‘There is no politics without fantasy’: gender, sexuality and cultural studies in law
19 – 20 April 2006
KeeleUniversity
Conference Programme
Wednesday 19th April 2006
8.00 – 9.30BreakfastKeele Hall restaurant
10.00 – 10.55RegistrationGreat Hall (in Keele Hall)
11.00 – 12.30Panel session 1aFantasizing other bodies
Salvin Room
Emily GrabhamChair
Marie Fox‘Political Fictions: Sci-fi literature and the origins of the animal welfare movement’.
Margrit Shildrick‘Sexing the disabled body: some psycho-social considerations
Andrew Sharpe‘Fantasizing monsters’
11.00 – 12.30Panel session 1bFantasy in transition
Old Library
Esther HerzogChair
Oliver Philips‘Troubled narratives of sexuality and rights in post-colonial Southern Africa’
Loretta Ihme‘Victims and villains: discursive construction and legal regulation of trafficking in women’
12.30 – 1.25LunchGreat Hall (in Keele Hall)
1.30 – 3.00 Panel session 2aA fantastic answer to ‘the woman question’
Old Library
Oliver PhillipsChair
Mary Anne Case‘On not having the opportunity to introduce myself to John Kerry in the men’s room’
Elisabetta Bertolino‘A re-thinking of the CEDAW Convention through materiality’
1.30 – 3.00Panel session 2bPsychosocial approaches to crime and Salvin Room punishment
Marie FoxChair
David Gadd‘Violent racism and sexual fantasy’
Anna King‘The ties that bind: communal narratives in a sample of the punitive public’
Tony Jefferson‘Fantasy and phantasy in serial sexual murder: the case of Jeffrey Dahmer’
3.00 – 3.15Coffee & Tea breakGreat Hall (in Keele Hall)
3.15 – 4.45Panel session 3Fantasizing differently
Salvin Room
Elizabeth EmensChair
Anne Bottomley‘”Crossing boundaries”: gender, sexuality and law in the films of Claire Denis’
Adam Gearey‘The political fantasy: Walt Whitman and the law of amorous democracy’
Melanie Williams‘Narrative structures in legal principle – the boundaries of imagination’
4.45 – 5.00RefreshmentsGreat Hall (in Keele Hall)
5.00 – 6.30Panel session 4aFantasy and culture
Great Hall
Nicola BarkerChair
Rosemary Auchmuty‘The mystery of the missing role – masculinity and the Hardy Boys books
Emily Grabham‘Sex/Chorus’
Lieve Gies‘”It took a queen to make my wife a queen”: the (dis)empowerment of lawmakers in Wife Swap’
5.00 – 6.30Panel session 4bQueer Fantasies
Old Library
Ruth QuineyChair
Lynne Huffer‘Sex without difference: the queer fantasy of Lawrence v. Texas’
Leslie Moran‘What’s Batman got to do with it? Sexual orientation, diversity and the judiciary’
Stephen Tomsen‘Cultural essentialism in activism and legal discourse around homophobic violence’
6.30 – 8.00:In the Salvin Room....
Presenting Reina Lewis’ Keynote Cabaret!
'The Professor, the Lesbian, and the Wardrobe: on fantasies of dress, identity and politics.'
Michael ThomsonChair
8.15 – 9.30Dinner and Bar (until 12)Keele Hall Restaurant
Thursday 20th April 2006
8.00 –9.00BreakfastKeel Hall restaurant
9.00 – 9.15Registration Great Hall (in Keele Hall)
9.15 –10.45Panel session 5aFantasy and the political project
Salvin Room
Matthew WeaitChair
Olu Jensen‘Fantasy and life on the sexual margins’
Christian Klesse‘Vision and conflict: struggling about queer counterpublics’
Jack Jackson‘The constitution of fantasy’
9.15- 10.45Panel session 5bFantasizing appropriately
Old Library
Julie McCandlessChair
Roja Fazaeli‘Myths, paradoxes and lies: Iranian “women’s” sexuality’
Lizzie Seal‘Resisting the law? Public reaction to the case of Edith Chubb
Marie-Andree Jacob‘Kin, lies and technocrats’
10.45 – 11.00Coffee & Tea BreakGreat Hall (in Keele Hall)
11.00 – 12.00Plenary in the Salvin Room:
Vikki Bell
'Fantasies and futures: thinking political imagination'
Joanne ConaghanChair
12.15 – 1.30LunchKeele Hall Restaurant
1.30 – 3.00Panel session 6The Politics of Excess
Salvin Room
Les MoranChair
Carole McKenna‘The social construction of fear and the fantasy of good vs evil’
Ruth Quiney‘The domestic terrorist: masculinity and national anxiety in Fight Club and recent law’
Elizabeth Emens‘Bound: The imaginative surplus of contractual intent’