International online launch event of CISG (Contemporary Intimacies, Sexualities and Genders Research Group) with Prof Diane Richardson and Dr Ana Cristina Santos.

CISG is part of RCASS, the Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University.

This online event launches CISG with a debate on current issues in intimate and sexual citizenship studies.

The intensity of social struggles around difference and diversity regarding intimate and family practices, sexual and gender identification, expression and presentation points to significance of personal life to democracy and politics, locally and transnationally.

Sexual and Intimate citizenship matter.

CISG has formed to address these issues through topical cutting-edge research and critical debate.

We are proud to host the internationally renowned scholars Prof Diane Richardson (University of Newcastle, UK) and Dr Ana Cristina Santos (University of Coimbra, Portugal) to speak on current perspectives within intimate and sexual citizenship studies.

Prof Diane Richardson (Sociology, University of Newcastle) is a world-renowned scholar of feminism, gender and sexuality, and author of the influential book Sexuality and Citizenship (2018, Polity).

Dr Ana Cristina Santos is Principal Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, led the influential 2014-2019 ERC-funded study ‘INTIMATE - Citizenship, Care and Choice: The micropolitics of intimacy in Southern Europe’ and is co-author of The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate citizenship regimes in a changing Europe (2020, UCL Press).

Programme

• 1:00 PM (BST): WELCOME
  Prof Malcolm Press (Vice Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University)
  Prof Craig Young (Director of RCASS)
  
  
• 1:15 PM: KEYNOTES AND RESPONSE
  Prof Diane Richardson (Keynote on SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP)
  Dr Ana Cristina Santos (Keynote on INITIMATE CITIZENSHIP)
  Dr Christian Klesse (RESPONSE by Panel Chair)
  
  
• 2:15 PM: Q&A and DISCUSSION
  
  
• 3:00 PM: CLOSURE and FAREWELL

Please register on Eventbrite

Joining details will be confirmed by email to registered attendees closer to the date.

Questions can be directed to Jenny van Hooff or Christian Klesse