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    3rd Global Conference:
Sex and Sexuality - Exploring Critical Issues
Wednesday 29th November - Saturday 2nd December 2006
Cracow, Poland

Call for Papers
(please cross post where appropriate)

This research conference seeks to examine issues
of sexuality across a range of critical and
cultural perspectives.  Seeking to encourage
innovative inter- and multidisciplinary dialogues,
we warmly welcome papers from a variety of
disciplines, including but not limited to
anthropology, cultural studies, education, gender
studies, history, law, literature, medicine,
psychology, religion, sociology and social work.
We also welcome contributions from queer
activists and professionals in non-profit and
non-government organizations.

In particular papers, workshops, reports, and
presentations are invited on any of the following
themes:

1. Sexuality and Citizenship
* The political main streaming of lesbian and gay
issues, lobbying, queer activism, transgender
movements and transsexual movements
* Sexuality and the work place: sexuality and power
* Sex and education
* Sexuality, legal issues and policy making
* Sexuality and health; health care; health education
* Sexual initiations/rites of passage
* Sexuality, spirituality and religion

2. Sexuality and the Erotic
* Understanding eroticism and the 'erotic': the
history of the erotic, the erotic and phases of
human development
* National and cultural histories of the erotic:
the politics of the erotic including issues of
censorship and transgression
* The erotic imagination: the erotic in art, art
history, literature, film and music
* Gender, bodies and the erotic: sexuality and the
erotic; the erotic and the perverse; eroticism &
fetishism, fantasy
* Role playing, eroticed/be-eroticised body, the
erotic and (neo)colonialism, pornography

3. Anonymity and Intimacy
* Cybersex, public sex, private sex
* Technology, virtuality and sexuality
* Sexual intimacies
* Cheating and betrayal
* Sex work

4. Love, Desire and Theory
* Queer theory
* Feminisms
* Transtheory
* Psychoanalysis
* Cultural studies
* Interdisciplinary approaches

Papers will be considered on related themes. 300
word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 22nd
September 2006. Full draft papers should be
submitted by Friday 17th November 2006.

All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be published in an ISBN eBook.
Selected papers accepted for and presented at the
conference will be published in a themed hard copy
volume.

Papers should be submitted to the organising
committee as an email attachment in Word or
WordPerfect; abstracts can also be submitted in
the body of the email text rather than as an
attachment.

Margaret Breen
Department of English, 
University of Connecticut, 
Storrs, CT, USA
E-Mail: margaret.breen at uconn.edu

Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
E-Mail: sas3 at inter-disciplinary.net

The conference aims to bring together people from
different contexts, disciplines, professions and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions that are innovative and exciting.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/sexuality/sas.htm

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/sexuality/s3/cfp.html


 		
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