Sexuality Research Initiative/Development Research Seminar Series
Spring/Summer 2013
WHY SEX COUNTS?
21 January: Shuchi Karim, Institute of Social Studies (ISS): ‘Whose Sexuality Counts:
Single Heterosexual Women Negotiating Heteronormativity in Bangladesh’
4 February: Delwar Hussein, University of Cambridge: ‘The Sexual Lives of
Borderlanders: Hijras on the Bangladesh-India Border’
18 February: Huong Nguyen (ISS Visiting Scholar) and Roy Huijsmans (ISS): ‘Debate on
Migration, Youth and Sexualities’
4 March: Saskia Wieringa (UVA), Gé Meulmeester (ATRIA) and Gemma Andriessen
(HIVOS): ‘Panel Debate on Feminisms, Gender and Sexualities’
18 March: Ramzy Qumsieh (Palestine Link): 'Sexuality Discourse and Queer Organizing
in the Political Context of Palestine’
8 April: Stefan Dudink (Raboud University): ‘Sex and the Nation Again: Homosexuality
in Dutch Debates on Multiculturalism and Islam’
22 April: Susan Paulson (Miami University Dolibois European Center, Luxembourg
and Lund University, Sweden): ‘Virility, Potency and Changing Political Economies in
Latin America’
6 May: Paul Boyce (University of Sussex): ‘The State of Sexuality: Modernity, Law and
Same-Sex Sexualities in Nepal’
21 May: Kate Bedford (University of Kent): ‘Heteronormativity, Harmony Ideology, and
Development’
3 June: Sylvia Marcos (Center for Psycho-ethnological Research in Cuernavaca,
Mexico): ‘Indigenous Cosmologies on Sexualities’
10 June: Kristen Cheney and Auma Okwany (ISS): ‘Neocolonialism and Homophobia in
Uganda. A Dialogue’
Contact: Wendy Harcourt: Harcourt@iss.nl and Silke Heumann: Heumann@iss.nl for
more information.