CLASSIFYING SEX: DEBATING DSM-5
CRASSH CONFERENCE - UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE - 4 & 5 JULY 2013
Organised by Robbie Duschinsky (University of Northumbria)
& Véronique Mottier (Jesus College, Cambridge & University of Lausanne)
1.Conference outline:
This conference brings together social and political scientists, feminist scholars, sexologists, psychiatrists, historians of science, as well as mental health practitioners and sexual rights activists to critically explore the sexual classifications produced by the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental Disorders (DSM), published in May 2013. The DSM is the standard reference for the classification of mental disorders, and its first major revision since 1994 is consequently an important global event. The conference will explore which categories of 'normal' and 'abnormal', 'healthy' and 'pathological' sexualities and identities the new manual produces, and critically scrutinise their consequences for diagnostic practices as well as their wider social and political implications. The conference will take place on 4 and 5 July 2013 at the interdisciplinary Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) of the University of Cambridge. It is supported by CRASSH, the Welcome Trust, the Sexual Divisions Study Group of the British Sociological Association, the French Institute, Northumbria University, and the Laboratoire de Sociologie of the University of Lausanne.
The conference venue will be able to stage a number of poster presentations. Conference participants who wish to present their own work (in addition to their participation in the critical dialogues within the conference room) are invited to email a half-page poster proposition by 20 May at the latest (but early applications are encouraged) to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> & [log in to unmask] Posters might range from presentations of published research to student work-in-progress, activist views, or art work.
2-day conference fee including teas and lunches: 50£ (students 25£)
On-line conference registration: xx Crassh weblink here xx
Accommodation: All conference speakers are staying at Jesus College, Cambridge (where a conference drinks reception will also take place). Jesus College has also made available a limited number of rooms for conference delegates at preferential rates. Delegates who need accommodation in Cambridge need to make their own bookings directly on-line:
http://conference.jesus.cam.ac.uk/accommodation/prices-booking-availability <http://conference.jesus.cam.ac.uk/accommodation/prices-booking-availability>
to see availability, please enter the code: VM0307
Dr Zowie Davy
Senior Lecturer
Room 3209 Bridge House
Community and Health Research Unit (CaHRU), Lincoln School of Health and Social Care
Brayford Pool
University of Lincoln
Lincoln
LN6 7TS
Tel 01522 837748
Mob 0781 396 7341
Author of Recognizing Transsexuals: Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment, (Ashgate)
Winner of the 2012 BSA Philip Abram's Memorial Prize.
see: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/PAM.aspx
also available is Bound and Unbound: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Genders and Sexualities
see: http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Bound-and-Unbound--Interdisciplinary-Approaches-to-Genders-and-Sexualities1-84718-539-8.htm
CaHRU Website http://www.cahru.org.uk/
Blog http://zowiedavy.wordpress.com/
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