The Queer
Turn
Destabilizing trends and practices relating to gender and
sexuality in culture and research
An interdisciplinary
research group at the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research,
University of Oslo
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| New forms of
intimacy An international conference on intimacies and sexualities at the changing interfaces between private and public University of Oslo, Norway Niels Henrik Abel's building, seminar room on floor 12 12-13 October 2006 |
| Programme Thursday 12 October |
| 10.00 Registration
and coffee 10.15 Word of welcome Jørgen Lorentzen and Wencke Mühleisen |
| Neoliberal
transformations of intimacy 10.30 On Aspiring to be Normal: Neoliberal Affect in Rosetta and La Promesse Lauren Berlant 11.45 Refreshments 12.00 No Sex, No Crime, No Shame. Privatized Care and the Seduction into Responsibility Antke Engel |
| 13.15 Lunch |
| Gendered
intimacies 14.15 '365 times in 3 weeks': The unbearable lightness of online love Stephen Whitehead 15.30 Refreshments 14.45 Making places of intimacy - ethnicity, friendship and masculinities in Oslo Thomas Michael Walle Love and intimacy in men's lives Jørgen Lorentzen |
| 17.00 End of day's
sessions 19.00 Dinner |
| Friday 13 October |
| Processes of sexualization of public spaces in
Norway 10.00 The policing of intimacy? Rethinking the boundaries between public and private Jorun Solheim Sexualization: anti-feminism or potentials for a new generation of cultural feminism? Wencke Mühleisen |
| 11.30 Refreshments |
| Transformations of conjugality and friendship 12.00 Queer Individualization: Practices of Sociability, Sexuality and Self in the Early 21st Century Sasha Roseneil 13.15 Lunch 14.15 The importance of intimacy for the destabilization of conjugality and friendship Arnfinn J. Andersen Between labour and love: the re-erotizing of Homemaking in Egalitarian Couples Helene Aarseth |
| 15.30 Refreshments |
| Intimacies and sexualities at the changing interfaces between private
and public 15.45 Panel debate Lauren Berlant, Antke Engel, Jørgen Lorentzen, Wencke Mühleisen, Sasha Roseneil, Jorun Solheim, Stephen Whitehead … and all participants |
| 17.00 End of conference |