Heteronormativity - A fruitful concept?

Paper Sessions:

Parallel sessions A: Friday 13:00 - 14:30

Session 1 - Introductory lecture and discussion.

1. Clare Hemmings: "Bisexual Challenges to Western theories of Sexual Identity." Comments by Agnes Bolsø.

Session 2 - Euro-queer

1. Douglas Morrey: "Beyond Straight: The Post-sexual Fantasies of Michel Houellebecq and Maurice Dantec"
2. Lawrence R. Schehr: "Euro-homo-normativity"
3. Murray Pratt: "Erasmus and Euronormativity, or Lesbian Lessons in Love"

Session 3 - Worklife/school I

1. Jukka Lehtonen: "Heteronormativity in working life"
2. Lena Martinsson: "Normative strategies"
3. Mathias Ericson: "Inflaming Gender: Struggling for Respectable Heteronormativites in the Swedish Fireservice"

Session 4 - Health

1. Björn Pernrud: "Straight Out of the Manual"
2. Andrew Reilly & Nancy A. Rudd: "How Internalized Homophobia Influences Appearance Management Behavior"
3. Tone Hellesund: "Buried in heteronormativity. Parasuicides among homosexually identified adolescents"
4. Anbjørg Ohnstad: "Speaking vulnerable issues into existence - their consequences for psychotherapy"

Session 5 - Space/boundaries

1. Edgar Liu: "Unsettling heteronormativity: Neo-normative performances at Sydney's National Rugby League sites"
2. Gordon Waitt: “Boundaries of desire: becoming sexual through the spaces of Sydney's 2002 Gay Games”
3. Brita Jorde: "Queer Theory and Urbanism: queering in urban spaces"
4. Richard Ward & Sari Charpentier: "'Now you see it - now they don't': Heteronormativity across time and place"

Session 6 - Masculinity I

1. Iwona Rentflejsz: "Queer gaze and the queer descriptions of masculine bodies"
2. Marie Nordberg: "Styling real men to queer men - constructing the heterosexual and homosexual men in consumption and beauty business"
3. Ian Wellard: "Performing Sporting Masculinities: sexuality, body practices and gay identities"

Session 7 - Heteronormativity in the understanding and reception of art and literature I

1. Britt Andersen: "Knut Hamsuns romaner lest ut fra begrepet heteronormativitet"
2. Ann-Sofie Lönngren: "Playing with fire - the alternative of a non- heteronormative interpretation of the work of August Strindberg"
3. Anna Cavallin: "Positioning the normal - August Strindberg's Giftas and the borders of heteronormativity"

Parallel sessions B - Friday 15:00 - 17:00

Session 8 - Sexual practice I

1. Sik Ying Ho: "The (charmed) circle game - Reflections on heteronormality through multiple sexual relationships"
2. Pei Yuxin: "Polyamory - what it is and what it isn't for young women in Shanghai"
3. Sandra Manuel: "Everyone has a price"
4. Signe Arnfred: "Sex for fun and sex as serious business. Analysis and discussion of female initiation rituals in northern Mozambique"

Session 9 - Intersectionality, normativity, identity I

1. Ann Kroon: "Gender and sexuality in female-to-male transsexuality/gender studies"
2. Tor Folgerø: "Becoming an ordinary girl? Heteronormativity and transgression in transsexual life stories"
3. Michael Groneberg: "Forbidden fruit - A conceptual Analysis"

Session 10 - Heteronormativity, theoretical/analytical perspectives I

1. Ana Cristina Santos: "How queer can a straight be? Challenging heteronormativity from within"
2. Elin Havelin Rekdal: "Toril Moi and the concept of heteronormativity"
3. Katharina Landström: "Moving feminist technology studies away from heteronormativity"
4. Marianne C. Brantsæter: " 'Where did all the power go?' - heteronormativitets-fokuset på vei til å bli tilslørende og konserverende?"

