IASSCS Conferences

IASSCS was formed in July 1997 in Amsterdam, following a successful conference, ‘Beyond Boundaries: Sexuality across Cultures’, jointly hosted by the Universities of Amsterdam and Chicago. This gathering was broadly concerned with the social and cultural study of sexuality, and brought together scholars from the disciplines of anthropology, history, sociology, health policy and cultural and gender studies. At the time of the Amsterdam meeting, no organization existed which provided a forum for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies of sexuality. Since then, equally successful IASSCS conferences have been held in Manchester (1999), Melbourne (2001), Johannesburg (2003) and San Francisco (2005).

Through its conferences, seminars, meetings and publications, IASSCS tries in particular to promote good quality sexuality research in the countries of the South, both by stimulating young researchers and by building research capacity in specific universities or centres for research. As in previous years, selected papers from the Lima Conference will be published in the Association's journal Culture, Health and Sexuality   

Dis/organized Pleasures – Changing Bodies, Rights and Cultures,Lima, 2007, is the first of the Association’s conferences to be held in Latin America.

Lima Conference Topics

Topics to be addressed in the Lima Conference include (but are not limited to):

Bodies/Pleasure and Wellbeing

• Gender and identities: bodies in transformation
• The frailty of sexuality in HIV prevention policies today
• Masculinity and ‘male bodies’
• Women's bodies: Ubiquitous yet invisible
• Problematizing the connection between reproduction and sexual rights
• Reproduction: Changing technologies, changing possibilities
• Pleasure and Danger: Sexuality in a post-HAART world
• Disability, sexuality and rights

Sexual Rights and Mobilization

• Between Past and Future: New Realities for Sexual Rights Movements
• Men and sexual rights
• ‘Sex work’: Identities, mobilization and challenges
• Abortion and sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America
• Sexual Rights are Human Rights: From discourse to practice
• Local/Global: LGBTQI International Movements and Human Rights
• The Trans(gender) Movement in Latin America – and elsewhere
• Mobilizing for sexual pleasure
• Lesbian movements and their relationshipwith other movements

Sexual cultures

• “Sexual rights” in cross-cultural perspective
• Sexual Rights, Human Rights and Cultural Diversity
• Religion and the State: Impact on sexual policies
• Bodies and fitness: Cultural trends - and commercial successes
• Sexual diversity – evolving cultures in a globalized world
• Sexual cultures and sexual risk – from myth to sound public policy

Globalization, Poverty and Sexuality

• HIV – Overcoming Exclusion
• Programme-driven organizing of ‘marginalized groups’
• Sexuality and economic development
• Sexual tourism and trafficking
• Poverty, sexuality and reproductive rights
• Post-human sexuality
• Researching Sexuality: Methodological developments

Post-Conference Training in Sexuality   

A 2-week post-conference training workshop on sexuality (July 2- 13), mainly oriented to 20 participants from Latin America, will take place in collaboration with the Latin American Centre of Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM), the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC) and other institutional collaborators.The cost of the post-conference workshop is US$ 600 (Six hundred dollars) (For more information click here)

Contact person:

Griselda Pérez Luna Gallardo
griselda2007conference@iasscs.org
Phone 51 1 2411422

For information about:

INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS

Paper presentation format:

Participants who have oral presentations should send written material before May 15th 2007.

Include the title of the paper, author's name (indicating the main author), and the organization/institution they represent, as well as the following text: “Prepared for the VI IASSCS Conference: Dis/organized Pleasures: changing bodies, rights and cultures.”

We suggest that the written material contain 15 to 20 pages, using A4 page size, 1.5 line spacing and Arial 11 font size.

Written work should be sent by email as an attachment in Microsoft Word to: 2007conference2@iasscs.org

Please remember that the last day to send the papers is May 15th 2007.

 Poster presentation format:

Participants presenting posters at the Conference should observe the following format:

Participants should bring their posters to the Conference on the assigned exhibition day, and place them on the panels according to the code assigned. At the end of the day they should be removed by the participants.

In case it is not possible for you to attend the Conference but you still want to display a poster, it should be sent with somebody else coming to the conference and this person will be in charge of placing and removing it.

In the event that the participant cannot send the poster with someone else, the participant should send it to the conference at the address below:

Comité de Instalación de Posters
VI Conferencia IASSCS
Avda. Armendáriz 445. MirafloresLima 18Perú

Unfortunately given the number of posters display the conference cannot save them and return them to the authors once they are removed.

Awards:

The Organizing Committee wishes to remind participants who have an oral or poster presentation at the Conference that you can apply for one of the three awards available.

If you are interested please review information available in the Awards section.

Please do not forget to include in your presentation letter the award for which you are applying.

Trips and tourism in Peru

If you need any information regarding: reservations, tours, travel packages and trips in Peru, we recommend contacting one of the following travel agencies:

Peruvian Connection Travel Group
Rosana Chávez
conferencia@peruvianconnectiontg.com

Journey Travel Company
José Torres
jose@jtc.peru.com

www.jtc-peru.com (click on link for SPECIAL PACKAGES – IASSCS)

Important notice: Arriving to Lima

For your personal safety with regards to transportation from the airport to the city, we have contacted transportation company Taxi Green, whose booth is located in Jorge Chavez International Airport just at the exit of the international arrivals area. We recommend that you utilize the services offered by Taxi Green since the taxi services outside of the airport are disorganized and sometimes dangerous.Therefore, if you have not arranged a transfer service, we ask that you please follow this suggestion. At the Taxi Green booth, there will be a sign with the Conference logo, and the company will be aware of participant arrivals. The staff working at the booth is bilingual (Spanish-English) and it is possible to make a reservation via email if so desired.The rate from the Airport to Miraflores is S/.41.50 (approx. $13.20) cash and may be made in US Dollars or Euros.

Telephone: (51-1)484-4001 / (51-1)484-4475

Booking: taxigreen@hotmail.com

http://www.lap.com.pe/taxis.html