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All welcome, tickets £10 include lunch and refreshments: Please contact o.l.m.jenzen to book. Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies [SCCS] & Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network [BSSN] one-day conference: Queer Spiritualities 13th March 2009 University of Sussex, EDB 121 Programme 9.30-10.00 COFFEES AND REGISTRATION 10.00-12.30 THE QUEER SPIRITUAL SPACES RESEARCH PROJECT: • Prof Sally R. Munt ‘Queer Quakers’ • Dr Kath Browne ‘Dyke Spiritualities at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival’ • Dr Liz Dinnie ‘”Sex and the Spirit”: Sexual Identity amongst New Agers’ • Patrick James ‘Queer Spiritual Spaces – Online’ • Dr Amna Khalid ‘Queer Muslims’ • Dr Sharon Smith ‘How Queer is Buddhism?’ • Dr Heather White ‘Finding Queer Seekers Online (and other accidental discoveries in the quest for the "non-aligned spiritually curious")’ 12.30-1.30 LUNCH (EDB 3rd floor) 1.30-3.10 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS • Dr Andrew Yip (Nottingham) ‘Researching Sexualities and Spiritualities: Some Critical Reflections’ • Prof Stephen Hunt (University of the West of England) ‘The Secular Rhetoric and Strategies of the Christian Anti-Gay Lobby’ 3.10-3.40 COFFEE BREAK (EDB 3rd floor) 3.40-4.30 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS • Dr Robert Vanderbeck (Leeds) ‘Global Anglicanism and the Sexuality Debates’ 4.30-5.00 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION 5.00 WINE RECEPTION (EDB 3rd floor)