Session 11 - Media and technology I

1. Wencke Mühleisen: "Medieseksualisering: Seksualiteten blir satt på (ny) plass"
2. Anne Lorentzen: "Heteronormativitet - et fruktbart begrep i populærmusikkfeltet?"
3. Bettina Fritzsche: "Negotiations of Heteronormativity in the Fan Culture of Girls
4. Mari Pajala: "Heteronormativity and national television. The Eurovision Song Contest in Finnish media"

Session 12 - Politics I

1. Kate Bedford: "Loving to Straighten Out Development Policy: Heteronormativity in the World Bank's Ecuadorian Gender Lending"
2. Marie Digoix & Patrick Festy: "The state and sexual order: the heterosexual model tested by the legal registration of same-sex couples"
3. Sue Scott and Stevi Jackson: "Heteronormativity and Non Monogamy"
4. Sigrun Saur Stiklestad: "no title"

Session 13 - Reproduction: norms, normality and standardization

1. Malin Noem Ravn: “DNA and identity: The challenge raised by identical twinning as a point of departure for a cultural analysis of understandings of genes”
2. Kristin Hestflått: "Egg Donation and the Question of Motherhood"
3. Merete Lie: "NRTs: 'There has to be a limit' versus processes of normalisation"
4. Stine Adrian: "Doing donor insemination in "the best way for the child" - An analysis of current ways of performing donor insemination in the region of Øresund"
5. Hilde Hauglid & Tove Ingebjørg Fjell: "Incomplete Women and Men? - a cultural study of childfree (voluntarily childless) couples"

Session 14 - Heteronormativity in the understanding and reception of art and literature II

1. Ingebjørg Seip
2. Maja Bissenbakker Frederiksen: "Det betyder ikke noget"
3. Lars Rune Waage: "Forestillinger om "homoseksualiteter" i norsk litteratur 1900-1920"

Parallel sessions C: Saturday 13:00 - 14:30

Session 15 - Sexual practice II

1. Wang Xiying: "Virginity loss and sex coercion in dating relationships in Beijing"
2. Ng Hoi Nga: "The Meaning of Sexual Intercourse for Women: Personal Accounts of Women who Experience Difficulty in Penetrative Sex"
3. Carmen Ka-Man NG: "Not becoming woman nor a 100% girl - How young women in Hong Kong negotiate their identities in the context of same-sex friendships"

Session 16 - Intersectionality, normativity, identity II

1. Christian Klesse: "Heteronormativity, Intersectionality and Female Bisexual Non-monogamies"
2. Janne Bromseth
3. Jenny Kangasvuo: "Renegade Women: Between bisexual and lesbian identities"

Session 17 - Heteronormativity, theoretical/analytical perspectives II

1. Annika Jonsson: "Cleaning out the Closet - Queer Theory, Realism and The Concept of Heteronormativity"
2. Norman Anderssen: "Heteronormativity and homonegativity: A contradiction in terms?"
3. Heidi Eng: "Are you queering? Or are you just queer?: The potential of subversive acts in sport"

Session 18 - Media and technology II

1. Wu Weihua: "In-game Marriage: Almost Heterosexual Love Stories in China"
2. Els Rommes: "Attractive Technologies? Where do teenagers' heteronormative choices come from?"
3. Susanna Paasonen: "Heteroporn: studying the obvious"

Session 19 - Politics II

1. Trine Annfelt: "Kvinner i familiepolitiske diskurser"
2. Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen og Anne Trine Larsen: "Home sweet home" -heteronormativitet som ideologi i Danmark 1970-2000
3. Bonnie C. Barr: "At lege far, mor og børn - Køn, seksualitet og slægtskab i det danske folketings debat om homoseksuelle, adoption og kunstig befrugtning"

Session 20 - Worklife/school II

1. Jenny Bengtsson: "Schooling Heteronormativity"
2. Anette Hellman: "Att bli pojke i förskolan"
3. Liv Mette Gulbrandsen: "Girls growing up in a multiethnic context: Heteronormativity as a developmental line?"

Session 21 - Masculinity II

1. Susan Clayton: "Taking the ban(n)s into their own hands. Queer reflections on two-and-a-half centuries of female husbands' masculinity"
2. Arne Nilsson: “Complexities Of Heteronormativity - Some Examples From Mid-20th Century Gothenburg”
3. Juha-Heikki Tihinen: "Some queer approaches to representations of masculinity"

Session 22 - Heteronormativity in the understanding and reception of art and literature III

1. Andrea Hynynen: "The Rejection of Heteronormativity in Marguerite Yourcenar's Fiction"
2. Silke Winst: "Amicus and Amelius: Medieval warrior friendship and masculine identity"
3. Robert Omar Khan: "Heteronormativity: Medieval and Modern, East and West"