Researching intimacy, sexuality & space: Full program
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A free one day workshop in conjunction with Mardi Gras/Queer Thinking
Friday 24 February, University of Sydney
Location: Main Quadrangle, behind the Jacaranda tree: S224, S225 and S204
*To register for Researching Intimacy, Sexuality & Space on the 24th please email: sexualityspace@gmail.com. Please let us know of any access requirements in this email.*
PROGRAM
9.15am S224 Welcome and introductions
9.30am S224 Keynote: Annamarie Jagose, ‘Behaviorism’s Queer Trace: Sexuality and Orgasmic Reconditioning’
10.45 Break
11.00 S224 Plenary: Queer Style: Film, Poetry, Soap Opera
Speakers:
Dr Lee Wallace
Dr Kate Lilley
Dr Melissa Hardie
12.30 Lunch break (BYO)
1.30 – 3.00. Parallel Sessions
1. Transnational Queer S224
Queer thinking and thinking queer in Latin America
F. Serrano-Amaya, M.A. Viteri, & S. Vidal-Ortiz
The diary of an activist abroad: queer transnational flows and activist kinships
Daniel Marshall
Sex, tourism and desire: the emotional labour of gay hospitality
K. Markwell & Gordon Waitt
2. Liminal texts/spaces/events S225
James Franco’s ‘thing’
Adrian Jones
We will eat you, after we eat your children: queer futurity and narrative
Anna Westbrook
Queer Olfactories: Smelling Feeling, Disorientation, Peculiar Pillows
Kurt Bugden
3.00 Break
3.15: S224 Postgraduate panel: Queer methods
Kerryn Drysdale, Jess Kean, Kate O’Halloran + more TBC
Chair: Melissa Gregg (postgrads interested in joining can contact MG)
4.30 Break
5.00: S204 Sydney Ideas Panel: Why Gender Matters
Professor Sara Ahmed, Gilbert Caluya, Jennifer Germon, Annalise Pippard
Chair: Elspeth Probyn
Full details: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2012/why_gender_matters.shtml
6.30 Close – Cash bar on campus
Queer Thinking – Saturday 25 February – Seymour Centre
Featuring Professor Sara Ahmed, ‘Willful Queers: A queer history of the will’ – 7pm
Queer Thinking consists of a number of events on the 25th from 12pm – 8pm
For the full program see: http://www.mardigras.org.au/queerthinking/index.cfm
Bookings are advised.
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