Sexual Violence, Medicine, and Psychiatry
An International, Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Relationship Between Medicine, Psychiatry, and Sexual Violence.
Held 16-17 April 2020 at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
ORGANISERS:
Prof Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck (University of London) as well as Global Innovation Chair at the University of Newcastle (NSW). She is PI for a Wellcome Trust funded project entitled ‘Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters’ (SH+ME) and
Prof Philip Dwyer, founding director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, University of Newcastle, NSW
CONFIRMED KEYNOTES:
Steven Angelides, La Trobe University, author of The Fear of Child Sexuality (2019)
Sameena Mulla, Marquette University, author of The Violence of Care (2014)
Andrea Quinlan, University of Waterloo, author The Technoscientific Witness of Rape (2017)
as well as Lisa Featherstone, Andy Kaladelfos, and Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen.