feel inspired and nurtured.
Please send any queries to: Dr Roberto Kulpa (r.kulpa@napier.ac.uk)
SCHEDULE
14:00-14:10
Welcome (Roberto Kulpa)
14:10-15:00 TRANS LIVES
GUEST: Gina Gwenffrewi (University of Edinburgh) will start with an input about trans* people's cultural production online (i.e. YouTube, Twitter/X), framing the moral panic, and its impact on the trans* communities.
Rob Clucas (Law) will speak to the latest ‘gender critical’ challenge to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in the appeal to the Supreme Court in the For Women Scotland case. He suggests that a solution to the current poisonous polemic around trans* rights can usefully be sought in the dialogic theory of Martin Buber (Buber 1958).
Toni Kania (Social Sciences) will introduce their PhD project about conceptualising bodily autonomy and sovereignty of trans* people – and from trans* peoples’ perspective – in Poland.
15:00-15:10 Coffee and pastries break
15:10-16:00 GENDERED VIOLENCE
Amy Beddows (Counselling) will speak about the potential of horror texts as tools for survivors processing the experiences of gendered violence.
Anne Schwan (English) will reflect on femicide, perpetrator narratives and the challenge of restorative justice, drawing from her analysis of Em Strang's novel “Quinn” (2023).
Fiona McQueen (Social Sciences) will conclude this section pondering on her project on Scottish young men’s attitudes towards prevention messages on violence against women, incl. queer & trans men’s accounts and insights.
16:00-16:10 Coffee and pastries break
16:10-17:00 REPRESENTATIONS
Yen Nee Wong (Social Sciences) will introduce us to queer cultures of ballroom dancing and the role of Strictly Come Dancing’s representations and mainstreaming.
David Bishop (Creative Writing) will speak about his creative writing PhD, instigation into the scarcity of queer sleuths in historical mystery fiction set before the Victorian era, and the politics of outing and authorship.
Phiona Stanley (Tourism) will talk about labels – ‘spinsters’, ‘crazy cat ladies’, ‘witches’. It is also, in theoretical terms, about queering queerness by negotiating the queer and deeply gendered queerness of spinsterhood.
17:00-17:10 Coffee and pastries break
17:10-17:45 POP!
Ashley Stein (Music) will introduce their PhD project on how hyperpop and other electronic music practices can be used to destabilise gender binaries.
Frederik Byrn Køhlert (English, Visual Cultures) will close this input section with a reflection on the representation of gender and sexuality in comics & graphic novels, incl. examples from work as editor of a Routledge series on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics.
17:45-onwards: Post-Event Drinks & Food at nearby The Golf Tavern
30-31 Wright's Houses, Bruntsfield, EH10 4HR
Event Organisation:
Dr Roberto Kulpa
School of Applied Sciences: Deputy Research Degrees Lead
Co-Director: MSc Applied Social Research
Co-Investigator: (2022-2026) ‘RESIST. Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics’ (EU Horizon Europe grant no. 101060749).Location Merchiston Campus, room: MER_H11 People Amy Beddows
Anne Schwan
Ashley Stein
David Bishop
Fiona McQueen
Frederik Byrn Kohlert
Phiona Stanley
Rob Clucas
Roberto Kulpa
Toni Kania
Yen WongOrg Units Business School
School of Applied Sciences
School of Arts and Creative IndustriesResearch Areas Acoustics
Art and design
Children’s Rights
Criminology
Critical studies
Cultural heritage
Education
Ethics and sustainability
Families and Relationships
Film and television
Gender
Geopolitics
Health and wellbeing
Hospitality
Human rights
Intercultural Communication
Law and Legal Policy
Literature
Mental health
Migration and Mobility
Music
Pedagogy
Public health
Publishing
Reproductive health
Social justice
TourismThemes AI and Technologies
Culture and Communities
Environment
HealthResearch Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Centre for Child & Family Law and Policy
Centre for Creative Practice Research
Social Sciences Research Group
Prof Anne Schwan's Events (24)
CAMC research talk
Feb 14, 2024
Description The Centre for Arts, Media and Culture is hosting a talk by Dr Richard Ashby (King's College London), on Shakespeare and post-Holocaust culture Location Merchiston H14 and online People Anne Schwan
