3rd Global Conference
Wednesday 29th November - Saturday
2nd December 2006
Pugetow Palace, Cracow, Poland
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.2.9)
Wednesday 29th November 2006
from 12.30
Registration
14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Margaret Breen
14:15
Session 1: Cross-disciplinary Conversations 1
Chair: Margaret Breen
Marie-Luise Kohlke
Neo-Victorian Sexsation: Literary Excursions into the 19th Century
Erotic
Jodi O’Brien
The ‘S’ Word: Politics of Sexual Ignorance
15:45 Coffee
16:15
Session 2: How Far is NOT Far Enough?
Chair: Nick Rumens
Claire Gresle-Favier
Abstinence, Welfare, and Self-Control
Rosa Lee
Transsexuals and Gay Marriage: Unraveling the Bias of the Courts
and Offering a New Perspective on Personal Rights
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Recognition, Normalization, and Sexual Rights: The Intersexual
Movement in USA and Europe
17.45
Notices and Announcements
17.50
Wine Reception
Thursday 30th November 2006
09.00
Session 3: Modern Literature and Modern Sex
Chair: Ilana Shiloh
Martha Marianara and Susan McCully
Semiotic Bodies: Love Letters and the Lesbian Erotic
Shani Rousso
Beyond Liminality Towards Similarity: Desire in Contemporary Literature
Izabella Kimak
Importance of Being in Charge: Sexual Initiation and the Discourse of Power
in Abha Dawsar’s Babyji
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Session 4: Public Performance or Inner Reality?
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Cheryl-Ann Potgieter
Imagined (Feminine) Sexualities Restricted by Masculine Bodies And Essentialized
Gender Constructions
Jennifer Tyburczy
Perverting Performances of Collecting and Exhibiting: A Study of Two
US Sex Museums
Margaret Breen
Trust/Trussed/Dressed in Translation
12:30
Lunch
14:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 5a: Negotiating With or Navigating Through Society
Chair: Marie-Luise Kohlke
John Master
All the License They Want: Homophiles Debate the Makings of a
Good Citizen
Yvette Taylor
Un/Civil Partnerships: Class in Lesbian Relationships
Julie Blanchard
Gender, Sexuality, and Fashion: Girls Negotiating Discourses in
School
Session 5b: Turkey: Yesterday and Today
Chair: Peter Guy
Nazan Maksudyan
Foster Child or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in 19th Century
Ottoman Empire
Tuba Demirci
Mother, Husband, and the State: Sexual Education of the Masses
in Late 19th Century Ottoman Empire
Aslý Zengin
Prostituting Margins: A Study on a State Ethnography and Gendered Citizenship
in Turkey
15:30
Coffee
16:00
Session 6a: India Indefatigable
Chair: Mustafa Abdalla
Smita Verma
Gender and Religion: Exploring Sexuality in Globalized India
Aneeeta Rajendran
Portrait of the Lesbian as a Young Woman
Karuna Sharma
Mundane Prostitutes and Divine Wives: the Sexual Economy of India,
1600-1800
Session 6b: Ambiguities Revealed
Chair: Adam Kaasa
Karen Morgan
The Symbolic Violence of ‘Protecting’ Women From Sexual
Abuse
Jonathan Black
Polite Eroticism and Sexual Ambiguity: The Curious Case of Dora
Gordine
Luisa Orza
Erotic Servitude: Slave Unchained
Friday 1st December 2006
11.00
Session 7: Central and Eastern Europe Speak Up
Chair: Yvette Taylor
Kateřina Lišková
Strange Bedfellows: Feminist, Sexological, and Criminological
Discourses on Pornography
Erzsebet (Zsazsa) Barat
Les-being and Identity politics: How to Foster a Safe Space For
Classroom Inquiry About Outlaw Sexual Identities
Sebastian Bartos
Why Cybersex? An Experimental Study of Putative Motivations for
Engaging in Online Sex
12:30
Lunch
14:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 8a: East vs. West
Chair: Katerina Liskova
Marta Mamet-Michalkiewiz
Scheherazade Rediscovered: Sex, Sexuality, and Power in the Arabian
Nights
Mustafa Abdalla
Globalizing Locals, Localizing Globals: Gender and Sexuality on
the ‘Golden’ Beaches of the Sinai
Godwin Siundu
Imagining Manhoods: Voyeurism and Masculine Anxieties in East
African and Asian Fiction
Session 8b: The Catholic Question; the Irish Question
Chair: Julie Blanchard
Jacqui O’Riordan
Sexuality, Identity, and Inequality: Examining the Interaction
of Community, Family, and Relationships
Peter Guy
John Broderick and the Irish Queer Experience
Bridget M. Finn
Women’s Response to the Psychosexual Impact of the Abortion
Experience
15:30
Coffee
16:00
Session 9: Cross-Disciplinary Conversations 2
Chair: Jodi O'Brien
Fiona Peters
Little Love Affairs
Nick Rumens
Best of Friends? Workplace Friendships of Gay Men and Straight
Women
17.30
Sessions End
19:00—Informal dinner
TBA (depending on numbers)
Saturday, 2nd December 2006
09:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 10a: Sexual Spiritualities
Chair: Rob Fisher
Ilana Shiloh
Sex and Divinity in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves
and Flannery O’Connor’s A Temple of the Holy Ghost
Tahseen Béa
Is My Yearning for You Sexual or Spiritual? Cultivating the Divine
Between Us
Benjamin Jacob
Whore, Court, Church and the Origins of Modern Obscenity
Session 10b: Same-Sex Love Before Our Eyes
Chair: Jonathan Black
Daniel Smith
Taste, Sexuality, and Performance: Staging Same-Sex Desire in
18th Century France
Marek Wojtaszek
Molecular and the Molar: Brokeback Mountain and the Burial of
Sexuality
Adam Kaasa
Alberta paints the Small Town Pink: Rural Sexualities in the Wake
of Brokeback Mountain
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Session 11a: Prostitution
Chair: Shalmalee Palekar
Voon Chin Phua
Designing Men: Comparative Personal Brandings Between White American
and Brazilian Online Rent Boys
Alice Sadoghi
Concerning Legal Issues of Sex Work: Legal Status of Female Sex
Workers in Austria and Germany
Session 11b: Ethics and Sexual Regulations
Chair: Rosa Lee
Erin Connell
Expelling Pleasure? Canadian School-Based Sex Education and the
Sexual Regulation of Youth
Brian Heaphy
Theorising Lesbian and Gay Freedoms and Their Limits
Paul Reynolds
Eroticising Ethics or Constructing an Ethics of the Erotic?: Some Reflections
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 12: Performing Sex
Chair: Fiona Peters
Chrystie Myketiak
When to Make It Public or Private: Contextualizing Sexuality in Online Chat
Jan Roddy
Rural-Queer
Shalmalee Palekar
Sudden Clarity Could Kill! A Hypothetic Poetic
15:30
Coffee
16:00
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks
16.30
Conference Ends