An Other Sex 12
Tel-Aviv University, May 20th 2012
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, May 21st 2012
Tel-Aviv University, May 22nd 2012
Sunday, 20 May
Tel-Aviv University
Trubowicz Building, J. Kagan Hall (100), Buchmann Faculty of Law
11:00-13:00- On the Limits of Categories: Myths and Constraints in the Formation of Identities
Chair:
Hannah Herzog
Speakers:
Gaia Steinberg
The Israeli Asexual Community
Asexuality: How to ask questions and not stop with sexual orientation
Rauda Morcos
Human Rights Activist and Law School, Carmel Academic Center, Haifa
The Margins of Nation, Gender and Law State Power
Eli Avidan Azar
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Conceptual Borders, Corporal Bounds: The Role of Dis/ability in Structuring Trans Identities
Shiri Eisner
Panorama - Bi and Pansexual Feminist Community
The Myth of Myth-Busting: a Critical Reading of Biphobic Myths
**Lunch Break**
14:00-15:00- Across the Lesbian Continuum: A Roundtable in Memory of Adrienne Rich
Chair:
Ruth Preser
Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University
Speakers:
Roni, Halpern
Head of the Gender Program, The Beit Berl Academic College, and the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, TAU
Yasmin Max Sasson
Department of Film, Minshar School of Art, and the School of Cultural Studies, TAU
Yael Mishali
The NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, Tel AvivUniversity
Su Schachter
Feminist and political activist
Navit Barel
Tel Aviv University
15:30-17:30- (Homo)Nationalism, Ethnicity, and "Pinkwashing"? A Roundtable Discussion
Chairperson:
Aeyal Gross
Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Speakers:
Dalit Baum
Regional Director, Middle East Program, American Friends Service Committee
Samira Saraya
Unaffiliated political activist
Adir Steiner
Municipality of Tel-Aviv
Yossi David
Department of Communication, and the Lafer Center for Gender Studies, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Ofri Ilany
Tel Aviv University, School of History
Shai Deutch
Chair of the Israeli National LGBT Taskforce
Lihi Rothchild
Activist in the group "the Boycott Within"
18:00-20:00- Opening Plenary Session
Chairperson:
Dr. Amalia Ziv, The Gender Studies Program, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Greetings:
Dr. Orly Lubin, on behlf of the Porter Institue of Poetics and Semiotics
Dr. Daphna Hacker,on behalf of the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, and the Forum for Women Studies with NCJW
Prof. Aeyal Gross, on behalf of the Forum for LGBT Studies and Queer Theory, TAU
Keynote:
Prof. David M. Halperin
W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
How to Be Gay:Male Homosexuality as a Cultural Practice
Monday, 21 May
Ben-Gurion University
Senate Hall, Bldg. 71A
10:15-11:45 Transgendered People and the Israeli Health System
Chairperson:
Iris Rachamimov
Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Speakers:
Yael Sinai
Tel-Aviv University
"Proud to live in an enlightened state, thank you very much","Sex change committee at Tel Hashomer Hospital" as an Admission ticket to the western world and it's hidden perceptions
Shir Reichert
Tel-Aviv Yaffo Academic College
"Prove my being trans" - Transgender person's experience with the health care system
Yonatan Marton
The Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University
A Transphobic Health Care System? Empirical Research of Transgender Persons in Israel
12:15-14:15Spaces of Activism and Pleasure in the Community
Chairperson:
Sara Helman
Department of Sociology and Anthropology,Ben Gurion University.
