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.1.9)

Tuesday 20th March
from 09:00
Registration

10.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

10:15
Session 1: Big Questions on Intimacy
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Pauline Johnson
What is Intimacy?

Jessica Mjöberg
Challenging the Idea of Intimacy as Intimate Relationships: Reflections on Intimacy as an Analytical Concept

11:15
Coffee

11:45
Session 2: Large Comparisons on Intimacy
Chair: Rachel Waterstradt

Christopher Grau
The Historicity of Love's Bond

Cinzia Romagnoli
Eros in Chains: Rethinking the Politics of Intimacy, Love and Sexual Behaviour from Marcuse to Contemporary Immunitarian Paradigms

12:45
Lunch

14:15
Concurrent Sessions
Session 3a: Social Structures, Values and Intimacy
Chair: David White

Christopher Swader
Intimate Social Values and Economic Transformation: An Interpretation of Qualitative Interviews from Russia, China, and Eastern Germany

Lorna Savage and Rebecca Mancy
Which Interests are at the Heart of Sex and Relationships Education in Scotland?

Don Love
But is it Haram (Religiously Forbidden) When you do it? A Comparison of the Love Laws for Arabs and Americans

Session 3b: Representations of Intimacy in Contemporary Cinema
Chair: Lucy Butler

Beatriz Oria
When it Comes to Love, it's Luck: The Representation of Contemporary Intimate Culture in Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998)

Elena Oliete
Love beyond Ethnicity: the Problematic Representation of Intercultural Relationships in British and Indian Cinema

Olga Seco
Of Multiple Collisions and Interesting Conflicts. Making Sense of Personal and Interpersonal Relationships in Crash (PaulHaggis, 2004)

15:45
Coffee

16:15

Concurrent Sessions
Session 4a: Self, Knowledge and Intimate Negotiations
Chair: Chad Wolf

Sunny Yang
Lover's Knowledge, Feelings and the Self

Sabine Flick
Care of Self as Demarcation: Everyday Life Practices of Self Care as Intermediation of "Work" and "Life"

Yu Ding
Negotiating Intimacies in an Eroticized Environment: Xiaojies in the Nightclubs, Karaoke Houses and Massage Parlours in South China

Session 4b: Intimate Space, Intimate Geographies
Chair: Niall Hanlon

Jesssica White
Intimacy and Absence across the Globe: The Literary Relationship between Georgiana Molloy and Captain James Mangles

Martina Cvajner
Migrating Sexualities, Migration Romances

Danae McLeod
Transnational Love: Nomadic Youth and their Negotiation of Intimate Relationships

17.45
Notices and Announcements

17.50
Wine Reception

Wednesday 21st March 2007
09.00
Session 5: Problematising Monogamy and Fidelity
Chair: Cinzia Romagnoli

Bryan R. Weaver and Fiona Woollard
Forsaking All Others: Monogamy, Sex and Value

Petula Sik Ying Ho
Happy Swinging: Life Choices of Chinese Men and Women in Hong Kong

Kassia Wosick-Correa
Fidelity, Love, and Sexual Relations: Consensual Non-Monogamous Relationships

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 6a: Alienation, Love and Sex
Chair: Sabine Flick

Rebecca F. Plante
Lonelier Than Ever?: Sexualities, Hooking Up and Post-Millennial Alienation

Ana Amuchástegui
I had a Guilty Conscience because I wasn't Going to Marry Her: Ethical Dilemmas for Mexican Men in their Sexual Relationships with Women

Wayne Cristaudo
Love is Stronger than Death: The Triadic Love of Franz Rosenzweig, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Gritli Huessy

Session 6b: Social Class and Intimacy
Chair: Christopher Swader

Celia Mancillas Bazán
Intimacy and Identity in Mexican Couples when Poverty Prevails

Goh Shuzhen
Love, Sex & In-Between: Being Woman & Middle-Class

Roberto Castro Pérez
Intimacy Intervened: Randomness and Social Norms as Determinants of Intimate Relationships among Mexican Low-Income Men and Women

12:30
Lunch

14:30
Concurrent Sessions
Session 7a: Virtual Intimacies, Casual Sex
Chair: Lorna Savage

Kat Hertlein and Shelley Sendak
Love "Bytes": Internet Infidelity and the Meaning of Intimacy in Computer-Mediated Relationships

Suepattra May
Intimate and Invisible Practices: Intimacy for Women Seeking Casual Sex via the Internet

Session 7b: Otherness and Strangeness
Chair: Bryan R. Weaver

Adam Briggle
Eros and the Lure of the Other: Love on the Line

Momoyo Mitsuno
Exploring Strangeness in the Plurality of Teacher-Student Relationship

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 8: Life Cycles, Love and Intimate Relationships
Chair: Kassia Wosick-Correa

Wayne Leaver
Intimacy at the End of Life

Ana Martins and Luís Coimbra
Attachment, Transition and Work: The Case of the Young Adults

Paul Gilfillan and Rebecca Mancy
An Ethnographic Deconstruction of Sex and Relationships Education

17.30
Sessions End

Thursday 22nd March 2007
09.00
Session 9: Lessons of Love and History
Chair: Fiona Woollard

James Gaines
Comic Intimacy? The Case of Molière

Rachel I. Waterstradt
It is better to have loved … Kierkegaard's Works of Love and Ricoeur's Memory, History, and Forgetting on the Gains and Losses of Loving My Neighbor

Esther Pérez Villalba
No Choice but the Given One: Maggie's Love Option in Hobson´s Choice (Lean, 1954)

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 10a: Self, Intimacies and Friendship
Chair: Adam Briggle

Gabriel Gallego Montes
The Construction of a Feeling: History of Affection and Partnering Between Men in Mexico City

Kerstin Fest
Love and Friendship between Women in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness and The Unlit Lamp

Niall Hanlon
Masculine Identities and Affective Equality; The Role of Love and Care in Men's Lives

Session 10b: Friendship and Trust
Chair: Momoyo Mitsuno

Chad Wolf
Animals: Friendship and Love

Becky C. Brown
I'll look after you if you look after me: Friendship, Family and Intimacy in a hostel for homeless people

Floora Ruokonen
Building Trust in Intimate Relationships: A Philosophical Analysis

12:30
Lunch

14:30
Session 11: Liminal Intimacies
Chair: Rob Fisher

Lucy Butler
Disarticulations: Love, Language and Knowledge in contemporary retellings of the Bluebeard tale

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Disturbing Intimacies: The Micro-Politics of Interviewing the Embodiment of Political Evil

David White
Tell It like It Is: The Importance of Acknowledging Love as a Component of Abnormal Sexuality

16:00
Coffee

16.30
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks

17.00
Conference Close