Report on the Second Lesbian and Gay Studies and Queer Theory Conference at TAU

The NCJW Women Studies Forum, TelAvivUniversity

The Forum for Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory

An Other Sex 07

The Seventh Israeli Annual Conference for Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory

TelAvivUniversity, May 28-30, 2007

Sunday, May 27

18:30-20:30

TrobovichBuilding, Kes Hamishpat Hall

A Sceening of Paper Dolls and a roundtable with the filmmakers Sponsored by the MinervaCenter for Human Rights

Monday, May 28

TrobovichBuilding, Kagan Hall (room 100)

16:00-17:30

Things I Wanted to Touch a Special Session in Celebration of Gili Pliskin's New Book

Chair: Amalia Ziv, The Literature Department and NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, TelAvivUniversity

What's Queer About Masturbation?

Tal Dekel, NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, TelAvivUniversity

Women's Auto-Eroticism as Reflected in the Visual Arts

Yasmin (Max) Sason, Department of Film and Television, TelAvivUniversity

Women Are Doing It (For Themselves) on the Screen

Gili Pliskin, author of the book Things I Wanted to Touch

18:00-20:00

Plenary session

Chair: Aeyal Gross, Buchmann Faculty of Law, TelAvivUniversity

Greetings:

Orly Lubin, Head of the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, TelAvivUniversity

Keynote Lecture

Prof. Judith Halberstam Director of the Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern California

Comparative Transgenderism

Discussant: Amalia Ziv, The Literature Department and NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, TelAvivUniversity

Tuesday, May 28

TrobovichBuilding, Kagan Hall (room 100)

10:00-11:30

First Session: Parents, Teachers and the Elderly

Chair: Sigal Gooldin, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa

Amiran Waldmann, clinical social worker, MentalHealthCenter, Rishon-lezion

The Experience of Aging for Elderly Gay Men: The Movement between the Internal and External Worlds

Hagit Ashur-Efron, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The School of Education, Department of Sociology of Education

Invisible Teachers: Gay and Lesbian Teachers in Israeli High-Schools

David Michaeli

Gay Parenthood Narratives, Fantasies and Denials

11:45-13:15

Second Session: In the First Person

Chair: Roni Halpern, NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, TelAvivUniversity

Efrat Rotem, Department of Literature, TelAvivUniversity

White Undershirt: the Butch Body and the Other

Adi Ronen, The Center for Financial and Money Market Studies

Ilana Berger, The Center for Human Sexuality and Gender Identity

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Fairest of Us All?:" How Does the Personal Experience of a Transgender Adolescent Correspond to Queer Theory?

Yael Mishali, The Shirley and LesliePorterSchool of Cultural Studies, TelAvivUniversity

It Will All Blow Over by Your Wedding Day: Mizrachiyut from a Lesbian Perspective

14:30-16:00

Third Session: EnGendering

Chair: Amalia Ziv, The Literature Department and NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, TelAvivUniversity

Nora Grinberg, transsexual and transgender rights activist

Notes for the Metaphysics of the Israeli ID card

Effi Ziv, The Shirley and LesliePorterSchool of Cultural Studies, TelAvivUniversity

From Shame to Transgender: A Narrative of Gendered Development

Orit Bershtling,Gender Studies Program, BarIlanUniversity

“Speech Creates a Kind of A Commitment”: Transgenderism in Hebrew

16:15-17:45

Round Table: Bodies That Rebel Against Gender Boundaries

Chair: Rauda Morcos, Aswat – Palestinian Gay Women

Participants:

Ghada, Intersex Support Group

Samira,Aswat – Palestinian Gay Women

Eli Eliahu, The Ahoti Movement for Women in Israel

Dorit Abramovitch, School of Art, Society and Culture, SapirCollege

18:15-19:45

Round Table: Forty Years of Occupation, and Not a Minute Longer: On Pride and Occupation

Chair: Aeyal Gross, Buchmann Faculty of Law, TelAvivUniversity

Participants:

Tal Arbel, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, TelAvivUniversity

Roy Wagner, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, TelAvivUniversity

Yuval Yonay, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa

Yael Berda, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-AvivUniversity

Haneen Maikey, General Coordinator, The Palestinian LGBTQ Community Project,

Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance

Wednesday, May 30

TrobovichBuilding, Kes Hamishpat Hall

10:00-11:30

Sixth Session: Psychoanalytic Readings

Chair: Orly Lubin, Head of the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, TelAvivUniversity

Idit Alphandary, The Literature Department and the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program, TelAvivUniversity

Beauty and the Beautiful Girlfriend and Where is the Beast? David Lynch, Jean Cocteau, and Psychoanalysis

Tal Levin, The Philosophy Department, Tel-AvivUniversity

Her-Ethics: Love-Mother-Lesbian

Sivan Shtang, Hermeneutics Studies Program, Bar-IlanUniversity

The Transgendered Subject of Fantasy: The Body Beautiful by Ngozi Onwurah

11:45-13:15

Seventh Session: Silver Screening

Chair: Yasmin (max) Sason, Department of Film and Television, TelAvivUniversity

Sandra Meiri, The Open University of Israel

"Little Closet on the Prairie": Calamity Jane and the Wild West

Itay Harlap, Department of Film and Television, TelAvivUniversity, and The Division for Cinema and Television Arts, SapirAcademicCollege

Israel Needs Therapy: Yadin’s Character in the Television SeriesBeTipul (In Therapy)

Raz Yosef, Department of Film and Television, TelAvivUniversity

"Dreaming Is Another Kind of Remembering": Trauma and Fantasy in Walk on Water

14:30-16:00

Eighth Session: Before the Law

Yaacov Ben-Shemesh, Faculty of Law, OnoAcademicCollege

Hedi Viterbo, Buchmann Faculty of Law, TelAvivUniversity

"Deviant Words": Homosexuality and Defamation

Hadar Aviram, Buchmann Faculty of Law, TelAvivUniversity

Who Cares If It's a Choice? Evaluating Determinism as a Platform for Same-Sex Couple Rights

Yehonatan Alsheh, The History School, Tel Aviv University, and the Political Science Department, The Open University of Israel

John Maynard Keynes and the Economy of the Closet

16:30-18:00

Round Table: Marriage Made in Canada

Sponsored by The Association for Public Law

Chair: Orna Ben-Naftali, The LawSchool, The College ofManagement, Academic Studies

Participants:

Aeyal Gross, Buchmann Faculty of Law, TelAvivUniversity

Zvi Triger, The LawSchool, The College of Management, Academic Studies

Ayelet Blecher-Prigat, Sha'arey MishpatCollege

Amit Kama, Communication Department, EmekJezsreelAcademicCollege

18:30-20:30

Round Table: The Drag Kings Perform an Other Sex

Chair: Yael Rozin, Gender Studies Program, BarIlanUniversity

The conference participants are invited to an after-conference party sponsored by The Feminist House.

Venue: Zamr Cinema (Alenby 34, Tel-Aviv)

When: 22:00

Suggested Admission: 30 NIS

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