[csaa-forum] David Halperin Keynote Address at Queer Asian Sites Conf., Sydney, 21-23 Feb. 2007

[Fran Martin]

With apologies for cross-posting:



Professor David Halperin, W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History
and Theory of Sexuality, University of Michigan, will be a keynote speaker
at the forthcoming international conference of Asian queer studies, ³Queer
Asian Sites², to be held 21-23 February 2007 at the University of
Technology, Sydney, city campus. Prof. Halperin is a world authority on
queer theory and is well known to many in Australia from his period teaching
at the University of NSW in the 1990s.  Prof. Halperin¹s keynote address,
³What Do Gay Men Want? Sex, Risk, and the Inner Life of Male Homosexuality²,
will open the ³Queer Asian Sites² conference at 6 pm on Wednesday 21
February 2007.  
 
(Prof. Halperin¹s address will be a joint keynote speech in conjunction with
the ³Queer Space² conference, also at UTS.)
 
³Queer Asian Sites² will showcase cutting-edge research on gay, lesbian and
transgender communities across Asia. International keynote speakers include
Dr Dédé Oetomo (founder of GAYa Nusantara, Indonesia), Dr Neil Garcia
(University of the Philippines) and Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, Co-Secretary
General of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA).  Rosanna
will speak on ³Sri Lanka in Crisis: The Escalating War and Its Fallout on
the Sri Lankan LGBTIQ Community².  The conference will end on Friday 23
February with a presentation by Taiwanese performance artist Shih-Hue Tu on
butch, femme and ³neutral² lesbian identities in modern Taipei.
 
³Queer Asian Sites, An International Conference of Asian Queer Studies² is
being convened by the AsiaPacifiQueer Network and Trans/forming Cultures at
University of Technology, Sydney, in conjunction with the ³Queer Space:
Centres and Peripheries² conference at UTS on 20-21 February 2007.
 
Full ³Queer Asian Sites² conference details, including confirmed speakers
and registration information, can be found on the conference website:
http://apq.anu.edu.au/qas/
 
A full conference program will be available on this site in January 2007.
 
³Queer Asian Sites² is being convened in partnership with the 2007 Sydney
Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (http://www.mardigras.org.au/).
Special discounted registration rates are available for Mardi Gras members.
(Early bird rates are available for all registrations received before 31
January 2007.)
 
For more information please contact: apq at anu.edu.au

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