Dalla Lana School of Public Health

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Presented by the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies and The RISE Centre for Queer and Trans Health …

This conference brings together the historical study of early modernity and asexuality studies as an interdisciplinary academic discipline.

Asexuality studies is a thriving academic discipline, which is invested in understanding how compulsory sexuality organizes society, naturalizing performances of sexual attraction and denigrating or exoticizing sexual indifference or repulsion. By bringing together the study of early modernity and the academic field of asexuality studies, this three-day conference will be the first major academic event to seriously investigate what it means to do asexual history. Fifteen contributors to the forthcoming co-edited collection Early Modern Asexualities will present papers that think through desexualizations and disability, race and colonialism, queer histories, asexual reading, and the long histories of compulsory sexuality. Other events will include an asexual pedagogy roundtable, and a roundtable highlighting local research into historical asexualities.