From: "C.F. Stychin" Subject: Gender, Sexuality and Law Conference To: QUEERPLANET@abacus.oxy.edu Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 09:39:42 +0100 (BST) GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND LAW CONFERENCE "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, United Kingdom, from 19-21 June 1998. Confirmed plenary speakers are: Jacqueline Alexander; Susan Boyd; Angela Harris; Ratna Kapur; Ruthann Robson; Carol Smart; and Jeffrey Weeks. 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; femininities/masculinities; transgendered subjectivities; legal education and the "straight" subjects; connections between legal discourse and identity politics; international law; right wing movements; children and sexuality; race, religion, and ethnicity; violence; law and psychoanalysis; and poverty and capitalism. Theoretically informed papers are welcome on any related topic. Offers of papers (one page abstracts) should be received by the Gender, Sexuality and Law Research Group (GSL) (organisers of the Conference) by 31 December 1997. Further information and registration forms are available from: GSL Conference, Department of Law, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, United Kingdom. Tel: 01782-583218; Fax: 01782-583228; email: < GSL98@keele.ac.uk >; web page: < www.keele.ac.uk/depts/la/GSL98.htm >. The members of the GSL are: Doris Buss; Kathy de Gama; Didi Herman; Daniel Monk; Sally Sheldon; Carl Stychin; Michael Thomson; and Noel Whitty. *** PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED ***.