| University of Leeds, 4th November 2006 |
Anarchism offers a tremendous body of knowledge and practice challenging the legitimacy of coercion, domination and rigid social hierarchies. Sexuality is a realm of social life all too frequently characterised by (or produced through) hierarchy. Both in theoretical writing and other forms of social action, anarchist traditions are rarely acknowledged for their potential in addressing issues of sexuality. Likewise, in much of the anarchist tradition, sexuality has been and continues to be all too frequently marginalised. But exciting things happen in the margins!
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| MORNING SESSION | ||
| 10.30-11.00 | Reception and Welcome | |
| 11.00-13.00 | Parallel Sessions | |
| Panel 1: Power troubles | ||
| Gay Men + Nazism = Anarchism? The Politics of Sadomasochism
Danny Beusch and Natalie Pitimson, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick | ||
| Troubling subjects, troubling theory: Towards an anarchist poststructuralist understanding of children’s sexuality, paedophilia and power
Robert Teixeira, Dept of Sociology, York University (Toronto); Anarchist Free University; Sex Laws Committee | ||
| Panel 2: Bodies, desires & emotions in anarchist politics | ||
| Sexuality in the Czech anarchist movement
Marta Kolarova, Charles University, Prague | ||
| Lessons from A(e)ffective Insurgency
Stevphen Shukaitis, University of Leicester Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy; Autonomedia | ||
| The contrasexual manifesto - or the “ironic construction” of dildocracy as a tool for anarchist politics?
Lena Eckert, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at Leeds University | ||
| 13.00-14.30 | Lunch (vegetarian, including vegan options) | |
AFTERNOON SESSION | ||
| 14.30-16.00 | Parallel Sessions | |
| Panel 3: Queer autonomous zones | ||
| Queer becomings: making autonomous queer spaces
Gavin Brown, King’s College London | ||
| Queering Heterotopia: temporary autonomous spaces and anarcho-queer activism
Serena Bassi and Mike Upton, Queer Mutiny Bristol | ||
| Panel 4: Turn-of-the-century anarchist sexualities | ||
| Influential Antecedents: Sexual Dissidence in the First Wave Anarchist Movement, and its Subsequent Narratives
Jenny Alexander, Department of Media and Film at the University of Sussex | ||
| Dynamiters and Degenerates: Homosexuals and Anarchists at the Fin de Siècle.
Judy Greenway, Cultural Studies at the University of East London | ||
| 16.00-16.30 | Break with snacks | |
| 16.30-18.00 | Parallel Sessions | |
| Discussion | ||
| Sex Education and Anarchist Ethics
Jamie Heckert, Edinburgh | ||
| Panel 5: Stories of Love & Violence | ||
| Love and Revolution in Le Guin's Four Ways to Forgiveness
Laurence Davis, Dublin | ||
| Violent Familial Sex: Imagining Safer Communities in Selected Canadian Novels
Donna McCormack, School of English, University of Leeds | ||
| 18:00-19:00 | Closing | |
| Evening | Dinner and entertainment | |
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For folk staying in Leeds, there will be an informal discussion about sexuality & anarchism in research, teaching, organising, and everyday life, over Sunday brunch at the Common Place Social Centre | ||
Sponsored by the Specialist Group for the Study of Anarchism, Political Studies Association