(Re)Figuring Sex: Somatechnical (Re)Visions

18 octobre 2009

(Re)Figuring Sex: Somatechnical (Re)Visions

Somatechnics

Queering the Technologisation of Bodies

Edited by Nikki Sullivan, Macquarie University, Australia and Samantha Murray, Macquarie University, Australia
Published : October 2009
Binding : Hardback
Price : £60.00 » Online: £54.00

(Re)Figuring Sex: Somatechnical (Re)Visions

Draft Timetable as at 13^th October 2009

Thursday November 19^th

Exhibition Opening: (Re)Imag(in)ing SomaSex

and launch of S. Murray and N. Sullivan (eds.) Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies (Ashgate)

Venue: Macquarie University Gallery

Time 7pm

Day 1 (Friday November 20th)

8am-9am Registration

9am-10.30am Keynote Address: Dr Ulrika Dahl, Room 1

10.30am-11am Morning Tea

11am-1.00pm Parallel Sessions

Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5
SEX, SOUND, AND VISION Chair:	SM Chair:	SEX AND THE CAMERA Chair:	PORNIFICATION Chair:
Penny Spirou – It’s De-Lovely: Audio-Visual Representations of Cole Porter and Homosexuality	Katherine Poole – Doing Violence to Someone: S/M, Bodily Limits and the Reappropriation of State Power	Hilary Wheaton – ishotmyself: Sex, Desire and Embodiment with a Camera	Elizabeth Stephens – The Age of Pharmacopornography: Sex, Drugs, and Biolpolitics
Mark Evans – Erotic Plenitude in the Sounds of Russ Meyer	Theodore Bennett – Talking Dirty: Legal Discourse, Sadomasochism and the Monopolisation of Meaning	Scott Beattie – Between Heaven and Earth: On/Scenity in the Photography of ADU	Juan J. Rojo – The Donkey Show as Necessary Taboo in the U.S./Mexico Borderland
Sheila L. Cavanagh – Toilet Papers: Trans Subjects, Visual and Acoustic Mirrors	Romana Byrne – The Scopophilic Eye: Perverting the Aesthetic Gaze in Mirbeau’s Torture Garden		Monique Mulholland – When Porno meets Hetero: SEXPO, Baby Bratz and the Pornification of the Mainstream

1pm-2pm Lunch

2pm-4pm Parallel Sessions

Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5
	REIMAG(IN)ING ‘SAME-SEX’ RELATIONS Chair:	RETHINKING BODY MODIFICATION Chair:	RE-ENVISAGING MASCULINITIES Chair:	(RE)FIGURING TRANS* Chair:
SCREENING	Kellie Sanders – Homosociality in the Twenty-first Century	Karmen MacKendrick – Seams and Seeming in Body Art & Cosmetic Surgery	David Lenton – Bringing the Male Body Back into Focus	Sveva Magaraggia – Italian Transsexual Documentaries: Trans-forming Identities?
	Sarah Cefai – Feeling Interruption: Visual ‘Representation’ in Lesbian Identity Politic and Feeling Post-Queer	Dani Barley – Survivors, reclamation and the Female Body Modification Practitioner in the Age of the Internet: A Discourse Analysis Approach	Fintan Walsh – Mothers and Sons – Queer Relationality in Undressing My Mother	Thamar Klein – (Re)Figuring Trans* Citizens’ Sex and Gender: The Case of South Africa
	Liz Airton – Butch/femme Embodiment as Somatechnology: Challenging the Separateness of Gender Identity and Expression	Aileen Kennedy - The Limits of Consent: The Legal Status of Cosmetic Surgery and Voluntary Amputation	Thomas Foster – Representing Sex, Manhood and Disability in Popular Memory of Founding Father, Gouverneur Morris	M. Sean Saunders – “I will be my daughter’s father and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family”: Thomas Beatie and the Discourse of the Cold War

4-4.30pm afternoon tea

4.30-6.30pm

Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5
	FEMININITY AND POPULAR CULTURE Chair:	PERFORMING SEX Chair:	SEEING MASCULINITIES OTHERWISE? Chair:	ART AND INTERVENTION Chair:
SCREENING	Elisabeth Dahlbourg Lyckhage – Construction of Femininity in Television	Laura Bissell – Digital Doubling: The Uncanny in Performance	Lisa Poole – Bisexual Visibility – What do Bisexual Men Look Like?	Jack Butler – Picturing Genital Embryogenesis: Accurate Discriminations and Adequate Frames
	Masafumi Monden – Title TBA	Kath Albury – Undressing Vanessa: Embodying Positive Sexualities in the Chinwag Community HIV Treatment Forums	Helena Hill – Male Femininity: Deconstructing Hegemonic Masculinity?	Tarsh Bates – Exploring the Reprotech Body Through and Interspecies Aesthetics of Care
	Tiina Vares and Sue Jackson – Performativities of Identities: ‘Tweens’, Popular Culture and Bedroom Spaces	Jodie McNeily - TBA	Katrina Jaworrrksi – “The Male Preserve of Martyrdom: Palestinian Female Suicide Bombers in the Australian Press	Jennifer Hall – The Neurophenomenological Particulars of Interactive Art Installation

