Events (2)

Gender and Sexuality Research at Edinburgh Napier University
Mar 6, 2024

Location Merchiston Campus, room: MER_H11

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).

People Amy Beddows
Anne Schwan
Ashley Stein
David Bishop
Fiona McQueen
Frederik Byrn Kohlert
Phiona Stanley
Rob Clucas
Roberto Kulpa
Toni Kania
Yen Wong

Org Units Business School
School of Applied Sciences
School of Arts and Creative Industries

Location	Merchiston Campus, room: MER_H11
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).
People	Amy Beddows Anne Schwan Ashley Stein David Bishop Fiona McQueen Frederik Byrn Kohlert Phiona Stanley Rob Clucas Roberto Kulpa Toni Kania Yen Wong
Org Units	Business School School of Applied Sciences School of Arts and Creative Industries

Dark Tourism Research Symposium: Memory, Pilgrimage and the Digital Realm
May 5, 2022

Location Craiglockhart Campus

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.

People Anne Schwan
Craig Wight
Phiona Stanley

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Business School

URL https://bit.ly/ENU-DarkTourism2022

Location	Craiglockhart Campus
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.
People	Anne Schwan Craig Wight Phiona Stanley
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries Business School
URL	https://bit.ly/ENU-DarkTourism2022