Classifying Sex: Debating DSM-5
Thursday, 4 July 2013 to Friday, 5 July 2013
Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
The Women's Media Studies Network might find the conference below of interest. The organisers would highly value the contribution of media scholars, as a key theme will be how the identity politics issues will refract through public and media debates.
See http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2076/ for further information
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 financially supported by CRASSH, the Wellcome Trust, the Sexual Divisions Study Group of the British Sociological Association, the French Institute, Northumbria University, the Laboratoire de Sociologie of the University of Lausanne, and The Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES).
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] & [log in to unmask] Posters might range from presentations of published research to student work-in-progress, activist views, or art work.
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