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"Sexuality Out of Place", March 31-April 01, 2006
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"Sexuality Out of Place" graduate interdisciplinary conference
Location: Indiana, United States

"Sexuality Out of Place"
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
March 31-April 01, 2006

This conference will examine the relationshipn of space, place, and geograph
with sexuality and explore the different articulations of identity when
sexuality, sexual difference, geography are taken seriously. This conference
encourages approaches that interrogate Western and colonial conceptions of
sexuality and discourse, narratives, and practices of Western and non-Western
ideas of sexuality: what does it mean to examine both diasporic and queer
identities? How can we theorize and understand such cultural locations? What
might the consideration of these issues mean for a contemporary politics of sex?
What kind of queer cultural readings emerge?

Topics of particular interest include:

--Post-colonial visions of sexuality
--The relationship of race, gender, and sexuality
--Transnational or migratory sexualities
--Urban (sub)cultures
--Tourism
--"Queer Globalization"
--Visual Culture and Representation.

Proposals from all fields are encouraged.

Keynote speaker will be: Prof. David Halperin, University of Michigan
Second keynote speaker to be announced.

Please send an abstract proposal of no more than 350 words as well as
institutional affiliation and brief C.V to: ecsexuality2006@gmail.com by
December 01, 2005.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.earlham.edu/~sexconf/