[csaa-forum] (Re)Figuring Sex: Somatechnical (Re)Visions

[Somatechnics Administrator]

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that the (Re)Figuring Sex: Somatechnical (Re)Visions  
conference is being held this Friday and Saturday, the 20-21st  
November at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street  
Sydney. You can register on the day; registration details are  
available at www.somatechnics.mq.edu.au/conf . Undergraduates pay only  
$10 per day on presentation of their student card.

Below is a list of presenters and paper titles, for your perusal.  
Please contact me if you have any questions!

Cheers,
Jess



Katherine Albury, Brent Beadle, John Rule and Tobin Saunders -  
Undressing Vanessa: Embodying Positive Sexualities at the Chinwag  
Community HIV Treatments forums.

Joseph Angert-Quilter - The Moral Argument Against Pornography in  
Favor of Eroticism

Dani Barley - Survivors, reclamation and the female body modification  
practitioner in the age of the Internet:  A discourse analytic approach.

Tarsh Bates – InterUterine: Exploring the Reprotech Body through an  
interspecies aesthetics of care

Scott Beattie – Between Heaven and Earth: On/Scenity in the  
Photography of ADU

Theodore Bennett – Talking Dirty: Legal Discourse, Sadomasochism and  
the Monopolisation of Meaning

Laura Bissell - “Digital Doubling: The Uncanny in Performance”

Jack Butler – Picturing Genital Embryogenesis: Accurate  
Discriminations and Adequate Frames

Romana Byrne - The scopophilic eye: perverting the aesthetic gaze in  
Mirbeau’s Torture Garden

Sheila L. Cavanagh – Toilet Papers: Trans Subjects, Visual and  
Acoustic Mirrors

Sarah Cefai – Seeing Feeling: Lesbian Visibility beyond Butch-Femme

Ulrika Dahl - Femme as Figuration: Notes towards a (re)vision of femme- 
inine fashion

Sara Davidmann - Transcendent Genders: Private and Public Transsexual  
Experiences

Mark Davis - TechnosexualityTM  and public health in the commercial  
internet

Monika Dryburgh – Self-policing Sleepy Bodies: Panopticism and the  
Gendering of Sleep Roles

Mark Evans – Erotic Plenitude in the Sounds of Russ Meyer

Thomas Foster – Representing Sex, Manhood and Disability in Popular  
Memory of Founding Father, Gouverneur Morris

Emily Grabham: Shaking Mr Jones: Law and Touch

Kellie Greene – Irish Masculinities and Irish Architecture of  
Containment

Greg Hainge – Slicing Up Eyeballs: Cutting, the Body, Film and  
Spectatorship

Erin Harrington – “You will give birth to it”: Pregnancy in  
Contemporary Horror Films

Gwen Haworth – Screening of “She’s a Boy I Knew” plus Q&A

Helena Hill – Male Femininity: Deconstructing Hegemonic Masculinity?

Peta Hinton – Virtual Representations: A Posthuman Politics of Sexual  
Difference

Alison Horbury – Desire in The L Word: A Narrative Space for a Queer  
Imaginary?

Jessica Ison – The Homosexual is not I

Katrina Jaworski – The Male Preserve of Martyrdom: Palestinian Female  
Suicide Bombers in the Australian Press

Lucinda Joura – Rethinking Practices of Cutting: The Contradictory  
Practices of Female Genital Modification

Dion Kagan – Sero-melodrama in Showtime’s Queer as Folk

Aileen Kennedy - The Limits of Consent: The Legal Status of Cosmetic  
Surgery and Voluntary Amputation

Stephen Kerry – A Looking: Intersex in Australia

Thamar Klein – (Re)Figuring Trans* Citizens’ Sex and Gender: The Case  
of South Africa

Anthony Lambert – (Re)Visioning Cross-cultural Encounters: Love, Land  
and a Somatechnics of National Space in Unfinished Sky

David Lenton – Bringing the Male Body Back into Focus

Karmen MacKendrick – Seams and Seeming in Body Art & Cosmetic Surgery

Jasmine McGowan – A New Future? Queer Zombies and Bruce LaBruce

Jodie McNeily - Digital Ecstasis: the flesh of things to come

Michelle Merritt – Phrenological Paranoia: Re-Membering How to Read  
Sociotechnologically Hybridized Bodies

Masafumi Monden – In Praise of Delicate Autonomy: Kamikaze Girls and  
Representations of Gender Fluidity

Monique Mulholland – When Porno meets Hetero: SEXPO, Baby Bratz and  
the Pornification of the Mainstream

Kyja Noack-Lundberg – Straight Ahead in the Grid Pattern City: Public  
Spaces, Design and Heteronormativity

Lara Palombo – Diasporic Women’s Lives: The Embodiment of Political  
Lives

Pascale Hancart Petitet – Vasectomy, Renegotiation for Masculine  
Identities? Anthropological Perspectives on Male Reproductive  
Technology in Cambodia

Irina Pollard – Sex Determination, Brain Sex and Postnatal Personality  
Development: Bioscience/Somaethics Perspective

Katherine Poole – Doing Violence to Someone: S/M, Bodily Limits and  
the Reappropriation of State Power

Lisa Poole – Bisexual Visibility – What do Bisexual Men Look Like?

Holly Randell-Moon – Identity, Power and the Gendered Body in the Work  
of Joss Whedon

Juan J. Rojo – The Donkey Show as Necessary Taboo in the U.S./Mexico  
Borderland

Kellie Sanders – Homosociality in the Twenty-first Century

M. Sean Saunders – “I will be my daughter’s father and Nancy will be  
her mother. We will be a family”: Thomas Beatie and the Discourse of  
the Cold War

Evan Smith – The Trans-Genre: Processes of Identity and Transition in  
Transgender Communities

Penny Spirou – It’s De-Lovely: Audio-Visual Representations of Cole  
Porter and Homosexuality

Elizabeth Stephens – The Age of Pharmacopornography: Sex, Drugs, and  
Biopolitics

Margaret E. Toye – Very Queer … and Yet Not So Queer: ‘Normal  
Appearance’ in Barbara Gowdy’s We So Seldom Look on Love

Marc Trabsky – Eroticism and Death in Orpheus

Hilary Wheaton – ishotmyself: Sex, Desire and Embodiment with a Camera

Can Yalcinkaya – Organs Without Bodies, with a Taste for Human Flesh:  
Genital Horror Films

__________________________
Dr Jessica Cadwallader
Somatechnics Administrator
Y3A 165B
Faculty of Arts
Macquarie University 2109 NSW
www.somatechnics.mq.edu.au
somatechnicsadmin at gmail.com


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