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The University of Birmingham Gender and Sexuality Forum, Roles, is pleased to publish the provisional programme for the forthcoming Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Postgraduate Colloquium, 11th May 2012. To register for the event visit http://groles.wordpress.com/register-for-roles-colloquium/ To keep up to date with Roles and join in discussions, see @groles on Twitter, https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Roles-An-Interdisciplinary-gender-and-sexuality-forum-University-of-Birmingham/112091238914983 on Facebook, and groles.wordpress.com for our blog. Programme 9-9.30 Registration 9.30-10.30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ann Phoenix (IOE, London) 10.45-12.15 Parallel panels 1. Re-presenting the Self: (Auto)biographical, Portrait, and Cultural Envisions Anne Burns (Loughborough) Photographic portraiture and the performance of femininity Claire Largan (Birmingham) ‘That’s the summit with a flag on top and the sun shining on the flag’; using respondent-generated images to explore the experiences of mature, part-time, female students on a Foundation degree Holly Pike (Birmingham) Negotiating Representation: Paratextual Readability in Spanish Women's Prison Testimonios 2. Representing the ‘Non Binary’: Queerness, Alter sex, and Gay Images Jeremy Bradley (Leicester) If It Bleeds It Leads: Woolf, Queerness, and Empathy Jennifer Loh (SOAS) An Archetypal ‘Third Sex’? The Hijras of India Barbara De Vivo (La Spaienza, Rome) Bad romance: gay and lesbian national inclusion in contemporary Italy 1.15-2.15 Plenary 3. Gender and Identity in/at War Rachel Slater (Birmingham) Gender and Sexuality: Special Court on Sierra Leone and the implications for Refugee Law Suzanne Dufour (Paris) Women in the Algerian war and the trouble with identity 2.3-4 Parallel panels 4. Presenting the ‘Ideal Other’: Social and Cultural Images of Identity Elena Lipsos (Exeter) Eroticism, Eugenics and the Streamlined Petty Girl in 1930s America Nadia Siddiqui (Birmingham) Women’s magazines as ‘Mental Chocolate’ for readers Nabamita Das (Birmingham) ‘Intimate’? Expressions: Narratives of Middle Class Urbanites of Contemporary Bengal, India 5. Writing the ‘Other’: Literary Representations of Gender Paul Humphrey (Birmingham) One Plus One Equals Three: Vodou’s sacred marasa twins as a model for moving beyond sexual binaries and reconstituting the self in contemporary Haitian literature Almudena María Gómez Seoane (Liverpool) And Elaine became the knight: the unattainable love in Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur Tracey Morse (Liverpool) Carlos Víves and the representations of gender in Angeles Mastretta’s Arráncame la vida 4.30-5.30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Lisa Downing (Exeter/Birmingham) For more information please see the attached programme. Best wishes, Ali Amirmoayed on behalf of Roles ____________________________ Ali Amirmoayed Doctoral Researcher in Sociology POLSIS, School of Government and Society University of Birmingham Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK Blog: http://aliamirmoayed.com/