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Call for Presentations - Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction, Past and Present

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Call for Presentations

Controlling Sexuality and Reproduction,
Past and Present

August 12-14, 2015
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
 
Confirmed Keynotes Speakers
 
Paul A. Lombardo http://law.gsu.edu/profile/paul-lombardo/
Dorothy E. Roberts http://law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/roberts1/

Sexuality and its effects, as Michel Foucault once claimed, operate as dense transfer points of power relations. As such, states, institutions and citizen groups have been and continue to be deeply concerned with producing an ideal, normative citizenry by controlling sex, sexuality and reproduction.

Certain kinds of sexuality and certain kinds of sexual actors are more likely than others to be policed and contained. In the past and in the current context, marginalized people and practices have been subject to containment, harassment, prosecution or ‘correction’ in terms of their sexual and reproductive lives. These practices have included the classification or sorting of peoples in the following ways:

as disabled,
as sexually or gender deviant
as Aboriginal or members of a racialized group
as members of non-normative family forms,
as inmates, in prisons, asylums  and other institutional sites,
as dependent on the welfare state,
as  engaging in non-heteronormative sexual practices
as involved in sex work and/or sex surrogacy
Historical and current-context efforts at containment of those classified accordingly have included:

eugenics, or the involuntary sterilization of disabled people, imprisoned people and members of indigenous and other racialized groups;
policing and prosecuting polygynous and polygamous family forms
heteronormative surveillance, policing and regulation of queer and trans* people
the protectionism, infantilization or demonization of disabled or mad people
limiting support and access to disabled people’s sexual and familial lives
regulation and prosecution of sex workers and sex surrogates 
chemical and medical interventions in prisons, institutions, hospitals, and asylums
segregation through residential schools and other institutions
segregation and containment embedded in community practice, and in immigration policy
informal practices of violence, abuse, and/or exclusion
The conference seeks to explore and challenge the seeming naturalness of historical and current efforts to control and marginalize certain kinds of sex and reproduction, and to illuminate commonalities and differences amongst these various efforts to police sexual, reproductive and family lives. We ask why and how particular sets of behaviours or peoples are targets of control, and thus seek to examine what kinds of ‘normal’ values are being upheld. We encourage presentations that illuminate the production of ableism, heteronormativity, Whiteness, gender, and ideal citizenship.

In addition to academic papers, we are interested in opening up a platform for the discussion of personal experiences of sexual and reproductive control, experiences of resistance, and the engagement of community and self-advocacy groups in working toward inclusive and positive sexual and reproductive models. We welcome proposals from community members, activists and advocates. Non-traditional presentations are encouraged, including performances, oral history presentations, and roundtable discussions on any of the following themes:

Law, Ethics and Sexual/Reproductive Control, Past and Present
Eugenics and state sanctioned sterilisation
Legislation of specific family forms
Family, disability, immigration and welfare policy as informal means of control
Sex work, sex surrogacy and the state
Practices affecting First Nations people concerning family rights and reproductive capacity
Medicine and Sexual/Reproductive Control, Past and Present
Prenatal screening and genetic counseling
Differential access to Assistive Reproductive Technologies based on sexuality, disability, age, marital status, class, religion or citizenship
The use of chemical restraints to control desire and fertility in prison and institutional populations and targeted community groups
Social Services and Sexual/Reproductive Control, Past and Present
Formalized means of reproductive control  in the welfare state – family, disability and welfare policy
Guardianship arrangements, autonomy and sexual and reproductive freedom
Funding arrangements that preclude sexual agency or family autonomy
Representation and Controlling Sexuality, Past and Present
Visual culture, current and historical
Moving images – television, film, video, theatre, performance, digital landscapes
Narratives and Oral Histories of survivorship
We encourage single paper submissions to facilitate the construction of multidisciplinary panels. Proposals for multidisciplinary panels are also welcome. Graduate students are encouraged to contribute posters on their current research. 250 word abstracts for single papers or individual presentations, and 500 words for panels should be submitted by midnight, February 15, 2015.  Abstracts should be submitted through the conference website; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s),
b)   affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme,
c)   email address,
d)   title of abstract,
e)   body of abstract,
f)   up to 10 keywords

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). Please note presentations should be a maximum of 15 minutes in length. Each speaker will have 20 minutes for presentation and discussion.

The conference aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed edited volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference.

For further details of the conference and to submit an abstract, please visit:

 
https://www.uleth.ca/conreg/controlling-sexuality/
 
 
 
Claudia Malacrida
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
University of Lethbridge
UHall A-890, 4401 University Drive
Lethbridge, Alberta
Canada T1K 3M4
 
Tel: (403) 329-2738
Fax: (403) 329-2085
email: [log in to unmask]
 
http://directory.uleth.ca/users/claudia.malacrida?no_headers=1
http://uleth.academia.edu/claudiamalacrida
http://www.eugenicsnewgenics.com

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