All welcome, tickets £10 include lunch and refreshments:
Please contact o.l.m.jenzen to book.
Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies [SCCS] & Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network
[BSSN] one-day conference:
Queer Spiritualities
13th March 2009
University of Sussex, EDB 121
Programme
9.30-10.00 COFFEES AND REGISTRATION
10.00-12.30 THE QUEER SPIRITUAL SPACES RESEARCH PROJECT:
• Prof Sally R. Munt ‘Queer Quakers’
• Dr Kath Browne ‘Dyke Spiritualities at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival’
• Dr Liz Dinnie ‘”Sex and the Spirit”: Sexual Identity amongst New Agers’
• Patrick James ‘Queer Spiritual Spaces – Online’
• Dr Amna Khalid ‘Queer Muslims’
• Dr Sharon Smith ‘How Queer is Buddhism?’
• Dr Heather White ‘Finding Queer Seekers Online (and other accidental discoveries in
the quest for the "non-aligned spiritually curious")’
12.30-1.30 LUNCH (EDB 3rd floor)
1.30-3.10 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
• Dr Andrew Yip (Nottingham)
‘Researching Sexualities and Spiritualities: Some Critical Reflections’
• Prof Stephen Hunt (University of the West of England)
‘The Secular Rhetoric and Strategies of the Christian Anti-Gay Lobby’
3.10-3.40 COFFEE BREAK (EDB 3rd floor)
3.40-4.30 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
• Dr Robert Vanderbeck (Leeds)
‘Global Anglicanism and the Sexuality Debates’
4.30-5.00 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
5.00 WINE RECEPTION (EDB 3rd floor)
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