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>From: Margaret Breen <[log in to unmask]>
>
>Subject: CFP: Critical Issues in Sex and Sexuality (Austria) 
>(9/30/05; 11/30/05-12/3/05)
>
>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: [log in to unmask]
>
>Rob Fisher
>Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
>Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
>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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