The School of Humanities is pleased to invite you to the annual Southampton Stonewall lecture, which will take place on Thursday 27 February at 18:00 on the University of Southampton’s Avenue Campus. We are delighted to welcome Leah DeVun (Rutgers University) to speak at this event.
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This lecture focuses on ideas and individuals who allegedly crossed sex or gender categories in Europe from 200–1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, the lecture will explore how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex and gender. In a moment when questions about sex, gender, and identity have become incredibly urgent, the lecture will cast new light on a complex and often contradictory past. It shows how premodern thinkers created a system of sex and embodiment that both anticipates and challenges modern beliefs about what it means to be male, female—and human.
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