4th Global Conference
Monday 19th November - Thursday
22nd November 2007
Salzburg, Austria
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.1.1b)
Monday 19th November 2007
from 12.30
Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
14:00
Session 1: Representations
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Aneeta Rajendran
(Un)Familiar Spaces: The Erotic Geographies of the Contemporary Lesbian Indian Novel
David White
What's My Age Again? - Inaccurate Depictions of Child Sexuality on Stage and Screen
Burkay Pasin
Turkish Hamam as an Oriental Representation of the Sexually-Coded Otherness in Contemporary Turkish Metropolitan Life
15:30
Coffee Break
16:00
Session 2: Desire Across Boundaries
Chair: Serena Petrella
Drew Shaw
Sexual (Dis)orientation and the Spartacus Guide to International Travel
Munyaradzi Mushonga
White Power, White Desire: Miscegenation in Southern Rhodesia
Paul Reynolds
Consent versus Harm: Thinking BDSM and the Contingencies and Constraints of ‘Limits’
17:30
Wine Reception
Tuesday 20th November 2007
10:00
Session 3: Theory
Chair: Aneeta Rajendran
Serena Petrella
Eros and Thanatos: Figurations of Erotic Desire in Psychoanalytic, Freudo-Marxist, Cultural and Post-modern theory
Ben Davies
Theoretic and Aesthetic Sexualities: An Analysis of D.H. Lawrence’s Non Fictional Prose as Part of a Modern Sex Discourse
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Session 4: Culture and Institutional Context
Chair: Becky McLaughlin
Allison Reeves
The Impact of Post-Colonial Euro-Christian Culture on the Sexual Identity and Practices of Canadian Aboriginal Women
Diane Klein
Judaism/Same-Sex Marriage; Homosexuality and Jewish Marriage; Reimagining Taharat HaMishpachah
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 5: Intimacy
Chair: Paul Reynolds
Lijun Tang
The Embeddedness of Intimate Relationships: Seafarers’ Partners in Cyberspace
James K. Semones & Lilian M. Romero
Reisman’s The Lonely Crowd Revisited: The Loss of Meaningful Human Connections and Intimacy in a Cyber-Directed World
15:00
Coffee Break
15:30
Session 6: Bodies
Chair: Vince Carr
Amelia R. Brown
Painting the Bodiless: Angels and Eunuchs in Byzantine Art and Culture
Catherine Davies
You Are Who You Eat- The Ingestion and Incorporation of Breastmilk
16:30
Sessions End
Wednesday 21st November 2007
9:30
Session 7: Narrative Constructions
Chair: Allison Reeves
Becky McLaughlin
Big Sex: The Story of the Nail
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Renouncing Sexual Ambiguity: Conservative Politics in the Intersexual Movement
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session 8: Sexual Citizenship
Chair: Lilian M. Romero
Sue J. Dyson
Deficit Subject or Sexual Citizen? Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy and Birth Experiences 1980 – 2000, Victoria, Australia
Alan Wong
Who is Asian?: Representing a Panethnic Continent in Queer Asian Activism and Community Building in Montreal
Lindiwe Gura
South African Women's Constitutional Rights v Sanctity of Life
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Development Meeting
14:30
Conference Ends