{"id":3,"date":"2026-04-01T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/sexualityandshame\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:26:39","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/sexualityandshame\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexuality and Shame Conference 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>27 and 28 May 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Organised by the University of Exeter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supported by the Wellcome-funded Shame and Medicine Project and part of the Sexual Knowledge Unit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This two-day conference in Exeter explores how sexuality and shame is produced, experienced, and interpreted across historical, cultural, and social contexts. Bringing together research from history, the arts, literature, philosophy, and creative practice, it examines how sexual norms and stigma are shaped through institutions, everyday life, and systems of representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A central concern is that sexual shame is rarely directly articulated. Instead, it emerges through silence, euphemism, narrative displacement, and affect, requiring careful interpretation. The programme therefore places equal emphasis on lived experience as on the methodological challenges of studying what is partial, coded, or obscured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across panels, workshops, and practice-based sessions, the conference considers how shame is generated through discourse, circulated through social and cultural forms, and negotiated by individuals and communities. It also highlights innovative approaches to analysing these processes, including comparative discourse analysis and embodied, material methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By moving between empirical research, theoretical reflection, and experimental practice, the conference positions sexual shame not only as a social phenomenon, but as a problem of evidence, interpretation, and ethical responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>SPEAKERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"395\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/sexualityandshame\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/767\/2026\/04\/1000042866-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/sexualityandshame\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/767\/2026\/04\/1000042866-4.jpg 395w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/sexualityandshame\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/767\/2026\/04\/1000042866-4-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>HANNAH CHARNOCK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAPER: <em>Shameful Heterosexualities in Twentieth-century Britain.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hannah explores the intimate and emotional lives of teenage girls in modern Britain, focusing on how sexuality, reputation, and social norms were negotiated within peer cultures. Her work draws on personal and archival sources to reveal how young women actively shaped their own understandings of intimacy, desire and shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 25%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>WANNES DUPONT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAPER: <em>Shame and the Making of \u2018A Strange Love\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wannes examines the history of male homosexuality in modern Europe through a transnational lens, focusing on how knowledge about sexuality was produced, circulated, and unevenly understood. His work foregrounds the role of silence, ambiguity, and \u201cunwillingness to know\u201d in shaping how same-sex desire was historically regulated and interpreted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/sexualityandshame\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/767\/2026\/04\/86232be7-42bf-43c2-a248-8b75710538e6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/sexualityandshame\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/767\/2026\/04\/86232be7-42bf-43c2-a248-8b75710538e6.jpg 538w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/sexualityandshame\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/767\/2026\/04\/86232be7-42bf-43c2-a248-8b75710538e6-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fsexuality-and-shame-conference-2026-tickets-1984760717735%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator%26keep_tld%3Dtrue&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cat1034%40exeter.ac.uk%7Ca515b897c8a94caab14308de9030ed2b%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C639106736973656091%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=QT3JmcZxL3Gyapmg6Ikw6G5KQbBQ3u1BwZFIv6eWWD8%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><strong>APPLY TO ATTEND HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 and 28 May 2026 Organised by the University of Exeter Supported by the Wellcome-funded Shame and Medicine Project and part of the Sexual Knowledge Unit About the Conference This two-day conference in Exeter explores how sexuality and shame is produced, experienced, and interpreted across historical, cultural, and social contexts. 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