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Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>Due to numerous requests, I have decided to make available the schedule of events for the Figuring the Child symposium, in addition to the abstracts. Please find the updated pdf attached! All welcome, and of course, please forward to any interested parties.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jess</div><div><br></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><b><i>Figuring the Child: <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><b><i>Sex, Sexism, Sexuality and Sexualisation<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%">A Forum hosted by the Somatechnics Research Centre, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%">Macquarie University<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%">18th November 2010<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%">9 am - 5.30 pm</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%">@<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b>Sydney Mechanics School of Arts<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b>280 Pitt St, Sydney<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%">Googlemaps: <a href="http://bit.ly/bgAfBP">http://bit.ly/bgAfBP</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%">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.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%">Our participants, whose presentation abstracts can be found below, are: Dr Barbara Baird, Dr Stephen Angelides, Dr Dinesh Wadiwel and Dr. Dierdre Tedmanson, Ms. Rachael Wallbank, Mr. Sean Swift, Dr. Anna Hickey-Moody and Ms Sophie Martin.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%">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">SomatechnicsAdmin@gmail.com</a> by the 15<sup>th</sup> November 2010. For more information, please contact the organiser, Dr. Jessica Cadwallader via email: <a href="mailto:jess.cadwallader@gmail.com">jess.cadwallader@gmail.com</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%">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.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%">There have been numerous requests for a schedule of events. Please find the abstracts within the schedule in the attached pdf.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "></span></p></div></body></html>