Dr Corinna Wagner
Senior Lecturer
Extension: 4322
Telephone: 01392 724322
I am in the Department of English and the History of Art and Visual Cultures programme. Please click on the links in the sidebar to see my research profile, publications and CV.
On this page, I list upcoming public events.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
website for this:
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=694
SELF-PORTRAIT WITHOUT BREASTS
aesthetics and surgical experience
Poet Clare Best recites from her book Excisions (nominated for the Seamus Heaney Prize 2012), exploring preventative double mastectomy.
A panel will follow with Professor Janet Reibstein (Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, author of Staying Alive: A Family Memoir), Dr James Mackay (UCL, the only accredited UK Consultant Medical Oncologist specialising in clinical cancer genetics) and Dr Corinna Wagner (Department of English, Exeter, author of Pathological Bodies: Medicine and Politics) and Audience Q&A.
Followed by a wine reception alongside an exhibition of stunning photographs by Laura Stevens of Clare Best’s project.
Tuesday 27th November 2012 at 6.30 pm
Lecture Theatre 1, Queen’s Building
Streatham Campus, Exeter University
and exhibition / wine reception at 8.00 pm
in the new Exeter Forum
(Free Entrance)
“A fine cycle of sustained self-examination, both physical and spiritual.”
Michael Hulse, Warwick University.
“Unpredictable, erotic and philosophically demanding.”
Jackie Wills, poet.
“A clear-eyed scrutiny that takes us beyond what we usually mean by grief
into something far more unusual and more bracing.”
Susan Wicks, poet and novelist.
Hosted by Dr Andy Brown (Director of Creative Writing)
for Exeter University’s Medical Humanities Theme and
the new Humanities and Social Science Research Strategy.
IN ADDITION:
Erotica, Pornography and the Obscene in Europe
University of Warwick, UK. April 10-12, 2013.
This three day interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars of all levels who discuss material oft talked about, rarely read. The conference aims to draw out key debates in the study of erotica, pornography and the obscene, in the context of sex and sexuality in Europe, 1600-1900. The conference organisers welcome research papers on literature, print, objects, philosophy or individuals that deal directly with material that has been considered ‘hidden’ away or perceived to be ‘unfit for modest ears’.
Confirmed speakers:
Dr. Lisa Z. Sigel, DePaul University, Chicago USA
Dr. Caroline Warman, Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK
Dr. Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter, UK
Dr Andy Brown (University of Exeter, UK)
Emily Dubberley (founder of Cliterati.co.uk)
Dr Julie Peakman University of London, Birkbeck College, UK
Dr Feona Attwood Sheffield Hallum University, UK
Dr Harriet Palfreyman University of Warwick, UK
Topics and questions considered could include, but are by no means limited to:
- The Marquis de Sade in the British context.
- The influence of the Obscene Publications Act (1857) on the printing industry.
- The relationship between text and visual representation.
- Representations of bawdy and lewd houses.
- The distribution of clandestine works.
- Sex and Politics
- Or, any paper on intellectual or moral theory surrounding the theme of this conference.
Please submit a 250 word abstract for a 20-25min paper by 19th October to A.V.Burnham@warwick.ac.uk
Day three of this conference seeks to bring together academic research with current cultural and social debates surrounding the theme of this conference.
This organiser welcomes submissions for round table discussion, readings or papers on topics such as, but by no mean limited to:
- The Sex Industry
- The Regualtion of Pornography
- UK and European Law
- Religious and Moral Concerns
- Sexualities
Please submit an abstract or proposal, with an estimated time plan, by the 19th October to A.V.Burnham@warwick.ac.uk
In addition, if you would like to attend this event as a member of the audience, please register your interest also with the organiser at A.V.Burnham@gmail.com
For the latest information please go to
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/emforum/events/erotica
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