Throughout the year, CHED will be hosting or co-hosting a number of distinguished visitors who will be offering lectures and seminars. See also the CHED Seminar Series.
2009
Ivan Crozier
Ivan Crozier is a Lecturer in the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh. He is also Reviews Editor (Human Sciences), for Metascience (2004 - ) and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2007 - ). He was previously a lecturer at the Sydney University Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science (1999 – 2000), and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (2000 – 2003).
His research strengths include: The Trial of Ronald True: The Place of Psychiatry in a 1922 Murder Trial; Culture and Psychiatry: The Case of Koro; M’Naghten and Murder in Colonial East Africa; The Sexual Body in History and Society; Criminal Responsibility and Psychiatry.
Ivan has edited several collections mostly in the History of Sexuality and has many papers with a special focus on Havelock Ellis and on the Medical Construction of Homosexuality.
Ivan will visit CHED from June of 2009
Fernanda Alfieri
Fernanda Alfieri visited CHED from the 2nd March to the 5th April. Fernanda is a researcher at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler—Studi Storici italo-germanici/Italienisch-Deutsches Historisches Institut in Trento, Italy. Her studies and research focus on moral discourse in theological, medical and legal sources throughout early modern Catholic Europe. Her findings on sexuality and marriage in the theological discourse of the 17th century have recently been made into a full-length book, which is forthcoming.
Fernanda presented at the CHED Work in Progress series: her paper was titled “Shaping sexualities, shaping sexualized individuals in Early modern catholic Europe.
2008
Alistair Rolls
Alistair is currently on sabbatical and, having spent two months as a visiting scholar at Nottingham Trent University, is currently a visitor at CHED where he is working on two edited volumes: Mostly French: French (in) Detective Fiction (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, forthcoming) and Hexagonal Variations: Difference, Plurality and Cultural Change in Contemporary France (co-edited with Murray Pratt and Jo McCormack).
Alistair Rolls is a lecturer at the University of Newcastle where he teaches French language and literature. He has published quite broadly on twentieth-century literature but is perhaps best known for his work on Boris Vian.
His major works include The Flight of the Angels: Intertextuality in Four Novels by Boris Vian (Amsterdam; Atlanta: Rodopi 1999), Dark Crossings: Repositioning French and American Noir (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming), which he co-authored with Deborah Walker, and Sartre’s ‘Nausea’: Text, Context, Intertext (Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2005), which he co-edited with Liz Rechniewski.
More recently he has co-edited a special issue of the Australian Journal of French Studies with Jo McCormack, entitled Voices from North Africa (AJFS, 45(2), 2008).
For the 2008 Rudé Seminar in French History CHED was pleased to host:
Colin Jones, who is Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. Colin Jones is the author of many important books on the cultural and social history of eighteenth-century France, including The Medical World of Early Modern France (1997, with Laurence Brockliss); The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, 1715-1799 (2002); Madame de Pompadour and her Image (2002); and Paris: Biography of a City (2004). He is currently working on a history of teeth and smiles in eighteenth-century Paris.
Christine Bard, who is Professeure des universités at the Université d’Angers. Her books include Les Filles de Marianne. Histoires des féminismes. 1914-1940 (1995); Les Garçonnes. Modes et fantasmes des Années folles (1998); Les Femmes dans la société française au XXesiècle (2001). Her most recent book, Une Histoire politique du pantalon, is due to appear in early 2008.
Fabrice Virgili who is Chargé de recherche of the CNRS group IRICE (Identités, relations internationales et civilisations de l’Europe) at the Univerisité de Paris 1. He is author of La France “virile”: Des femmes tondues à la liberation (2000), and co-author of Hommes et femmes dans la France en guerre, 1914-1945 (2003). He is currently working on a project about children born of Franco-German couples during World War Two.
2007
Thomas Laqueur
On Wednesday 8 August, Thomas Laqueur gave a public lecture on places of the dead. On Friday 10 August, he was the central speaker in a day-long seminar entitled “Turning Points in the History of Sexuality”.
2006
Susan Stryker, UCLA
On Tuesday 28 February, at 6pm, Susan Stryker presented a screening of her documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria at the Schonell Cinema. Further information about the documentary and presenter can be downloaded here.
Jana Sawicki, Williams College, USA
A seminar entitled "Focault and Sexual Freedom" was delivered by Jana Sawicki, internationally recognised for her work in feminist theory and critical disability studies.
Cary Nederman, Texas A&M
Cary Nederman delivered a seminar entitled "Comparative Political Theory and the Varieties of Dialogue.
2005
Andrew Benjamin, UTS
On Thursday 18 August, at 4 p.m., in the CCCS seminar room, level 4, Forgan-Smith Tower , Andrew Benjamin delivered a lecture entitled Boredom and Distraction: The Moods of Modernity (on Walter Benjamin).
Margrit Shildrick, University College Dublin
On 12 May, A lecture entitled "The Disabled Body: Genealogy, and Undecidability" was delivered by Margrit Shildrick, internationally recognised for her work in feminist theory and critical disability studies. A lecture abstract and biographical sketch may be downloaded here
Havi Carel, ANU
A seminar entitled "Understanding Death: Two Types of Finitude in Heidegger" was delivered by Havi Carel.