2nd Global Conference
Wednesday 30th November - Saturday
3rd December 2005
Vienna, Austria
Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers
The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.
Final Conference Programme (v.1.6)
Wednesday 30th November 2005
From 12.30
Registration
14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Margaret Breen
14.15
Keynote Address
Margaret Breen
Reading for Fantasy in Rip Van Winkle and The Farewell Symphony
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 1: Connecting With Others
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Nicholas Rumens
Work of Friendship: Role and Meaning of Gay Men’s Workplace Friendships
Roshan das Nair
Metaminorities and Mental Health: Pathways of vulnerability for Black
and Minority Ethnic Queer Folk
Aisling Cormack Aboud
Dressed Up in the Latest Drag: Melancholia, Identification, and Group
Formation
17.30
Wine Reception
Thursday 1st December
09.00
Session 2: Sexuality and Citizenship
Chair: Tracy Citeroni
Katie Acosta
Invisible Immigrants: Exploring the Lives of Gays and Lesbians From
Latin America
Dina Giovanelli
Sexual Citizenship in Australia and New Zealand
Nancy Naples
Sexual Citizenship in International Context
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 3: Sex Work
Chair: Nicholas Rumens
Anna Sparrman
Men and Male Sexuality: Upper Secondary Pupils’ Talk About the
Film ‘Lilya4ever’
Bidisha Banerjee
Agency, Resistance and Remapping Prostitute Identity:
A Queer Diasporic Reading of Mira Nair¡'s India
Cabaret
Linda Cusick
Defining Sex Work
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 4: Is There Such a Thing?
Chair: Diane Negra
Nóra Séllei
(Female) Desire and Romantic Art in Anne Bronte’s The Tenant
of Wildfell Hall
Fiona Peters
There is No Sexual Relation
Ruth Martin
Love at a Distance: Kafka and the Sirens
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 5: States of Desire—Geographical
and Religious
Chair: Jodi O'Brien
Suzanne Charles
Sexing the Caribbean: HIV/AIDS as a Problem of Gender and Sexuality
Neil Cochrane
Voicing Gay Experience in South Africa (2002-2005): democratization,
minorities and cyberspace
Ebeneza Nkafu and Forche Michael Nkimbi
Sexual Exploitation: A Form of Human Rights Abuse in Cameroon
Osman Tastan
Joy, Sexuality, and Regulations in the Qur’an and Islamic Law:
The Actual and Promised Contexts
18.00
Sessions End
Friday 2nd December 2005
09.00
Plenary Session:
Jodi O’ Brien
Queer Belongings: Marriage and Marginalization
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 6: SAS In Your Face
Chair: Tamas Benyei
Mel Kohlke
Sexuality in Extremity: Trauma Literature, Violence, and Counter-Erotics
Juan Ramos
Homosexuality, Machismo, and Violence in B. Schroeder’s ‘La
Virgen de los Sicarios’
Andrej Zavrl
Sodomy for Real Men: T.S. Eliot's Homosocial Pornography
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 7: Cheating and Intersexuality
Chair: Jules Sturm
Serena Petrella
Ethical Sluts and Closet Polyamorists: Dissident Eroticism,
Abject Subjects and the Normative Cycle in Self–Help Books on
Free Love
Tracy Citeroni and Michele Chessner
Intellectualizing Betrayal
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Sexual Rights, Recognition Politics, and the Intersexual Movement
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 8: SAS and Cultures
Chair: Fiona Peters
Cristian Melchiorre
Accidental Attachments: Freudian Sexuality and the Theory of Culture
David Bennett
Postmodernising Pornography for the 21st-Century Academy
Silvia Rief
A Sense of Possibility: Female Sexualities in Media Scenarios of Clubbing
17.30
Sessions End
Saturday 3rd December 2005
09.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 9a: SAS and the Body
Chair: Nóra Séllei
Jules Sturm
The Monstrous Body: Cultural Analytic Reflections on Trans-Bodied Experience
in D. Barnes’ “Nightwood”
Shamser Sinha, Anthony Pryce, Shruti Uppal
Where’s the Fun? Sex, Risk, and the Refugee ‘Body’
Astrid Fellner
Sexing the Body: Sentiment, Desire, and the Politics of the Erotic
in Early American Culture
Session 9b: Prisons, Professionals, and the Real
Chair: Neil Cochrane
Agnieszka Weseli-Ginter
How (Not) to Tell About It: Homosexuals and Homosexuality in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau
According to Prisoners’ Relations
Valerie Jenness and Jodi O’Brien
Where’s the Victim? Representations of (Homo) Sexuality in the
U.S. Prison Rape Elimination Act
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 10a: SAS in India
Chair: Silvia Rief
Paul Boyce
Identifying the Subject: Human Rights, HIV/AIDS, and Men Who Have Sex
With Men in Calcutta
Kiran Bhairannavar
Politics of (HOMO) Sexual Identities, Spaces, and Risks of HIV/AIDS:
A Study of Gays in New Delhi
Mizuho Matsuo
Marriage and Politics of Love: How Love and Intimacy
Could be in Case of Infertility in Rural India.
Session 10b: SAS Makes Trouble
Chair: Valerie Jenness
Andrea Hynynen
The Erotic in M. Yourcenar’s ‘Anna Soror….’ and ‘Alexis:’ Transgressions
and Discretion
Tamás Bényei
Love and Passion in J. Winterson’s The Passion
Megan Dahn
Trouble Making/Pleasure Taking: Negotiating Repetition, Imitation,
and Performance in the Work of Ghada Amer
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 11: What Does Love Have to do With It?
Chair: Roshan Nair
Eve-Sabine Zehelein
“Have You just Fallen Madly in Love?”: Sex, Sexuality and
Science in T.C. Boyle’s The Inner Circle
Christian Klesse
Discourses on Love and Intimacy in the ‘West’: Equalising
Intimacy and Racialising Modernity
Shelley Budgeon
Celebrating Singlehood: Heteronormativity and Narratives of Post-Couple
Culture
Diane Negra
Eroticism and the Postfeminist Melancholic
15.45
Coffee Break
16.15
Session 12: Pornography?
Chair: Juan Ramos
Chris Moylan
Sex as Exile: Postmodern Metamorphosis and Erotic Distopia
Katerina Liskova
Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminists Struggling with Porn
Sue Tate
Re-occupying the Erotic Body: The Paintings and 'Performance' of Pauline
Boty, British Pop Artist (1938-66)
17:45
Development Meeting and Conference Close