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<div><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><b><i>Presented by the Research Unit in Public Cultures and School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne
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</span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="5"><span style="font-size:20pt;"><b>Transnational Sexualities and Genders Symposium</b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="5"><span style="font-size:20pt;"><b><br>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>12noon to 4.15pm. South Lecture Theatre, Old Arts</b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b><br>
The University of Melbourne</b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b><br>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>Invited Speakers: Katherine Sender</b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> (University of Auckland)</span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><i>
 Sex Museums across Cultures: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationhood</i></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> |
</span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>Peter Jackson</b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> (Australian National University)</span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><i>Markets, Media and Activism in the Making and Remaking of Queer Bangkok</i></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">
 | </span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>Mark McLelland</b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> (University of Wollongong)
</span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><i>Regulation of Manga Content in Japan: Is there a future for Boys Love (BL) comics?</i></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">
 | </span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>Fran Martin</b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> (The University of Melbourne)
</span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><i>The gender of “portable personhood”: Chinese women students in Melbourne and transnational self-making</i></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">
 | </span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>Vera Mackie</b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> (University of Wollongong)
</span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><i>Queer families and the straight state: The legal regulation of family forms in contemporary Japan</i></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><i><br>
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</i></b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Organised by Associate Professor Audrey Yue (</span></font><a href="https://owa.unimelb.edu.au/OWA/UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">aisy@unimelb.edu.au</span></font></a><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">)
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</span></font><font color="red" face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>RSVP: Lucy Rash
</b></span></font><font color="red" face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b><u>(</u></b></span></font><a href="https://owa.unimelb.edu.au/OWA/UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank"><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>lucy.rash@unimelb.edu.au</b></span></font></a><font color="red" face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>)
 on or before Monday 29 April. </b></span></font></div>
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<p>Dr. Rosemary Overell</p>
<p>Co-ordinator Rock to Rave</p>
<p>School of Culture and Communication</p>
<p>The University of Melbourne</p>
<p>Parkville&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; VIC&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3010</p>
<p><a href="mailto:overellr@unimelb.edu.au">overellr@unimelb.edu.au</a></p>
<p><a href="http://unimelb.academia.edu/RosemaryOverell">http://unimelb.academia.edu/RosemaryOverell</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au/about/students/profiles/rosemary_overell">http://www.asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au/about/students/profiles/rosemary_overell</a></p>
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