Speakers:
Gilly Hartal
The Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University
For safety - Shame mobilization in the Jerusalem Open House (JOH), an LGBT organization and community center in Jerusalem
Shai Gortler
Political Science department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
“Proving Manhood,Coming Out of the Closet, Expelling From the Mosque: On the Essentialist Politics of Beer Sheva’s First Pride Event”
Chen Misgav
Tel Aviv University, PEC LAB - Planning for the Environment with Communities, Department of Geography and Human Environment
Gender, Sexuality and Activism: The Spatial Politics of "Trans in the Center" Group
Gil Naveh
Theatre Arts Department, The Yolanda & David Katz Faculty of the Arts at Tel Aviv University
“That’s how it’s done: Drag as an Independent form of a Performing Art”
**Lunch Break**
The Joyce Goldman Auditorium, Bldg. M5
15:15-17:15-Queerstory: Exile, Nationalism, and Memory
Chairperson:
Merav Amir
The Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Speakers:
Romm Lewkowicz
University College London (UCL)
My Longing for the Muzhik- Gay Emancipation from the Standpoint of its Non-Liberal Victims
Hilla Lavie
Film Department, Tel Aviv University
Historical-activism in Germany - The dispute about thecommemorationof the Lesbian victims in Ravensbrueck women's concentration camp
Yuval Yonay
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa
The New Gay Jewish Men: The "Postmodern" Juggling of National and Sexual Identities in Mandatory Palestine and Early Statehood
Eyal Levinson
Doctoral Student at Bar Ilan University
Chained to the Flesh and Longing for the Spirit: A Queer Reading in Sefer Hasidim
17:45-19:15- Mothers and Others: Performativity, Fertility, and Resistance
Chairperson:
Niza Yanay
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology and Gender Studies, Ben-Gurion University
Speakers:
Merav Amir
The Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Hila Amit
Tel Aviv University
Free Radicals: choosing a non-birth life among Palestinian Lesbians in Israel
Lucian Laur
The School of Psychotherpy, TAU
Thoughts on Maternal Performativity
Tuesday, 22 May
Tel-Aviv University
School of Social Work, Hall 001
10:00-11:30- Intersex in Israel: Culture, Law, Community
Chairperson:
Sagit Mor
Faculty of Law, Haifa University
Speakers:
Susan Bassol
Faculty of Law, Haifa University
The Struggle of the Intersex Community in Israel
Sagit Mor
Faculty of Law, Haifa University
Toward a Critical Approach to Intersex and Law
Ma’ayan Sudai
Intersex and Legal Conceptualization
Or Shai
Faculty of Law, Haifa University
Intersex from a Comparative Cross-cultural Perspective
12:00-13:00- Gay and Lesbian Parenthoods
Chairperson:
Guy Shilo
The School of Social Work, TAU
Speakers:
Alon Oren and Adital Ben-Ari
The School of Social Work, Haifa University
The Construction of the Lesbian and Gay Family: a Dialectics of splits and combinations
Ariel Cohen-Arkin
Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Coupled Gay Men's Experience of Choosing the Parental Model
**Lunch Break**
14:30-16:00- Visually Queer
Chairperson:
Yasmin Max Sasson
Department of Film, Minshar School of Art, and the School of Cultural Studies, TAU
Speakers:
Amalia Ziv
The Gender Studies Program, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Playing at Soldiers: Performed Masculinity and Lesbian Cinematic Desire in Seeds of Summer
Shirly Bahar
Hebrew and Judaic studies Department, New York University
I Shot my Love, I love My State: representations of Homo/trans/nationalism in Tomer Heymann'sI shot My Love
Raz Yosef and Boaz Hagin
The Department of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University
Self-Exoticization and Contemporary Israeli Queer Cinema
16:30-18:00- Women Reading Women: Identity, Separation and Rage
Chairperson:
Orly Lubin, Chair, The Literature Department and Head of the Porter School of Poetics and Semiotics
Speakears:
Lital Pascar
The Cultural Studies Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Out of the Closet” or “Between the Lines”: Reading the Lesbian Romance.
Ruth Preser
Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University
A Methodology of Damage or How to Do Things with Separations
Yael Mishali
The NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, Tel AvivUniversity
Reclaiming Rage as a Political Practice in Marginal Spaces
18:30-20:30- Roundtable Discussion: The Ethics of Surrogacy in the LGBT Community
Chairperson:
Sigal Gooldin
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Speakers:
Aeyal Gross
Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Sharon Bassan
Tzvi Meitar Center for advanced studies, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Nuphar Lipkin
Isha L’Isha, Haifa Feminist Center
Thamar
Ex surrogate-mother
Naama
Surrogate-mother
Ellie Timan
Department of Behavioral Science, The Rupin Academic Center
Yossef(a) Mekyton
Friend of the Queer Institute of Gothenburg, Sweden
Yoav Arad-Pinkas
Father of twin daughters born through surrogacy in India
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