<html><div style='background-color:'><P>This conference will be at UCR in February, and it seems to be a good and easy opportunity for publication in conference proceedings and for cash prizes. Rumor has it that first prize will be several hundred dollars.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 26pt"><FONT face=Garamond>Sex Matters: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sexualities across the Disciplines<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><FONT face=Garamond>February 25, 2006<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">University</SPAN></B></st1:PlaceType><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Riverside</st1:City></st1:place></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><v:shape id=_x0000_s1030 style="MARGIN-TOP: 146.25pt; Z-INDEX: -1; MARGIN-LEFT: 5in; WIDTH: 180pt; POSITION: absolute; HEIGHT: 140.4pt; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical: absolute" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-54 0 -54 21531 21600 21531 21600 0 -54 0"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Garamond><v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\HP_ADM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image003.jpg" o:title="Antique Gems and greek medals, plate three from A DISCOURSE ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS, part one, Richard Payne Knight, 1786"></v:imagedata><w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap></FONT></FONT></v:shape><FONT size=3><FONT face=Garamond><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>This conference is a millennial appraisal of the functions of sexualities in a broad interdisciplinary program
that seeks to bring together perspectives from the science, humanities, social science and artistic communities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The blanket term “sexuality” is no longer sufficient to wholly encompass the diverse manners with which the term is being articulated in popular and academic spheres.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Through a series of posters, panels, and talks, this conference seeks to voice in part the plurality of discourses surrounding the different “sexualities” that we encounter in our researches.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Enjoy free food and drink, engaging presentations, adding to your cv, and the opportunity to schmooze with the greater graduate community. The best panel presentations will be published in the conference proceedings, and there will be significant cash awards for the best posters and
panels.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In addition to artistic submissions, we welcome interdisciplinary proposals for papers, posters, and panel discussions on, but not limited to the following topics:</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>chemical and hormonal sexualities</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>gender theory and desires</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>reading sexualities in literature</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>the private lives of plants</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>biomedical approaches to sexualities</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>post-Foucaultian sexualities</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>perversity</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>performance theory </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>transexualities</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>queer theory</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><v:shape id=_x0000_s1027 style="MARGIN-TOP: 2.25pt; Z-INDEX: -4; MARGIN-LEFT: 243pt; WIDTH: 297pt; POSITION: absolute; HEIGHT: 138pt; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical: absolute" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-44 0 -44 21506 21600 21506 21600 0 -44 0"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Garamond><v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\HP_ADM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image007.jpg" o:title="c"></v:imagedata><w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap></FONT></FONT></v:shape><FONT face=Garamond size=3>sexualities in philosophical discourse</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>animal husbandry & zoological sexualities</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 173.25pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>romancing the stoner: drugs and sexualities</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>sexualities before 1860</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>representations of sexual disease </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>the passions of proteins </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>classical sexualities</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>sexualities in the market economy</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 173.25pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>porn</FONT><v:shape id=_x0000_s1029 style="MARGIN-TOP: 11.25pt; Z-INDEX: -2; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; WIDTH: 124.5pt; POSITION: absolute; HEIGHT: 164.25pt; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-vertical-relative: text" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-130 0 -130 21501 21600 21501 21600 0 -130 0"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Garamond> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\HP_ADM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image009.jpg" o:title="vaseline" grayscale="t"></v:imagedata><w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap></FONT></FONT></v:shape><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"><FONT face=Garamond
size=3> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 173.25pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>insect sexualities</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 173.25pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>pederasty</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>cross-cultural sexualities</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>media studies and sexualities</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>non-Eurocentric sexualities</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>sex trafficking</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Garamond size=3>Individual proposals should be less than 250 words and sent in the text of an email (no attachments).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Specify whether your proposal is for a panel or poster presentation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please include your departmental affiliation and a one sentence summary of your research interests.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Proposals will be accepted on or before January 16, 2006 at the following email address: sexmatters@gmail.com </FONT></P>
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