This seminar will consider policy and practice in health and social care within a broader context of issues relating to embodiment, body image and bodily practices associated with the LGBT communities.

Will be held: 23rd October 2009 (Events listing)

Themes include:

• Transgendered embodiment and body-related negotiations and exchanges with therapists and medical practitioners
• Innovative approaches to engaging with issues of image and the body through performance and the arts
• Questions of heteronormativity and homonormativity in relation to disability, ageing and gender
• Formal and informal networks of support, help and care within LGBT

Venue
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Directions

Details on accommodation in Aberdeen can be requested from Richard Ward.

Speakers include:

This seminar will host the launch of the Scottish Government’s Hearts and Minds Agenda (presentation by Hilary Third, Scottish Government Equality Unit)

Professor Arnie Grossman, New York University
Professor Jo Clifford, Writer and performer
Dr Lyndsey Myskow, Psychosexual Therapist, Lothian NHS