Day 2 (Saturday November 21st)

8.00am-9.00am Registration

9.00-11am Parallel Sessions

Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5
	GENDER TRANS/FORMATIONS Chair:	QUEER TV? Chair:	POST/HYBRID BODIES Chair:	HORROR/SEX/BODIES Chair:
SCREENING	Irina Pollard – Sex Determination, Brain Sex and the Transgendered: Bioscience/Soma-Ethics Perspectives	Anita Brady – Constituting Queer : Performativity and Commodity Culture	Peta Hinton – Virtual Representations: A Posthuman Politics of Sexual Difference	Greg Hainge – Slicing Up Eyeballs: Cutting, the Body, Film and Spectatorship
	Evan Smith – The Trans-Genre: Processes of Identity and Transition in Transgender Communities	Dion Hagan – Sero-melodrama in Showtime’s Queer as Folk	Michelle Merritt – Phrenological Paranoia: Re-Membering How to Read Sociotechnologically Hybridized Bodies	Can Yalcinkaya – Organs Without Bodies, with a Taste for Human Flesh: Genital Horror Films
		Alison Horbury – Desire in a Queer Symbolic: The L Word, Representation, and the Potential for a Queer Imaginary?	Anthony Clair Wagner – On Elves, Beasts and Intervention in Normative Imaginaries	Erin Harrington – “You will give birth to it”: Pregnancy in Contemporary Horror Films

11-11.30am Morning Tea

11.30-1.30 Parallel Sessions

Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5
	BODY POLITICS Chair:	SEX AND SPACE Chair:	TOUCHY SUBJECTS Chair	QUEER BODIES/BEINGS? Chair:
SCREENING	Stephen Kerry – A Looking: Intersex in Australia	Sarah Taynton – Abortion and its Spaces: Medical Abortion, the Home and the ‘Identifiable Foetus’	Emily Grabham: Shaking Mr Jones: Law and Touch	Margaret E. Toye – Very Queer … and Yet Not So Queer: ‘Normal Appearance’ in Barbara Gowdy’s We So Seldom Look on Love
SCREENING	Lucinda Joura – Title TBA	Kyja Noack-Lundberg – Straight Ahead in the Grid Pattern City: Public Spaces, Design and Hetronormativity	Jordy Jones - Marked	Holly Randell-Moon – Identity, Power and the Gendered Body in the Work of Joss Wheadon
SCREENING	Pascale Hancart Petitet – Vasectomy, Renegotiation for Masculine Identities? Anthropological Perspectives on Male Reproductive Technology in Cambodia	Kellie Greene – Title TBA	Rita Alphonso – Permeability and Impermeability in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus	Jasmine McGowan – A New Future? Queer Zombies and Bruce LaBruce

1.30-2.30pm Lunch

2.30-4.30 Parallel Sessions

Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5
FILMAKERS ON FILM Chair: Cath Simpson	ART, POP CULUTRE, SEX AND POLITICS	SPACE AND RACIALISATION Chair:	SEX, DEATH AND SLEEPING	QUEERING MASCULINITY? Chair:
Cath Simpson - TBA	Lauren Edwards – A Feminist Critique of the Symbolist Androgyne and the Hermaphrodite Figure and the Significance to Art, Identity and Body Politics	Anthony Lambert – (Re)Visioning Cross-cultural Encounters: Love, Land and a Somatechnics of National Space in Unfinished Sky	Marc Trabsky – Eroticism and Death in Orpheus	Annie Potts and Jovian Parry – Vegan Sexuality: Challenging Heteronormative Masculinity Through Meat-Free Sex
Janet Merriwether - TBA	Joseph Angert-Quilter – Refiguring Sex	Bobby Benedicto – Bright Lights, Fast Bodies: The Body-Terminal in Gay Manila	Jessica Ison – The Homosexual is not I	Anirban Roy – Beauty Industry and Trans-Culture: Revisiting Economies of Body, Sexuality and Masculinity
Maungauika Trilogy – Moana Nepia	Hilarie Roseman – TV Entertainment: The Visual Reception of Human Sexuality Messages Without Embodiment	Lara Palombo – Diasporic Women’s Lives: The Embodiment of Political Lives	Monica Dryburgh – Self-policing Sleepy Bodies: Panopticism and the Gendering of Sleep Roles	Em McAvan – Do Angels Have Sex? Or, Doing Gender Without A Referent