Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich
Workshop Program
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Public Keynote Lecture (Venue: UZH Main Building: Rämistrasse 71, Room G 217)
18:15–20:00 Éric Fassin
Sexual Nationalisms Old and New in the Age of Terror
20:00 Drinks and Small Plates
Friday, June 16, 2017 (Venue: Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies Rämistrasse 59, Room E 08)
09:30
09:45 Registration and Coffee
Official Welcome:
Andreas Jucker, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Bettina Dennerlein, Professor of Gender Studies and Islamic Studies, Monika Gsell, Research Fellow and Coordinator MA Gender Studies
Panel 1: Entangled Histories of Science
Chair: Justyna Jaguscik
10:00–10:45 Dagmar Herzog
Where They Desire They Cannot Love: Critical Sexology in Germany between Marx and Freud and Masters and Johnson
10:45–11:30 Omnia El Shakri
The Arabic Freud and the Invention of the Psychosexual Subject
Coffee Break
Panel 2: Ethnographies of Sexuality
Chair Yasmine Berriane
11:45–12:30 Fuambai Ahmadu
The Making of Sexuality: Gender Inclusive Genital Surgery among the Mandinka of The Gambia
12:30–13:15 Aymon Kreil
In and Out of Morals: Fun Time and Norms of Desire in Egypt
13.30–14:30 Lunch
Panel 3: Queer Theory Revisited
Chair: N.N.
14:45–15:30 Christa Binswanger
A Third Sexual Revolution? Current Perspectives on Sexuality in Critical Sexualities Studies, Affect Studies, Queer Studies and Gender Studies
15:30–16:15 Monika Gsell
Psychoanalysis and the (Queer) Making of Sexuality
Coffee Break
Public Event (Venue: Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Rämistrasse 59, Room G 15)
17:00–19:00 Teresa de Lauretis: Freud and the Sexual
A Presentation by Teresa de Lauretis, Followed by a Conversation with Frauke Berndt
Saturday, June 17, 2017 (Venue: Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Rämistrasse 59, Room E 30)
Panel 4: The Politicization of Sexuality
Chair: Sarah Farag
9:30–10:15 Sherine Hafez
Gender and the Epistemology of Islamophobia in the 21st Century
10:15–11:00 Bettina Dennerlein
Sexuality in Contemporary Islamic Discourse: Negotiating the Religious-Secular Divide
Coffee Break
11:15–12:00 Saskia Wieringa
Sex, Lies and Communist Phobia in Indonesia
12:00–13:00 Closing Discussion
Lunch and Farewell