[Discussion] CFP: Critical Issues in Sex and Sexuality (Austria) (9/30/05; 11/30/05-12/3/05)

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From: Margaret Breen <margaret.breen@uconn.edu>

2nd Global Conference
Critical Issues in Sex and Sexuality

Wednesday 30th November - Saturday 3rd December 2005
Vienna, Austria

Call for Papers
(please cross post where appropriate)

This research and publications conference seeks to examine issues of sex and
sexuality across a range of critical and cultural perspectives, and seeks to
explore the associated contexts of love, desire, intimacy, the erotic, betrayal
and cheating. Seeking to encourage innovative inter- and multidisciplinary
dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from a variety of disciplines, including but
not limited to anthropology, cultural studies, education, gender studies,
history, law, literature, medicine, philosophy, psychology, religion and
theology, sociology and social work. We also welcome contributions from queer
activists and professionals in non-profit and non-government organizations.

In particular papers, workshops, reports, and presentations are invited on any
of the following themes:

1. Sex, Sexuality, and Citizenship
* The political main streaming of lesbian and gay issues, lobbying, queer
activism, transgender movements and transsexual movements
* Sexuality and religion: institutional inclusion/exclusion of sexual
minorities, celibacy, sexuality and spirituality, religion and gender roles
* Sexuality and health issues - HIV/AIDS, medicines, access to
medicines; health care; health education; sexual initiations/rites of passage
* Collective Identities: race, class, gender, and the production of sexuality
* Sexuality and Work: sex work, sexuality and the workplace; sexuality and
power: role playing, legal issues/cases, legislation/policy making

2. Love, Desire, and Intimacy
* Psychoanalysis, cultural studies, interdisciplinary approaches
* What is love, what does it mean to desire, and in what contexts is intimacy
possible? The nature of romance; the contexts of passion.
* Cultural context and media representations - art, cinema, cyber-portrayals,
film, literature, radio, theatre
* Notions of friendship, acquaintance and trust.

3. Sexuality and the Erotic
* Understanding eroticism and the 'erotic': History of the erotic, the erotic
and phases of human development
* National and cultural histories of the erotic:the politics of the erotic
including issues of censorship and transgression
* The erotic imagination: the erotic in art, art history, literature, film and
music
* Gender, bodies and the erotic: sexuality and the erotic; the erotic
and the perverse; eroticism & fetishism, fantasy
* Love, sentiment, romanticism and the erotic: friendship, relationships
and the erotic

4. Love, Sexuality, Betrayal, and Cheating
* Cybersex, private sex and public sex; sexual intimacies; the rise of
technology and the internet; virtual relationships, virtual betrayals
* Cheating and betrayal, (in)fidelity, (dis)honesty and integrity; what
it means to be in a relationship; what it means to be (un)faithful
* Marriage, the marriage 'contract', adultery, break-up, divorce;
'affairs', 'the cheating heart', 'betrayal of confidence'

Papers will be considered on related themes. 300 word abstracts should be
submitted by Friday 30th September 2005. Full draft papers should be submitted
by Friday 18th November 2005.

All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be published in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be
published in a themed hard copy volume.

Papers should be submitted to the organising committee as an email attachment in
Word or WordPerfect; abstracts can also be submitted in the body of the email
text rather than as an attachment.

Organising Committee
Margaret Breen
Department of English, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
e-mail: margaret.breen@uconn.edu

Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
e-mail: rf@inter-disciplinary.net

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/sexuality/sas.htm

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/sexuality/s2/cfp05.htm



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