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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000>The
Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, together
with the CRN’s Identities and Communities node, is delighted to announce the
upcoming workshop:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000>Glocalising Sex & Gender: Consumption, Culture,
Practice<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000>Thursday
26<SUP>th</SUP> – Friday 27<SUP>th</SUP> February, Redfern Town Hall,
Sydney.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Over the
course of two days we invite participants and speakers to bring together their
ideas on </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">how
contemporary gendered and sexual cultures are produced by local, inter- and
trans-national contexts of consumption and production. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><FONT
size=3><FONT color=#000000>The relationship between globalisation,
transnationalism, queer theory-politics, and feminist theory-politics, has
already been critically established, though often in ways whereby a concern with
either queer or feminist perspectives precludes one from the other. This
workshop will continue in the vein of transnational study, with a focus on the
concrete ways in which glocalised gendered and sexual effects are
produced.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#000000><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Our
international participants, </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">including Dr.
Ulrika Dahl (Södertörn University, Sweden), who will run a workshop on feminist
methodologies, representation, and research within your own community, and Prof.
Chengzhou He (Nanjing University, China) who will give a plenary on feminism and
the Chinese context, will set up the depth and breadth of research on gender,
sex, sexuality in the glocal. Prof. Elspeth Probyn (University of South
Australia) will also be offering her thoughts in the closing
plenary.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><FONT
size=3><FONT color=#000000>Members of the Gender and Cultural Studies department
will be presenting a number of papers and we will be joined by speakers from
other areas of Australia and beyond. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><FONT
color=#000000 size=3>If you are interested in participating and wound like to
find out more, please contact Sarah at </FONT><A
href="mailto:glocalising.sex@usyd.edu.au"><FONT
size=3>glocalising.sex@usyd.edu.au</FONT></A><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000>
at your earliest possible convenience.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><FONT
size=3><FONT color=#000000>We currently have 4 grants which are to be awarded to
<U>students</U> wishing to attend the workshop, but who usually reside outside
of the Sydney urban area. We would ask you to please encourage any students who
wish to attend to put in an application (500 words, bio & explanation of
interests & benefits of attendance) for a grant.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><FONT
color=#000000 size=3>Please email </FONT><A
href="mailto:glocalising.sex@usyd.edu.au"><FONT
size=3>glocalising.sex@usyd.edu.au</FONT></A><FONT color=#000000 size=3> by
<U>February 13<SUP>th</SUP> 2009</U> at the latest. Please note this is short
notice, so do not hesitate to get in touch and find out more.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Sarah Cefai<BR>Department of Gender and Cultural
Studies<BR>School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)<BR>Room H3.04
Level 3<BR>Main Quadrangle A14<BR>University of Sydney, NSW
2006<BR>Australia</FONT></P>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=1>Dr Greg Noble</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=1>Associate Professor</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=1>Centre for Cultural
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9635</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=1></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=1>Co-author of <EM>Bin Laden in the
Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other</EM> (Sydney Institute of Criminology,
2004)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=1>"People who include bon mots in their email
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