Georgina LucasOrg Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Themes Culture and Communities Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
CAMC research talk: gender and space in Iranian cinema
Oct 25, 2023
Description See attached document Location Merchiston E13 People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Film and television Themes Culture and Communities Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Gender and Sexuality Research: Work-in-Progress Afternoon
Mar 8, 2023
Description Marking International Women's Day, this event is jointly hosted by the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture (CAMC) and the Centre for Creative Practice (CCP), with presentations from different disciplinary perspectives in the arts, humanities and social sciences. We will also be joined by an external collaborator (Dr Manuella Blackburn, Open University), with a short performance. Location E17 Merchiston Campus People Anne Schwan
Sarah Artt
Sana Bilgrami
Kirsten MacLeod
Roberto Kulpa
Andrew Frayn
Sophie Gerrard
Paul Harkins
Jaya JayalakshmiThemes Culture and Communities
Publishing, Editing and Reviewing
Feb 22, 2023
Description Session hosted by the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture (CAMC), with a presentation from Tom Dark (Edinburgh University Press), Dr Emily Alder (General Editor of Gothic Studies) and Professor Anne Schwan (CAMC Lead and Member of the University's DORA Working Group). Location H10 People Anne Schwan
Emily Alder
Research talk by Dr Adrian Wisnicki: ‘Collaboration Across Disciplines and Cultures with One More Voice’
Feb 8, 2023
Description Hosted by the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture, guest speaker Dr Adrian Wisnicki (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) will be presenting on One More Voice, a digital humanities recovery project engaging with the voices of racialized creators in British imperial and colonial archives. Location Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, with online joining option via Teams. People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes Culture and Communities
Research talk by Dr David Sorfa: 'Can We Take Existentialism Seriously? Tony Hancock and The Rebel (1961)'
Nov 2, 2022
Description Hosted by the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture, guest speaker Dr David Sorfa (University of Edinburgh) will be presenting on film-philosophy and the parodic presentation of Existentialism in Robin Day's 1961 comedy The Rebel. Location Merchiston Campus, E14 People Anne Schwan
Calum NeillThemes Culture and Communities
Research Talk by Dr Arianna Introna, ‘Crip Enchantments: Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Scottish Writing and Culture’
Oct 12, 2022
Description This research talk by guest speaker Dr Arianna Introna is hosted by the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture (CAMC). All welcome.
Organiser: Prof. Anne Schwan. Chair: Dr. Scott Lyall.Location Merchiston Campus E14 People Anne Schwan
Scott LyallOrg Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes Culture and Communities
Health
Dark Tourism Research Symposium: Memory, Pilgrimage and the Digital Realm
May 5, 2022
Description The Tourism and Languages Subject Group (the Business School) and the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University are delighted to announce details of a dark tourism research symposium, which will take place at the Craiglockhart Campus at Edinburgh Napier University and online on May 5th, 2022.
A growing interest in dark tourism as a recognised special category of tourism behaviour continues to attract the attention of academics from a variety of disciplines, including sociology, cultural studies and anthropology. Recent contributors to the field have looked at contexts such as gulag tourism in Kazakhstan, edutainment interpretation at ‘lighter’ dark tourism attractions, the ethics and politics of digital displays in police museums, and the use of netnographic research methods to understand the motives and reactions of visitors to iconic Holocaust heritage sites.
This interdisciplinary symposium led by Professor Anne Schwan, Dr Craig Wight, and Dr Phiona Stanley seeks to bring together academics from a range of backgrounds to share ideas and recent research achievements as well as foster conversations between academic researchers and tourism or creative practitioners.
