Gendering Seminar 2019-2020
With Dr Alison Ravenscroft, I convened the seminar Gendering: A Seminar Series on Psychoanalysis and Performances of Gender. This seminar is not currently running.
In this seminar we situated ourselves at the nexus in contemporary life between gender, psychoanalysis and performativity, including in the clinic of psychoanalysis as well as in writing and other arts. Questions that inspired us to initiate this seminar included: What place does the idea of gender have in psychoanalysis? What provocations do the contemporary events occurring within concepts and experiences of gender offer to psychoanalysis? What can we learn about the complexities between the terms gender, sex and sexuality? What does psychoanalysis perform in its conceptualisation and deployment of the idea of the language of the body, especially when the body in question is not hetero-(or otherwise)-normative?
