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Past Events
Untying Development's Straightjacket: Masculinities, Sexualities and Social Change
Dates: 18 Sep 2009 - 22 September 2009This four-day symposium will bring together theorists, researchers, activists, policy actors and practitioners working on gender and development, men and masculinities, HIV prevention, gender violence and sexual rights.
Why Is Development So Straight?
Dates: 21 Jul 2009Time: 9.00am - 5.00pm
A one-day workshop bringing together practitioners, policy makers, activists, and academics.
Strange Bedfellows? Sex and International Development
Dates: 1 Jul 2009Time: 17.00 - 19.00
Committee Room 19, Palace of Westminster with speakers: Susie Jolly, IDS; Xiaopei He, Pink Space, Sexuality Research Centre, Beijing; Ruth Morgan Thomas, Global Network of Sex Workers/Paulo Longo Research Initiative; and Felicity Daly, Interact Worldwide.
Cleavage on the Queer Body: Light, Law and a Politics of Ambiguity
Dates: 22 May 2009Time: 13.00 - 14.30
Speaker: Akshay Khanna, University of Edinburgh
All welcome.
Sexuality and Development Workshop 2008
Dates: 10 Apr 2008How do development interventions impact on people's sexualities? And how can development agencies move towards more constructive engagement with sexuality? These were the topic of discussion in IDS from 3-5 April, for more than 70 workshop participants from a range of activist groups, NGOs, universities, government bodies and donor organisations worldwide.
'Queering Development Seminar Series' 2000-2001
Dates: 20 Feb 2000 - 31 May 2001Why is development so straight? Sexuality is often ignored in development studies or practice, or if included, conceived of as a narrow form of heterosexuality. In early 2000 a group of students and staff at IDS got together to talk about this.