Studying gender and sexuality psychosocially: Dialogue across perspectives

Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 10:00 - 16:30

The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Venue: Michael Young Building, Rooms 1-3

Convenor: Meg Barker

This event brings together people who are studying gender and sexuality from a variety of psychosocial perspectives. There have been a number of events recently considering 'new femininities', 'sexualisation', 'girlhood' and other related topics, but few have explicitly focused on what different theoretical positions have to offer these areas. These topics are of great psychosocial interest because the key tension throughout the work is that between structure and agency.

During this seminar a number of perspectives will be offered during the morning (psychoanalytic, phenomenological, Deleuzian, discursive, critical realist, etc.) in two panels of presentations. In the afternoon, two facilitated workshops will give attendees the chance to bring their own theoretical perspectives to bear on data in this field. Finally, responses to the day will be offered by some key writers in this area.

Programme

10:00 -10:15 Introductions: Meg Barker (The Open University)

10:15 -13:00 Panel: Valerie Walkerdine (Cardiff University), Emma Renold & Gabrielle Ivinson (Cardiff University),

Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick), Feona Attwood (Sheffield

Halam University) [with 15 minute break in the middle]

13:00 -14:00 Lunch

14:00 -15:00 Workshop 1: Working psychosocially with participant data – led by Ester McGeeney (The Open

University)

15:00 -16:00 Workshop 2: Working psychosocially existing data – led by Laura Harvey (The Open University)

16:00 -16:30 Discussion

Please refer to file attachments which includes the full programme and abstracts

Registration

If you would like to attend please e-mail socsci-ccig-events@open.ac.uk
Should you have any queries please contact Sarah Batt, Research Secretary, CCIG, a.s.c.batt@open.ac.uk (Tel: 01908 654704)