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Teema: 	ESF workshop--invitation
Kuupäev: 	Wed, 12 May 2010 13:56:08 +0100
Kellelt: 	Ide Corley <[log in to unmask]>
Kellele: 	Aet Annist <[log in to unmask]>



Dear Dr Aet Annist,
I'm writing as the principal convenor of a European Science Foundation 
workshop entitled "Multiple Modernities of Same-Sex Sexuality in 
Nigeria" to be held at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth in 
August 18-20, 2010. As sexuality has recently become a flashpoint in 
African public culture, the purpose of the event is to gather 
scholars in either African or sexuality studies, or both, from across 
Europe and provide them with an opportunity both to debate the current 
research and to formulate plans for follow-up research activities and/or 
collaborative actions. Any scholar who is interested in dissident 
sexualities, the question of the human or human rights, how 
globalization effects intimate relations and related topics would be 
most welcome. We seek 100-150 word proposals for papers (15-20 minutes 
long) from interested scholars *as soon as possible* and attach 
the project description here.
In the case that a proposal is successful, a formal invitation from the 
European Science Foundation will follow. We will offer to reimburse 
travel costs up to the value of E250 subject to the provision of 
receipts. Accommodation for two nights at the Maynooth Campus Conference 
Centre will be provided as well as lunches and dinners for the three-day 
duration of the workshop. Further information on the ESF can be found at 
this link: http://www.esf.org/activities/exploratory-workshops.html

The following speakers, among others, have been confirmed:

*Rudolf Gaudio (USA)* is a Professor of Anthropology at Purchase 
College, State University of New York. Building on his long-term 
research on language and society in Africa and elsewhere, his research 
now pays attention to media, popular culture, and public policy as well. 
He recently published a book, /Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an 
Islamic African City 
<http://www.amazon.com/Allah-Made-New-Directions-Ethnography/dp/1405152524>, 
/which is about feminine men in northern Nigeria. His newest research 
focuses on Nigerian Pidgin (a language that combines words and grammar 
from English and various African languages) and the way it is being used 
by migrants to Nigeria’s capital city as well as in hip-hop music, film, 
and other popular media.

*Neville Hoad* is Associate Professor of English at the University of 
Texas at Austin. He is interested in nineteenth-century British 
literature, Victorian anthropology and sexology, Darwin and social 
Darwinism, feminism in imperialism, anglophone postcolonial literature 
and theory, South African literature, critical race studies, queer 
theory, and international human rights law, among other subjects. He is 
the author of /African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and 
Globalization/ (2007), and the co-editor of /Sex and Politics in South 
Africa: Equality/the Gay and Lesbian Movement/the Struggle/ (2005).

*Madhavi Menon* is Associate Professor of Literature at American 
University. She is the author of /Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality 
in English Renaissance Drama/ (University of Toronto Press, 2004), which 
explores how Renaissance rhetoric manuals encounter and present desire; 
and of /Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean 
Literature and Film/ (Palgrave, 2008), a polemical inquiry into the 
methodologies within which we study desire. She is also the editor of 
/Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to The Complete Works of Shakespeare/ 
(Duke UP, 2010), which is the first book to put queer theory in 
conversation with every one of Shakespeare's poems and plays.

*Elina Oinas* a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Turku, 
Finland. She has been a visiting scholar at the Women and Gender Studies 
Departments at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa (2002, 
2003) and the University of California, Berkeley (2005-2006). She is 
author of /Making Sense of the Teenage Body--Sociological Perspectives 
on Girls, Changing Bodies, and Knowledge/ (Abo Akademi U P, 2001) and of 
a number of articles on agency, empowerment and victimhood in feminist 
writings on HIV and gender in Africa. She is also co-editor of the 
/Nordic Journal of Women's Studies/.

*Steven Pierce* is a Lecturer in History at the University of 
Manchester. His first book, /Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: 
Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination /(Indiana UP, 2005) is a study of 
the colonial government of northern Nigeria, looking at the way in which 
rights in land became the primary idiom for governing small-scale 
farmers. With Anupama Rao, he has co-edited /Discipline and the Other 
Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism, /a collection of essays 
which examines the relationship between bodily violence and categories 
of difference such as race, religion, and gender, tracing the intimate 
relationship between strategies of governance and often-intertwined 
discourses of humanitarianism and bigotry. His most recent work focuses 
on the history of humanitarianism and human rights.


*Caroline Rooney* is Director for the Centre for Colonial and 
Postcolonial Research at the University of Kent. Her most recent book 
/Decolonising Gender/ (Routledge, 2007) offers a critique of the 
performative reifications of language and gender from a postcolonial 
perspective, showing how poetic realist writing endeavours to engage in 
non-essentialist affirmations of the collective beyond identity 
politics. Her previous book, /African Literature, Animism and Politics/ 
(Routledge, 2000), explores the positing of an unthinkable Africa in 
colonial discourse and further explores how African literature reflects 
and may be inflected by a consciousness of African philosophy. She has 
long-standing theoretical interests in deconstruction and 
psychoanalysis, with articles in this area published in the Oxford 
Literary Review and Angelaki.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at this 
email address ([log in to unmask] 
<[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">https://myce.nuim.ie/uwc/webmail/java_script:main.compose%28%27new%27,[log in to unmask]>) 
or by telephone at 011 353 1 4908004.

Kind regards,

Íde Corley

Íde Corley, PhD
Lecturer in English
School of English, Media and Theatre Studies
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland

Tel +353 1 708 3515
Fax + 353 1 708 6418



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