The Working Group on Sexuality, Normativity, and Ethics at the University
of Chicago's Center for Gender Studies invites submissions for a
conference, "Sex Norms, Sex Agents," to be held at the University of
Chicago on May 4-5, 2001. The conference will feature plenary addresses by
Joan Copjec (SUNY Buffalo), Michael Thompson (University of Pittsburgh),
and Michael Warner (Rutgers University).
The purpose of the conference is to bring together people from a variety of
disciplines who work on sexuality and normativity, and who find the topic
of agency--conceived both as a matter of political concern and as a subject
for conceptual analysis--particularly in need of rethinking in that
context. The intersection of sexuality and normativity has been studied a
great deal in recent years. In somewhat different ways, feminism, queer
theory, anthropology, and post-Foucault cultural studies have explored the
ways societies construct the norms that organize sexuality, norms that
often get taken for granted as natural. At its best, such work brings with
it a capacity to open new avenues of thought and desire. But many writers
working both inside and outside these traditions of thought have begun to
worry that analyses of the cultural construction of norms finally offer
limited resources for thinking about agency. At the University of Chicago's
Center for Gender Studies, the Faculty Working Group on Normativity,
Sexuality, and Ethics has been attempting to address this worry. We also
seek to ask broader questions about the potential for philosophical
accounts of agency and normativity to inform analyses of sexuality, about
the rich resources we continue to find in psychoanalysis, and about issues
raised by sociological, historical, and aesthetic approaches. Perhaps most
importantly, we seek to facilitate further conversations across often
fractious disciplinary boundaries. The "Sex Norms, Sex Agents" conference
is the latest and most public step in this attempt.
We welcome submissions from people working in and at the intersections of
philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, literary and cultural
studies, art history, anthropology, legal studies, and history. Submit 1-2
page abstracts of 20-minute papers to: The Working Group on Sexuality,
Normativity, and Ethics c/o Mark Miller Department of English The
University of Chicago 1050 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 or via
email: jmmiller@midway.uchicago.edu Submissions are due by February 1;
decisions will be announced by the end of February.
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