Sexualities and Science in Eastern Europe

Conference venue:  Victoria University, Wellington (New Zealand)
Period:  Mar. 26-27, 2011
Application Deadline:  Feb. 10, 2011 

How did authors use (psuedo-) scientific ideas to understand human sexuality, or the role of sexuality in society? How did (psuedo-) scientific ideas in turn affect sexual behavior and experiences? This conference poses these questions with a special emphasis on Eastern Europe (including Russia), the region which produced such "seminal" figures as Sigmund Freud, Károly Mária Kertbeny, Aleksandra Kollontai, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Leopold Sacher-Masoch.
Confirmed speakers include Aleksandr Etkind (King's College, Cambridge, UK) and Shannon Woodcock (La Trobe, Melbourne, Australia).

Topics of possible interest include, but are not limited to:

The call is open to scholars working in literature, sociology, history, anthropology, psychology, and cultural studies.
 
Proceedings will be published either as a themed issue of a journal or in an edited volume. The deadline for final papers will fall after the conference, but contributors are invited to submit original work of publishable quality.

Alexander Maxwell
E-mail: alexander.maxwell@vuw.ac.nz