[csaa-forum] Conference reminder (abstracts close 27 Jan): StigmaPleasurePractice

[Christy Newman]

FINAL NOTICE: ABSTRACTS CLOSE FRIDAY 27 JANUARY, 2006

The National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR) is proud to announce:

StigmaPleasurePractice, the 9th Social Research Conference on HIV, Hepatitis
C and Related Diseases.

19th-21st April 2006
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

StigmaPleasurePractice will provide a forum to present innovative, reflexive
research on sex and drugs. Sex and drug practices are socially produced yet
are often constituted as personal, private, illicit or even shameful. We
therefore encourage researchers, educators, practitioners and activists to
consider how issues of stigma, pleasure, health and harm intersect in work
on sex and drugs, and how we reconcile or evade these issues. How do we
address health risks and harms without intensifying the stigma of pleasures
on the margin?

Confirmed speakers:      
Gary Dowsett, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society
Dennis Altman, La Trobe University
Sue Kippax, National Centre in HIV Social Research
Elspeth Probyn, University of Sydney
Christos Tsiolkas, author of 'Loaded' and 'Dead Europe'
Gay Hawkins, University of New South Wales
Zoe Sofoulis, University of Western Sydney
Bridget Haire, Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
David Moore, National Drug Research Institute
Ingrid van Beek, Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (Sydney)
Annie Madden, Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users' League
Colin Batrouney, Victorian AIDS Council / Gay Men's Health Centre
Alan Brotherton, NSW Health / AIDS Council of New South Wales

Conference Themes
-  Stigma and shame in relation to current sex and drug practices
-  Pleasure, affect and agency within stigmatised and marginalised
communities
-  Stigma, pleasure and individual responsibility 
-  Researching marginalised practices without reinforcing stigma
-  Distinguishing between pleasure and harm
-  Averting stigma and promoting health 

We also invite speakers to address continuing social research issues in
relation to HIV, hepatitis C and related diseases, with reference to the
main conference themes. 

All potential presenters should prepare an abstract which will be subject to
peer review. We will accept abstracts for oral presentations, symposia,
panels and workshops.

Further information and abstract submission:
Web: http://nchsr.arts.unsw.edu.au/conference2006.html
Email: nchsrconference at unsw.edu.au