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</FONT><FONT FACE="Palatino">Professor David Halperin, W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, University of Michigan, will be a keynote speaker at the forthcoming international conference of Asian queer studies, “Queer Asian Sites”, to be held 21-23 February 2007 at the University of Technology, Sydney, city campus. Prof. Halperin is a world authority on queer theory and is well known to many in Australia from his period teaching at the University of NSW in the 1990s. Prof. Halperin’s keynote address, “What Do Gay Men Want? Sex, Risk, and the Inner Life of Male Homosexuality”, will open the “Queer Asian Sites” conference at 6 pm on Wednesday 21 February 2007. <BR>
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(Prof. Halperin’s address will be a joint keynote speech in conjunction with the “Queer Space” conference, also at UTS.)<BR>
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“Queer Asian Sites” will showcase cutting-edge research on gay, lesbian and transgender communities across Asia. International keynote speakers include Dr Dédé Oetomo (founder of GAYa Nusantara, Indonesia), Dr Neil Garcia (University of the Philippines) and Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, Co-Secretary General of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA). Rosanna will speak on “Sri Lanka in Crisis: The Escalating War and Its Fallout on the Sri Lankan LGBTIQ Community”. The conference will end on Friday 23 February with a presentation by Taiwanese performance artist Shih-Hue Tu on butch, femme and “neutral” lesbian identities in modern Taipei. <BR>
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“Queer Asian Sites, An International Conference of Asian Queer Studies” is being convened by the AsiaPacifiQueer Network and Trans/forming Cultures at University of Technology, Sydney, in conjunction with the “Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries” conference at UTS on 20-21 February 2007.<BR>
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Full “Queer Asian Sites” conference details, including confirmed speakers and registration information, can be found on the conference website: <a href="http://apq.anu.edu.au/qas/">http://apq.anu.edu.au/qas/</a><BR>
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A full conference program will be available on this site in January 2007.<BR>
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“Queer Asian Sites” is being convened in partnership with the 2007 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (<a href="http://www.mardigras.org.au/).">http://www.mardigras.org.au/).</a><BR>
Special discounted registration rates are available for Mardi Gras members. (Early bird rates are available for all registrations received before 31 January 2007.)<BR>
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For more information please contact: apq@anu.edu.au</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR>
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