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Sexuality Out of Place
Special Announcement:
The registration
deadline has been extended to March 25th.
The 2006 "Sexuality Out of Place"
conference is focused on examining the relationship of space, place,
and geography with sexuality; it is interested in exploring the
different ways the location of identity plays out when sexuality,
sexual difference, and geography are taken seriously. In keeping
with the over-arching theme of "Globalization" promoted
by Earlham College (and the topic of its 2006 Faculty Retreat),
this conference will welcome graduate work—historical and
contemporary—focused on discourses, narratives, and practices
of sexuality understood through the prism of place and space:
- Why do place and geography matter?
- What does it mean to examine both diasporic and
queer identities?
- How can we theorize and understand such cultural
locations?
- What is the relation between "experience"
and location and its meaning for identity?
- What might the consideration of these issues
mean for a contemporary politics of sex?
- What kind of queer cultural readings emerge?
This conference encourages approaches
that interrogate Western and colonial conceptions of sexuality and
the division between Western and non-Western practices.
Interdisciplinary work is one of the
principles of Earlham College and the motif for this conference,
and proposals from all fields (philosophy, literature, history,
sociology, anthropology, etc.) engaging with issues in such a way
will be given special consideration.
Topics of particular interest include:
- Post-Colonial visions of sexuality
- The relationship of race, gender, and sexuality
- Transnational and migratory sexualities
- Urban (sub)cultures
- Tourism
- Sexual economies
- "Queer Globalization"
- Visual culture and representation
Keynote Speakers
 Dr. Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University, and a recipient of a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2001-2002, and a Tufts Junior Faculty research semester in Fall of 2002. Her research interests include Black Cultural Studies, Visual Arts (particularly African and African Diaspora, including Kara Walker, Robert Colescott, Isaac Julien, Tracey Rose, and others), Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century African American Literature and Culture, and Comparative Studies of Twentieth-century Multi-Ethnic Literatures and Film. She is the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, forthcoming from Duke University Press.
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David M. Halperin, W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is a classicist by training; his early publications were on Hellenistic Greek poetics and ancient Greek philosophy. He works in the history of sexuality, lesbian and gay studies, and feminist and queer theory, and he has played a role in the institutionalization of queer studies within the academy. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Homosexuality , Saint Foucault , and How To Do the History of Homosexuality . Among his courses is the notorious "How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation," which examines gay male sexuality and identity from the perspective not of sex but of social practices and cultural identifications.
(from Women's Studies @ UMich)
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