HISTORIES OF SEXUALITY

Crowne Plaza Hotel
Newcastle, Australia
21-22nd July, 2011

“Histories of Sexuality” is a conference that will bring together historians and other scholars to consider the multiple and diverse ways sexuality was constructed, articulated and experienced in the past. We aim to draw together established and emerging speakers to think about sexuality in local, national, transnational, postcolonial and global frameworks.

Confirmed speakers at the conference, to be held by the water in Newcastle, Australia, include Matt Houlbrook (Magdalen College, Oxford); Joy Damousi (University of Melbourne); Steven Angelides (Monash University) and Barbara Baird (Flinders University).

Themes we will explore include:

  • Queer sexualities
  • Postcolonial bodies
  • Violence and Sexuality
  • Sexual Communities
  • Emotions and Sexuality
  • Sexual Narratives
  • Model of Intimacy and Family
  • The Containment of Desire
  • Networks, Knowledge and Identities

 

Please contact the conference convenors:
Lisa Featherstone, lisa.featherstone@newcastle.edu.au
Robert Reynolds,  Robert.reynolds@mq.edu.au or
Rebecca Jennings, Rebecca.jennings@mq.edu.au

Postgraduate students are warmly invited to attend, and there will be a postgrad and ECR seminar and get-together on the afternoon of the 20th.

Download draft Histories of Sexuality Program here

To register for the Histories of Sexuality Conference please download and complete the registration form. Return to: Krsity.Atkins@newcastle.edu.au or Linda.Hutchinson@newcastle.edu.au or Fax +61 2 49217818

This conference has been generously funded through the Humanities Research Institute, The University of Newcastle, and the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University.