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Healing Hearts: A poetry film presented at the Shameless! Festival

06 May 202211 May 2022
SHaME team
Shameless! Festival
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Healing Hearts is a short film of poetry created by a young women's group from The Lighthouse Service in North London, filmmaker Sunnah Khan, Clinical Psychologists Dr Anna Churcher Clarke and Dr Isabella Girling, and Assistant Psychologist George Yerbury.

Book Launch: Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication

05 May 202218 May 2022
SHaME team
Events
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On 28 April 2022, SHaME presented the official book launch of Associate Prof Sameena Mulla and Associate Prof Heather Hlavka's 'Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication' (New York University Press). Heather and Sameena were joined in conversation by host Prof Joanna Bourke and guests Assistant Prof April Petillo, Dr Gethin Rees, and Prof M Gabriela Torres.

Book Launch: Trailing Abuse: Considering Historical Representations of Sexual Violence Against Children

17 Dec 202118 May 2022
SHaME team
Events
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On 14 December 2021, SHaME closed its 2021 Events Calendar with the official book launch of Dr Nick Basannavar’s ‘Sexual Violence Against Children in Britain Since 1965: Trailing Abuse’ (Palgrave Macmillan). Nick was joined in conversation by host Professor Joanna Bourke (Principal Investigator at SHaME) and guests Professor Adrian Bingham (Sheffield) and Professor Rachel Hope Cleves (Victoria).

CFP: Films on Medical or Psychiatry Aspects of Sexual Violence

02 Dec 202102 Dec 2021
SHaME team
Public Engagement
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SHaME is pleased to present a Call for Proposals for filmmakers to create films linked to the themes of medical or psychiatry aspects of sexual violence.

Shameless! Festival Toolkit for Activism

27 Nov 202117 May 2022
SHaME team
Shameless! Festival
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SHaME and WOW have collaboratively assembled an essential activism kit to mark the launch of the Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence. From simple actions to recommended reading, we are excited to have you join us in the movement to create a world free from sexual violence.

Shameless! Festival Schedule

24 Nov 202128 Mar 2022
SHaME team
Shameless! Festival
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The SHaME and WOW teams are thrilled to share the schedule for the first ever Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence on November 27th at Battersea Arts Centre. The festival schedule features artists, activists, and scholars covering issues including the normalisation of sexual violence, rape myths, consent, everyday triggers, and survival.

We Learn From and We Support

We Learn From and We Support At SHaME, our research is enhanced by maintaining connections to the important work being done on sexual violence outside...

Job Ad: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

05 Aug 202107 Sep 2021
SHaME team
Research
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SHaME are recruiting a postdoctoral research fellow to join our interdisciplinary team from October 2021 or January 2022.

SHaME @ Bloomsbury Festival 2020 Recap

01 Jul 202101 Jul 2021
SHaME team
Public Engagement
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SHaME researchers contributed two events to Bloomsbury Festival 2020, which took place 16-25 October 2020.
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‘You’re not listening’ : Reports on survivors’ experiences with UK health professionals

22 Jun 202122 Jun 2021
SHaME team
Research
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Anna Weedon, an experienced children’s rights practitioner and manager, and research assistant with SHaME, discusses her research findings on survivors' experiences with health professionals in the UK since the late 1960s.

CFP: Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence

17 Jun 202105 Aug 2021
SHaME team
Shameless! Festival
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SHaME is pleased to present a Call for Proposals for public engagement activities for our upcoming Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence, co-produced with The WOW Foundation.
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‘Curing’ Homosexuality through Medicine: An Indian Perspective

16 Jun 2021
SHaME team
Research
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Rianna Price, PhD Candidate at Lancaster University, discusses her research into the debates, understandings, and issues for queer Indians during the last 3 decades of the twentieth century.

Writing, Researching, and Surviving Sexual Trauma: A Creative Response

07 Jun 202122 Jun 2021
SHaME team
Public Engagement
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On 26 May 2021, SHaME closed its Writer in Residence Programme with Winnie M Li with a public panel and creative performance event with poet Clare Shaw, SHaME academics Professor Joanna Bourke and Dr Ruth Beecher, and our Writer in Residence Winnie M Li.

Literature and Sexual Trauma: Authors Writing Their Lived Experience

24 May 2021
SHaME team
Public Engagement
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On 14 April 2021, SHaME continued its Writer in Residence Programme with a public event featuring a distinguished panel of award-winning authors who spoke about transforming their own lived experiences of sexual violence into different forms of literature. Our guests were graphic writer Una, philosopher and memoirist Susan J. Brison and poet Shivanee Ramlochan.

Sexual Violence, Medicine, and Psychiatry Symposium

25 Mar 202110 Jun 2021
SHaME team
Conferences
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SHaME is holding an online international, interdisciplinary academic symposium to explore the relationship between Medicine, Psychiatry, and Sexual Violence.

Sexual Violence and Criminal Justice: Approaches in Psychology, History, and Literature

11 Mar 202116 Mar 2021
SHaME team
Public Engagement
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SHaME launched its Writer in Residence Programme with a special In Conversation Event with Professor Amina Memon, Writer in Residence Winnie M Li, and SHaME Principal Investigator Professor Joanna Bourke.

SHaME x Winnie M Li

16 Feb 202105 Nov 2021
SHaME team
Public Engagement
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SHaME welcomes author and activist Winnie M Li for a Writer In Residence Programme taking place online across March - May 2021.

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