http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2076/
'Classifying Sex: Debating DSM-5' 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), to be 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.
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.
The conference 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).
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