Centre for Material Digital Culture

Media Technology and Sexuality: A Symposium June 2007

15th June 2007 - 10.30am - 7.00pm
Medical School Building Room MS3.07A - followed by a drinks reception and launch for the book 'Queer Online'

Hosted by the Centre for Research into Material Digital Culture, Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex

10.00am coffee and registration

10.30am - 1.00pm Panel one: Chaired by Caroline Bassett

Queer theories and cybersubjects: intersecting figures
Kate O'Riordan, Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex

Belonging through violence: *Flaming,* erase and performativity in queer migrant community
Adi Kuntsman, Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster

Life outside the latex, HIV, Sex and the Online Barebacking Community
Sharif Mowlabocus, Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex

1.00pm-2.00pm lunch

2.00pm-4.30pm Panel two: Chaired by Sally Munt

The techno-politics of everyday life: Queerying sexual and gender identities
Irmi Karl, Department of Computing Mathematical & Information Sciences, University of Brighton

Computer Cross-Dressing: Queering the Virtual Subject
Debra Ferreday, Institute for Cultural Research, University of Lancaster

No Fauxxx - New Queer Altporn
Feona Attwood, Department of Sheffield Hallam University

17.00-19.00 Reception and book launch - Queer Online, Peter Lang, 2007