Intersex: A Disorder of Discourse?
I'm organising this Critical Sexology seminar on Wednesday 3 September 2008, 2pm-6pm.
The venue is Keyworth Centre Lecture Theatre A, London South Bank University, Keyworth Street, London SE1 6NG.
Speakers:
Emily Grabham, University of Kent
“Knitting the Nation, Stitching Permanence:
Intersex Bodies and the Construction of the Nation in Time”
Iain Morland, Cardiff University
“Ways of Reading the Intersex Controversy”
Elizabeth Reis, University of Oregon
“What’s in a Name? History, Medicine, and Intersex”
Respondents:
Sarah Creighton, UCL Hospitals Trust
Lih-Mei Liao, UCL Hospitals Trust
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Genital Cutting in a Globalized Age
I'm co-organising, with Sarah Creighton and Lih-Mei Liao, a major conference in London on 4 July 2008.
The theme of the conference is genital cutting, including surgery for intersex, male circumcision, female genital mutilation, sex reassignment surgery for transsexual people, and genital cosmetic surgery.
The keynote speaker is Cheryl Chase, founder of the Intersex Society of North America.
UPDATE (24 June 08): To see the confirmed programme, please click here.
UPDATE (30 June 08): Sorry, the deadline for registrations has now passed, because we have now confirmed names and numbers with the venue.
Manuscript Reviews
I have reviewed book proposals and manuscripts for publishers such as Ashgate, the British Film Institute, and Palgrave Macmillan, as well as for academic journals including:
The Limit of Queer Theory
Does white shame mark the limit of queer theory?
See my review of Damien W. Riggs, Priscilla, (White) Queen of the Desert: Queer Rights/Race Privilege, published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 13:4 (2007), pp. 597-599.
Click here to visit the journal website; you'll need a subscription to access the review.
Plastic Man: Intersex, Humanism and the Reimer Case
Published in Subject Matters: A Journal of Communications and the Self 3:2/4:1 (2007), pp. 81-98, a special issue on Posthuman Conditions edited by Neil Badmington.
Visitors to this site may be starting to think I am obsessed with plastic.
Click here to visit the Subject Matters journal webpage, or here to read a brief summary of my article.
