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Conference Announcement and Call for Participation
“SEXUALITY AND SPACE”
Preconference of the Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting
Sponsored by the Sexuality and Space Specialty Group
of the AAG and the School of Social Sciences and
Department of Geography at Sonoma State University
Date: April 17, 2007
Venue: The Women’s Building, 3543 18th Street, San
Francisco, CA
The aim of this one-day conference is to bring
together scholars working in a range of fields to
explore the topic of “Sexuality and Space”.
For more than a decade, geographers have recognized
the sexualization of space and the spatialization of
sexuality. From an initial emphasis on gay and
lesbian urban spaces in the ‘west’, the geographical
study of sexualities has expanded to incorporate such
topics as queer movements and activism in multiple
sites, nationalism, public health, heterosexualities,
transgenderism, tourism, heteronormativities,
homonormativities, globalization, the ‘pink’ market,
migration and mobilities, geopolitics, cyberspace,
embodiment, and rural and non-metropolitan
sexualities. We seek to further broaden and deepen
scholarship on sexuality and space by inviting
contributions that explore these topics and as many
more as participants’ imaginations permit.
In the spirit of interdisciplinary engagement that has
been pivotal to the growth of this geographical
sub-field, this invitation to grapple with such
geographical concerns as space, place, mobilities,
landscape and environment is extended to sexuality
studies scholars working across the humanities and
social sciences. At the same time, this event is an
opportunity for critical geographers working in any of
the discipline’s sub-fields of cultural, political,
economic, urban and feminist geography to explore the
ways in which discourses and practices of sexual
normativities and non-normativities are part of the
production of space at various scales and sites.
Work on any geographical site, historical period, and
topic of geographical relevance is welcome. We are
particularly interested in contributions that examine
“sexuality and space” from the interstices of multiple
approaches including queer, feminist, postcolonial,
critical race and materialist theories.
Proposals for all manner of papers, panels,
multi-media or other presentations will be considered.
Please send abstracts (250 words) and proposals for
panel or other presentations to Natalie Oswin
([log in to unmask]) by December 1.
Enquiries and expressions of interest can be directed
to any member of the organizing committee:
Michael Brown, Department of Geography, University of
Washington ([log in to unmask])
Lawrence Knopp, Department of Geography, University of
Minnesota-Duluth ([log in to unmask])
Natalie Oswin, Department of Geography, National
University of Singapore ([log in to unmask])
Damon Scott, Department of Geography, Sonoma State
University ([log in to unmask])
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