[Discussion] UPDATE: Cybersexualities (grad) (2/12/05, (dis)junctions, 4/8/05-4/9/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Submissions deadline extended to February 12, 2005.

(dis)juctions:  theory reloaded (april 8-9, 2005)

CYBERSEXUALITIES:  SEX, IDENTITY, AND DESIRE IN VIRTUAL SPACES

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at
(dis)juctions: theory reloaded at the University of California,
Riverside=92s 12th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 8-9, 20=
05.

In 1995, sociologist Sherry Turkle called the Internet a =93social
laboratory,=94 which has had far-reaching implications for theorists of
identity, desire, sexualities, and genders. Taking Turkle=92s =91utopian=92
impulse, scholars such as Allucquere Rosanne Stone and Sue-Ellen Case,
among others, have theorized cyberspace as a space of visionary escape
from the material body, in which identity-play is the norm and
non-heteronormative sexualities find haven.

 From an early 1990s ad in The Advocate proclaiming =93There are no close=
ts in
cyberspace=94; to the over 8 million subscribers to Internet Dating sites
such as Match.com; to Pornography being one of the most profitable
commercial ventures on the Internet, sexuality on the Internet seems to
be in need of analysis.

Contributors are invited to submit papers on any aspect of new media
which relates to the function of sexuality.  Potential areas of analysis
include (but are not limited to):

Internet Dating
Cybersex
Internet Pornography
Queer communities and sex
Race and sex on the Internet
Mainstream versus Marginal dating/sex communities

This panel is extending the work of the global_interface workshop, an
ongoing colloquium on digital arts and new media at UCR made possible by
a Mellon grant. Throughout the year, global_interface promotes
discussion of such international and interdisciplinary issues as video
games, intelligent robotics, Afrofuturism, post-humanism, digital music,
and online sexuality. For more information about the global_interface
workshop at UCR, please  visit our web site at
http://globalinterface.blogspot.com

One page abstracts should be e-mailed to global_interface@hotmail.com by
February 12, 2005 (text in the body of the message; please no
attachments). The submissions should be no longer than 250 words.

Proposals send via snail mail should be sent to:
(dis)junctions
UCR=92s Twelfth Annual Humanities Graduate Conference
Department of English
UC Riverside
Riverside, CA  92521-0323

For more information on the conference, please visit:
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/



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