Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network
BSSN
What is BSSN?
The Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network (BSSN) is an inter-university research network aimed at supporting research and researchers who work on issues of human sexuality within the Universities of Brighton and Sussex and the wider Sussex area.Inaugural Lecture
At the Heart of the Family: Researching Female Couples in Indian Texts and Traditions
Wednesday, 10 October
You are cordially invited to attend the Centre's Inaugural Lecture on Wednesday, 10 October, at 6 pm in the Chowen Lecture Theatre, Brighton and Sussex Medical Building, Ground Floor. A wine and cheese reception will follow.
Inaugural Lecture and a Sussex Lecture:
At the Heart of the Family: Researching Female Couples in Indian Texts and Traditions
Ruth Vanita, University of Montana (USA) and Delhi University (India)
Ruth Vanita is Professor of Liberal Studies at Montana University and is currently on a Fulbright fellowship at Delhi University where she is researching the poetics of gender in 18th-century Hindi and Urdu poetry. She has written, co-authored and edited several books, including Same-Sex Love in India: Readings in Literature and History; Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination, and most recently, Love's Rite: Sex-Sex Marriage in India and the West.
Admission to the event is free.
Other Inaugural Lectures will follow during the academic year.
