FYI : CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on the history of sexuality, Ghent, 13-16.4.2009 [deadline: 1.5.]

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on the history of sexuality, Ghent,
13-16.4.2009 [deadline: 1.5.]

The Sexuality Network of the European Social Science History Conference
invites papers on the history of sexuality for inclusion in its
programme of panels at this bi-annual conference. The ESSHC 2010 will
take place in Ghent, Belgium at the Bijloke site in central Ghent, from
Tuesday 13 April up to and including Friday 16 April 2010.

The Sexuality Network of the ESSHC is seeking to become the leading
European arena for new work on the history of sexuality. We welcome
proposals for full panels (3-4 papers) as well as offers of individual
papers. Papers and panels on all historical periods are welcome.

We are particularly interested in encouraging proposals on histories of
sexualities and nationality, ethnicity, post-colonialism, or
globalisation. Papers and panels exploring sexualities beyond the "West"
however construed are especially encouraged. Papers on methodological or
historiographical questions in the history of sexualities, are also
strongly encouraged. We want to receive more proposals on sexualities
before the modern era too.

Our criteria for inclusion in the programme will be to highlight those
panels and papers that display innovation, theoretical rigour, and
exciting directions in research into the history of sexuality.

The range of interests covered by the Network are wide and previous
gatherings have included work on historical approaches to: sexual
activity; sexual identities; heterosexuality; homosexuality; marriage,
divorce, extra-marital sex; celibacy, masturbation; fertility and its
technologies; sexual subcultures; geographies of sexuality; rural
sexualities; prostitution; sexually transmitted disease; HIV/AIDS and
sexuality in historical perspective; cultural representations of
sexuality; medicalization of sexualities; sex education; moral reform
movements; legal regulation of sexuality; sexual violence;
globalization and sexuality; historiographical approaches to sexuality;
Marxist, queer and feminist historiographies.

All proposers of papers (and all panel participants) must pre-register
at the conference website in order for their offers to be considered:

http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/

Information about the conference fees and conditions are also available
at this site.

The deadline for paper and panel proposals is 1 May 2009. You (and all
panel participants if applicable) must also pre-register by this date.

Contacts for further information about the Sexuality Network:

Geertje Mak
Geert...@xs4all.nl

Elise Chenier
eche...@gmail.com

Dan Healey
D.he...@swansea.ac.uk