Speakers include:
Kat Brogan (Managing Director, Mercat Tours Edinburgh)
Professor John Lennon (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Professors Justin Piché (University of Ottawa) and Kevin Walby (University of Winnipeg)
Dr Brianna Wyatt (Oxford Brookes University)
Professor Jeffrey S Podoshen (Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, USA)
The symposium organizers welcome theoretical or applied research contributions in the form of structured abstracts on the following topics:
Digital dark tourism, including, but not limited to netnographic research and the uses of social media and web 2.0 in dark tourism
Dark tourism and memory
Visitor motives and visitor interpretation
Ethics and social justice in relation to dark tourism sites
Prisons and other penal history sites as examples of dark tourism
Creative practice artefacts involving dark tourism, e.g. films/photographs/installations
Dark tourism, mobilities and pilgrimage
Novel research methodological approaches and dark tourism
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1st February 2022
Please send your 250-word abstract and a short biographical statement (no more than 100 words) to darktourism@napier.ac.uk.Location Craiglockhart Campus People Anne Schwan
Craig Wight
Phiona StanleyOrg Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Business SchoolResearch Areas Tourism
Migration and Mobility
Information society
Ethics and sustainability
ManagementResearch Centres/Groups Tourism Research Centre URL https://bit.ly/ENU-DarkTourism2022
Research Roundtable on 'Global Atrocities in Literature and Culture' (online)
Dec 8, 2021
Description The Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW) is hosting a research roundtable online, featuring Dr Kelsie Donnelly (Queen's University Belfast), Dr Arin Keeble (Edinburgh Napier University), Dr Edel Lamb (Queen's University Belfast) and Dr Georgina Lucas (Edinburgh Napier University) Location Online via WebEx People Anne Schwan
Arin Keeble
Georgina LucasOrg Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Maja Brandt Andreasen (U of Strathclyde), 'Just Sex? The Discursive Construction of Sexual Violence in Internet Humour about #MeToo' AND Amy King (Edinburgh Napier U), '"Tied up in knots
Jun 9, 2021
Location Online People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Professor Nathalie Jaeck (U Bordeaux Montaigne), 'Dickens's Redefinition of the Rhetoric of Landscape'
May 19, 2021
Location Online People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Dr Alice Kelly (U of Oxford/U of Sussex), 'Commemorative Modernisms - Women Writers, Death and the First World War'
Apr 28, 2021
People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Dr Maisha Wester (Indiana U, Bloomington/Sheffield U), 'New World Monsters for an Old World Problem - Redefining Terror in Black Diasporic Gothic Literature'
Mar 17, 2021
People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Visiting Researcher: The Artificial Intelligence of the Victorian Novel
May 16, 2018
Description In this research talk hosted by the Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW), Dr Ward will be discussing her forthcoming book Seeming Human (Ohio State UP, 2018), which finds a new theory of Victorian realist character in the emergence of artificial intelligence in the mid-20th century. Redefining Victorian fictional character through its similarity to machines, this book challenges prevailing assumptions about what makes a realist character real.
Dr Ward is Assistant Professor in British Literature at Oregon State University and currently a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh.
All welcome!Location Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Room B2 (3-4.30pm) People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Lead Organiser 'Crime Fiction(s): Victorian and Neo-Victorian Narratives of Crime and Punishment'
Apr 27, 2018
Description One-day interdisciplinary conference under the auspices of the new Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies, co-sponsored by the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS), the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at Glasgow University, Strathclyde University and Edinburgh Napier's Centre for Literature and Writing. Aside from academic presentations, there will be a talk by the National Library of Scotland's Rare Books Curator and a performance of Martin Travers' new play 'Annville' about two murders in Victorian Lanarkshire. Location Merchiston Campus People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Invited talk "Crime, Punishment and Social Justice: From Oliver Twist to the Suffragettes." Kilgraston School (Royal Society of Edinburgh Schools Outreach Programme)
Oct 27, 2017
Description Invited talk to young audience of 16-18 year olds from Kilgraston School, Merchiston Castle School and Queen Victoria School. Approximate number of attendees: 50 (including 7 teachers). Location Perth, Kilgraston School People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
Invited talk "Books or Prisons? Reflections on Literature and Social Justice." Merchiston Castle School (Royal Society of Edinburgh Schools Outreach Programme)
Jan 24, 2017
Description Invited speaker at Annual Scholars' Dinner with an audience of approximately 100 pupils (aged 11 to 18) and teachers. Location Edinburgh, Merchiston Castle School People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing
International Prison Education Day
Oct 13, 2016
Description Dr Anne Schwan co-organised International Prison Education Day at HMP Barlinnie on 13th October 2016 and acted as judge of a writing and arts competition with entries from prisons across Scotland and Ireland. She secured funding from the RSE Young Academy of Scotland to sponsor a workshop by Glasgow-based performance group 'Street Cones'. 'Street Cones' is a non-profit organisation consisting of people who have experienced the criminal justice system and who are now engaged in preventive community work with at-risk young people. They have a strong commitment to mentoring and peer support to preclude substance misuse, offending and re-offending behaviour. The day's programme overall won the European Prison Education Association's award for the best International Prison Education Day out of all the events that took place across Europe. Location HMP Barlinnie, Glasgow People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing URL http://www.sps.gov.uk/Corporate/News/News-4526.aspx
Invited talk on Gender and the Nation in the Wake of the Florence Maybrick Trial. Symposium on Gender Stereotypes in the Long Nineteenth Century. Stirling University.
May 12, 2016
Location 30 April 2016, Stirling University People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries Research Areas Literature Themes AI and Technologies Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing