RELIGION/SEXUALITY: POLITICS/AFFECT

Location: CafÈ Conference Room, Azafran.

1^st Floor, Space Telescope Building

Saturday September 19

Session One

10:00-10:30 Naveeda Khan: Riotous Images and the Proliferation of Sin: Another Look at the Danish Cartoon Controversy

10:30-11:00 Sumathi Ramaswamy: Nursing the nation into being: The visual ambivalence of the maternal breast in bourgeois India

11:00-11:15 Comments

11:15-12:15 Discussion

Lunch

12:30-1:45

Session Two

2:00-2:30 Ludger Viefhues-Bailey: Holiness Sex: Conservative Christian Sex Practices as Acts of Sanctification

2:30-3:00 Eric Fassin: Celibate Priests, Abstinent Homosexuals. What the Exclusion of Gay (and Gay-Friendly) Men from Priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church Does to Chastity.

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-3:45 Francois Sebbah: Levinas: God, the Father, and Sexual Difference

3:45-4:10 Comments

4:10-5:30 Discussion

7:00 Onward Dinner

Sunday September 20

Session One

11:00-11:30 Deepak Mehta: Self-Dissolution, Politics and the Work of Affect: The Life and Death of Sufi Baba

11:30-12:00 Bhrigupati Singh: Sensuality and Morality in Rural Central India

12:00-12:15 Comments

12:15-1:15 Discussion

Lunch

1:30-2:45

Session Two

3:00-3:30 Michael Moon: Sexual Sovereignty (What Can That Mean?):† Some Autoethnographic and Alloethnographic Perspectives

3:30-4:00 Veena Das: Religion, Sexuality and Sovereignty: The Case of Divine Marriage

4:00-4:15 Comments

4:15-5:15 Discussion

7:00 Onward Dinner