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CONFERENCE DATES: 22 - 25 JUNE 2003
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AIDS PLENARY SESSION
Carlos Caceres,
Cayetano Heredia University, Lima.
A medical doctor and social researcher in health, Carlos
Cáceres obtained his doctorate in public health at the University
of California, Berkeley. He is currently Professor
of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, where he conducts
research on sexualities, health and sexual rights; he also coordinates
the Master’s Course in Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health.
He is alsoan adjunct assistant professor at the University of California,
San Francisco,and of the HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Network for Latin America
and the Caribbean.
With the support of UNAIDS, in 1998 he promoted the
creation of the Research Network on Sexualities and HIV/AIDS in Latin
America and the Caribbean, and has also been involved in community initiatives
against AIDS and for sexual rights. He has been been a consultant on
health research and policy in national and international contexts, and
is the author of numerous publications.
Professor Elenor Preston-Whyte,
(download
CV - MS Word).
THEORISING SEXUALITY PLENARY SESSION
Elizabeth Povinelli,
Centre for Gender Studies, University of Chicago, SA.
Language, culture and power, sexuality and gender, indigenous and human
rights, colonial/postcolonial studies; Australia/Oceania, US. Co-Chair
of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project. Elizabeth Povinelli conducts
research in Australia with Aborigines on issues of property and human
rights, and in the United States on issues of sexuality and civil rights.
Her theoretical interests include language, culture and power, sexuality
and gender, and colonial/postcolonial studies. She is currently completing
a book examining how Aboriginal sexuality functions in discourses of
Australian nationalism and raising questions about how sexuality should
be studied in colonial and postcolonial contexts. She is on the editorial
board of Public Culture, and she and George Chauncey are coediting a
special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies on globalisation
and sexuality.
Jeffrey Weeks
Personal
Born 1 November 1945 in South Wales. Educated
locally and at University College London (1964-69).
Academic qualifications
BA (Hons) History, 1967; M.Phil, Political Theory, 1973; PhD, Sociology,
1983.
Current position
Professor of Sociology (since September 1994)
and Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Science (since August 1998),
London South Bank University.
Previous Positions
Research and teaching positions since 1970 at
London School of Economics (1970-77), and Universities of Essex (1978-9),
Kent (1980-83), Southampton (1983-5), and West of England (1990-94).
Assistant Registrar, Council for National Academic Awards, 1986-90.
Publications
Author of some 80 major articles on various aspects of
the history and social organisation of sexuality, identity, sexual politics
and HIV/AIDS; and author, co-author or editor of twenty books, including
Coming Out (Quartet, 1977/1989); Sex, Politics and Society (Longman,
1981/1990); Sexuality and its Discontents (Routledge, 1985); Sexuality
(Tavistock/ Routledge1986; 2nd revised edition, Routledge, 2003); Between
the Acts (Routledge 1990; Rivers Oram Press 1998); Against Nature (Rivers
Oram Press 1991); The Lesser Evil and the Greater Good (ed., Rivers
Oram Press, 1994); Invented Moralities (Polity Press, 1995); Sexual
Cultures (ed. with Janet Holland, Macmillan, 1996); Making Sexual History
(Polity Press, 2000); Lesbian and Gay Studies: An Introductory, Interdisciplinary
Approach (edited by Theo Sandfort, Judith Schuyf, Jan Willem Duyvendak,
and Jeffrey Weeks), (Sage, 2000) ; Same Sex Intimacies: Families of
Choice and other Life Choices (with Brian Heaphy and Catherine Donovan,
Routledge , 2001; Sexualities and Society: A Reader, Polity Press, 2003.
Current Research
Co-applicant, and joint leader of Intimacy research
strand, Familes and Social Capital ESRC Research Group, London South
Bank University.
SEX & SECRECY PLENARY SESSION
Achille Mbembe,
WISER, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dr Achille Mbembe, born in Cameroon, obtained his Ph.D
in History at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989 and a D.E.A. in Political
Science at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris). He was Assistant
Professor of History at Columbia University, New York, from 1988-1991,
a Senior Research Fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C.,
from 1991 to 1992, Associate Professor of History at the University
of Pennsylvania from 1992 to 1996, Executive Director of the Council
for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria)
in Dakar, Senegal, from 1996 to 2000, and was a visiting Professor at
the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. He has written extensively
in African history and politics, including La naissance du maquis dans
le Sud-Cameroun (Paris, Karthala, 1996). His latest work On the Postcolony
was published in Paris in 2000 in French and the English translation
has been published by the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001.
Gilbert
Herdt, Director and Professor, Human Sexuality Studies Program,
San Francisco State University (download
CV - MS Word).
Sanjay Srivastava,
Associate Professor, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin
University, Melbourne, Australia.
Sanjay Srivastava is a social anthropologist with extensive
background in fieldwork, research and publication on the processes of
nationalism, modernity, masculinity and sexuality in South Asia. His
early work 'Constructing Post-colonial India' (Routledge 1998) explored
ideas of middle-class masculinity in India through focusing on a famous
boys' boarding school in North India. He has recently completed a research
project on masculinity, sexuality and urban culture in India. The research
seeks to understand local notions of masculinity, sexuality and the
body, and focus on those 'illegal' sites of therapy, remedy, and dialogue
that make for an alternative non-Western modernity. This work also hopes
to contribute towards the formulation of more effective anti-AIDS strategies.
He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled 'The Gender
of the City: Masculinities, Sexualities and Urban Culture in India'.
Srivastava is also contributing editor of a forthcoming volume entitled
'Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities, and Culture
in South Asia' to be published by Sage in 2003.
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