<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 31px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" style="font: 21.0px Times New Roman"><b><i>Figuring the Child:</i></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 31px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" style="font: 21.0px Times New Roman"><b><i>Sex, Sexism, Sexuality and Sexualisation</i></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 31px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">A Forum hosted by the Somatechnics Research Centre,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 31px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Macquarie University</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 31px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">18th November 2010</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 31px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">9 am - 5.30 pm</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 31px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">@</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><b>Sydney Mechanics School of Arts</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><b>280 Pitt St, Sydney</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Googlemaps: <a href="http://bit.ly/bgAfBP"><font color="#0022ed" style="color: #0022ed">http://bit.ly/bgAfBP</font></a></font></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 24.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">The figure of the child remains a vexed and specifically invested site in contemporary culture, politics, law, education and other institutions, especially in relation to ideas of sex, gender and sexuality. Recently in Australia, discussions about indigenous communities, about the internet filter, about eating habits, about appropriate media consumption, about exercise, about ‘proper’ boys’ and girls’ behaviours, and about ‘art’ have focussed on children and childhood, often without critical consideration, because the imag(in)ing of the child is so intensely and emotionally invested. ‘The child’ has thus become a regular point of reference for both sides of politics, often deployed to conservative ends. This forum brings together speakers from a range of different backgrounds, to discuss the role that specific knowledges about the figure of the child, particularly about ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ forms of gender and sexuality in childhood and adolescence, have played in contemporary developments in law, policy, education and concepts of family.</font></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 24.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Our participants, whose presentation abstracts can be found below, are: Dr Stephen Angelides, Dr Barbara Baird, Dr. Anna Hickey-Moody, Ms Sophie Martin, Dr Dinesh Wadiwel and Dr. Dierdre Tedmanson, Ms. Rachael Wallbanks and Mr. Patrick Quinn.</font></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 24.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Attendance at this event is free. Lunch will be provided. However, due to space limitations, we do require RSVPs. Please RSVP to our Administrator Vanessa Fredericks via email <a href="mailto:SomatechnicsAdmin@gmail.com"><font color="#0022ed" style="color: #0022ed">SomatechnicsAdmin@gmail.com</font></a> by the 15</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Times New Roman"><sup>th</sup></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> November 2010. For more information, please contact the organiser, Dr. Jessica Cadwallader via email: <a href="mailto:jess.cadwallader@gmail.com"><font color="#0022ed" style="color: #0022ed">jess.cadwallader@gmail.com</font></a>.</font></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 24.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">The Sydney Mechanics School of Arts is an accessible building with universal access facilities. Please let us know in advance if there are specific accessibility requirements, and we will do our best to fulfil them.</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "></span></div></body></html>