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6th Global Conference
Sexualities: Bodies, Desires, Practices
(formerly Persons and Sexuality)
Tuesday 10th November - Thursday 12th November 2009
Salzburg, Austria
Call for Papers
How do we understand the different desires and
pleasures that people engage in, and by which they
define who they are and how they interact
with others? How do we conceive of and make sense
of different sexualities beyond simple and often
flawed notions of 'normal' and 'abnormal' or
'deviant' or 'paraphiliac'? What is at stake when
we discuss sex and sexuality in the context of
embodiment and the material (and messy)
physicality of sex play? How do desires,
identities, behaviours and practices interplay in
sexual expressions in contemporary life? What
challenging questions do we face in researching
and theorising about sexuality in the 21st Century?
The study of sexuality has developed significantly
over the last 20 years and this revamping of the
'persons and sexuality' conference seeks to shift
focus from issues of identity and orientations in
a sometimes hostile world (though these issues are still
important and papers are still sought on them!!!)
to explore issues of how people make sense of
and express their different sexualities in
contemporary life. The project seeks to develop a
space for discussion and debate about the
interplay of identities, orientations, desires,
pleasures, taboos, relations, behaviours and
practices of sex and sexuality across a range
of critical, contextual and cultural perspectives.
Seeking to encourage innovative, creative, inter,
multi and post disciplinary dialogues in national
and global contexts, we welcome papers from all
disciplines, professions and vocations which
struggle to understand what it is to be sexual and
how sex and sexuality has a social as well as
private dimension. We particularly welcome papers
that explore the creative spaces where biology,
sexology, psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology,
arts and humanities, philosophy and contemporary –
social constructionist, queer – critiques collide,
oppose, conjoin and intermesh.
We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of
papers, workshop proposals and other forms of
performance – recognising that different
disciplines express themselves in different
mediums - and seek submissions on any of the
following themes:
1. Sexual Spatialities
• The public and private interlacing of
sexuality; accounting for the link between social
and intimate identities and sexuality
• What are the limits and scope to defining
ourselves in social spaces through our desires
• Pre-modern, modern and postmodern sexualities
and their expressions
• Sexuality, belonging and the alien; the
local, social, national and international
• Structures, institutions and systems;
economics, commodities and sexuality; work and
sexuality
• Acts and interactions; representations and
symbols; space and time
2. Bodies and Desire, Lust and Sex
• Bonds of lust and desire; unleashing and
containing; unlocking and repressing
• Body rituals and the exchange of fluids:
aesthetics, explorations, games, representations
• Fucking, sucking, penetrating, engulfing,
petting, biting, rubbing, licking, touching, kissing
• The secular and the religious; the heretical
and the sacred and their place in our desires
• Norms that rule our sexual lives; the death
or killing of desire and lust
• Persons re-inventing their bodies, desires
and lust; re-invention of sex and sexual beings?
• Embodiment, bodies and mapping desires in flesh
3. Sex in the 21st Century
• Web sex and virtual sex
• The new technologies of sex
• Sex, symbols and sex toys: vibrators are a
girls best friend?
• Sexual diversity – scope and limits?
• Sex, health and safety and the impact of
technologies and medicine
• Changing technologies, changing
understandings of the sexual?
4. Love, Relationships, Detachment and Sex
• From marriage to fuck buddies – sexual
relationships
• The entanglements of romance and desire, sex
and social relations, love and pleasure.
• The meaning in sexual relationships:
commitment, respect, exchange, use
• Hooking-up, casual sex, one-night stands; sex
with strangers, what was your name again?
• Cyber-sex, phone-sex; virtual sex and sexuality
• Isolation, loneliness, estrangement and
sexual deprivation
• Pleasures of the self; masturbation as
detached sex?
• Detachment and the destruction of trust;
betrayal, cheating and infidelity
• Separation, mourning and bereavement;
unlinking, unloving and unsexing
5. Uncomfortable Territories
• Violence and sex; sexual abuse; abjection and
sexuality; subjection and the sexual self
• Sex and animals, sex and pets; sex, desire
and love across species boundaries
• Family, blood bonds and sex within boundaries
of kinship; desire, sex and incest
• Sex games and sexual play that make people
uncomfortable
• Scatological desire and sex; death, lust and sex
• Dislocated, homeless, disassociated, uprooted
sex, desire and lust
6. Narrative, Aesthetic and Creative Representations
• The theatre of sex and sexual beings; sex on
stage and on the stage of life
• Dreams, fantasies and desire; symbols,
meaning and the unconscious
• Unfixing sexual categories of the self
through art and artistic creation and narratives
• The grammar of lust and desire in artistic
creation and representation
• Pornography and the erotic: artistic
representation, aesthetic and creative
virtue, narrative displacement?
• Is there a creation of new sexual
territories by way of art and the aesthetic realm?
7. Identity Politics: Recognition, Citizenship and
Rights
• Inequality, power relations, domination and
sexuality
• Normalisation and the good sexual citizen;
dissidence and the refusal to comply
• Homogeneity and heterogeneity, sameness and
diversity, identity and fluid sexualities
• The other from within; unfixed sexualities,
fluid identities; a sexual ethics for our times
• Social movements and their impact on rights
and institutional change
• Sexual freedom, personhood, resistance and
rebellion
Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
3rd July 2009. If an abstract is accepted
for the conference, a full draft paper or
equivalent should be developed and submitted by
Friday 9th October 2009. The draft paper should be
of no more than 8 or 9 pages long and ready for a
20 minute (maximum) presentation during the
conference. 300 word abstracts should be
submitted simultaneously to both Organising
Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats
with the following information and in this order:
author(s), affiliation, email address, title of
abstract, body of abstract.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
answer to all paper or panel proposals submitted.
If you do not receive a reply from us in a
week you should assume we did not receive your
proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We
suggest, then, to look for an alternative
electronic route or resend.
Organising Committee
Paul Reynolds
Reader in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Centre Director, Centre for Research Ethics and
Ethical Deliberation
Edge Hill University
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
The conference is part of the 'Transformations
Hub' within the Critical Issues programmes of
Inter-Disciplinary.Net. All papers accepted for
and presented at this conference are eligible for
publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may
be invited to form other publications dependent on
the quality and coherence of the papers. Papers
are also eligible for consideration for the new
Global Journal of Sexuality, Sensuality and the Erotic,
being launched in autumn 2009.
For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/transformations/persons-and-sexuality/
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/transformations/persons-and-sexuality/call-for-papers/
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