UWP Lecturers "Medieval Sexuality: 2009" - UCLA Conference, March 6-7

[John Ganim]

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>Announcing a CMRS Ahmanson Conference
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>“Medieval Sexuality: 2009”
>Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7, 2009
>
>Considering that the history of sexuality as a 
>more or less coherent intellectual project is 
>only a few decades old, what we have learned 
>about medieval sexuality so far is remarkable. 
>Precisely because the investigations have only 
>just begun, however, whole areas have yet to be 
>explored. To further this exploration, this 
>conference will bring together scholars from 
>various disciplines and nationalities to take 
>stock of what is being done now and to 
>investigate new areas in the history of medieval 
>sexuality. Attention will be focused on two 
>primary issues: First­What is this thing we call 
>“medieval sexuality”? Does it have any medieval 
>coherence, or, despite what scholars claim to 
>have learned from Foucault, is it just modern 
>sexuality in medieval drag? Second­What can be 
>learned by studying points of exchange, the 
>movement of sexual knowledges or representations 
>across various boundaries? How does sexuality 
>figure in the relationship of medieval text and 
>image? What are the tensions and exchanges 
>between sacred and secular sexualities? And how 
>has the 19th-century science of sexuality 
>defined our ways of understanding medieval sexuality?
>
>This conference, organized by Professors Zrinka 
>Stahuljak (French & Francophone Studies, UCLA) 
>and James Schultz (Germanic Languages, UCLA) is 
>supported by a grant from the Ahmanson 
>Foundation, with additional funding from CMRS, 
>the UCLA Vice Chancellor for Research, the 
>Humanities Division of the UCLA College of 
>Letters and Science, the UCLA Center for the 
>Study of Women, the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual 
>& Transgender Studies Program, and the UCLA 
>Departments of Art History, Comparative 
>Literature, English, French & Francophone 
>Studies, Germanic Languages, and History.
>
>Place: UCLA Royce Hall 314
>Time: Download the complete program at 
><http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/medieval_sexuality_conference.pdf>http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/medieval_sexuality_conference.pdf. 
>(PDF 1.2 MB)
>Advance Registration: Not required; please sign 
>the attendance sheet at the door.
>Fee: None
>Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on 
>a first-come, first-served basis.
>Parking: Parking permits are $9 from any UCLA 
>Parking Services kiosk. Tell them you are here 
>to attend “the Medieval Sexuality Conference in 
>Royce Hall.” You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
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>for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (faculty 
>member, associate/affiliate, staff, or council), 
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><mailto:cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu>cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu.
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