Schedule
Seminar 1
March 21, 2002: Transgender Bodies Mollie Thomson Room, Library, Macquarie University
4:00PM - 6:00PM*
Speakers
Judith Halberstam, "Under the Knife: Representations of the Transgender Body in Contemporary Art"
Nikki Sullivan, "Transmogrification/Perverse Embodiment"
Chair
Susan Knabe
Welcome
Dr. Mitchell Dean, Division Head, SCMP
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Seminar 2
April 18, 2002: Managing Sex in PublicBuilding W6A, Level 1, Room 107
4:00PM - 6:00PM*
Speakers
Alan McKee, "How to Show Men Not-Kissing on Television"
Katherine Albury, "Public Sex and Non-Compulsory Heterosexuality"
Chair
Wendy Pearson
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Seminar 3
May 16, 2002: Speculating on SexW6A 107
4:00PM - 6:00PM*
Speakers
Cathy Hawkins, "'I'm a Stranger Here Myself': Ripley and the Alien Movies."
Wendy Pearson, "(Fear of a) Queer Galaxy: Is Sexuality SF's Final Frontier?"
Chair
Nikki Sullivan
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Seminar 4
August 16, 2002: Thinking SexMollie Thomson Room
Speakers
Gary Dowsett, "Abjection, Objection, Subjection: Unbending the gay male citizen."
Melissa Hardie, "Eve Sedgwick, Redacted."
Chair
Joseph Pugliese
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Seminar 5
September 19, 2002: Making MenW6A 107
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Speakers
Michael Flood, "Bonding in bonking: How homosociality shapes men's heterosexual relations "
Chair
Daniel Nourry
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Seminar 6
October 31, 2002: (E)strange/d DesiresSenate Room
Rm 310
Lincoln Building
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Speakers
Leigh Dale. "Did Jesus teach that we should pluck out our eyes?"
Sexuality, Spirituality and Self-mutilation in Tsiolkas' The Jesus Man"
Barbara Creed. "Bestiality and Desire."
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Chair
Nadine Ehlers
* NB: There will be a reception from 6:00 - 7:00 PM after each seminar.