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>> *** GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW CONFERENCE 1998 ***
>>
>> *** "REFLECTIONS: NEW DIRECTIONS" ***
>>
>> *** 19-21 JUNE 1998 ***
>>
>> > The Keele University Research Investment Scheme has announced
>> > funding for a major international, interdisciplinary conference to
>> > be held at Keele from 19-21 June 1998.
>> >
>> Confirmed plenary speakers are: Jacqueline Alexander; Susan Boyd; Angela
>> Harris; Ratna Kapur; Ruthann Robson; Carol Smart; and Jeffrey Weeks.
>>
>> > The themes of this conference, "Reflections: New Directions"
>> > encapsulates a range of issues and concerns which will inform this
>> > three-day gathering. The developments in feminist legal theory,
>> > queer legal theory and critical race theory have exposed the
>> > complex and often fluid relationship between law and the
>> > construction of the sexed and gendered subject. Building on this
>> > work, the GSL98 Conference aims to explore the construction of gender
>> > and sexuality as it is situated at the intersection of multiple
>> > bodies of knowledge. In addition, issues of social and economic
>> > class, physical ability, religion, and other relations of power
>> > will be explored in terms of their relationship to gendered and
>> > sexualised identities. This conference will bring together people
>> > from all parts of the globe who are working on gender, sexuality
>> > and law to provide a forum in which to review the current position
>> > of scholarship in this area and to question where it is and should
>> > be going. Among the themes to be addressed and developed are:
>> >
>> > *globalisation and the postcolonial condition
>> > *citizenship and rights discourse
>> > *medicalisation of the legal subject
>> > *revisiting consent
>> > *AIDS/HIV
>> > *the body and the sexual subject of law
>> > *bridging the theory/activist divide
>> > *law, literature and film
>> > *feminities/masculinities
>> > *transgendered subjectivities
>> > *legal education and the "straight" subjects
>> > *connections between legal discourse and identity politics
>> > *international law
>> > *right-wing movements
>> > *child sexuality
>> > *race, religion and ethnicity
>> > *violence
>> > *law and psychoanalysis
>> > *poverty and capitalism
>> >
>> > This list, however, is far from exhaustive and theoretically
>> > informedpapers are welcome on any related topic. Offers of papers
>> > (200 word abstracts) should be received by the Gender,Sexuality and
>> > Law Research Group (GSL98) by 31 December 1997.
>>
>> Further information and registration forms are available from:
>>
>> Web Page: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/la/GSL98.htm
>>
>> Email: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> GSL98 Conference
>> Department of Law
>> Keele University
>> Staffordshire ST5 5BG
>> United Kingdom
>>
>> Tel: 01782-583218
>> Fax: 01782-583228
>>
>>
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N i c k B l o m l e y
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6,
CANADA
(604) 291-3713 (tel)
(604) 291-5841 (fax)
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For information on the Inaugural International Conference in Critical Geography
see http://www.geog.ubc.ca/iiccg
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