IASSCS Previous Conferences
Through its biennial international conferences and regional meetings, IASSCS promotes the development and exchange of good quality research on sexuality between countries of the South and North, both by stimulating young researchers to work in the field and by generating spaces for research exchange in collaboration with specific universities and research centres in different regions of the world.
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Contested Innocence – Sexual Agency in Public and Private Space
The VII Biennial Conference was organized in Hanoi from April 15 to April 18, 2009. The conference welcomed a worldwide audience of over 432 participants from 46 countries, which provided an interesting and diverse space for academic and activist exchange concerning the conference theme.
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Dis/organized Pleasures
The VI Biennial conference was organized in Lima from June 27 to June 29, 2007. The conference welcomed a worldwide audience of 305 from 42 countries, which offered an interesting and diverse space for academic and activist exchange about the conference theme.
The conference was hosted by the Unidad de Sexualidad y Desarrollo Humano (USSDH), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; and co-hosted by the Centro Latinoamericano de sexualidad y derechos humanos - Brazil (CLAM).
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Click here for selected abstracts published at the Culture, Health & Sexuality magazine
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Sexual Rights and Moral Panics
The V IASSCS Biennial Conference, held at the San Francisco State University, USA from June 21-24th, 2005 where academics, researchers and activists coming from more than 32 countries convened.
This conference provided a great space for networking amongst academics, and a positive environment to explore human sexuality and its interface with cultures.
Click here for selected abstracts published at the Culture, Health & Sexuality magazine.
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Sex and Secrecy
The IV IASSCS Conference was held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Organized around the theme of “Sex and Secrecy”, the conference generated presentations on a wide range of topics, from the politics of sexuality, sexuality and HIV/AIDS, histories of sexuality and prejudice, religion and sexuality, to gender-based violence.
This conference was hosted by the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa (GALA), and The Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg from 22-25 June 2003.
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Click here for the report on the Women’s Same-Sex Forum and the African Women Life History Project.
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Belief Systems and the Place of Desire
The Third IASSCS Conference was held in Melbourne, Australia on 1-3 October 2001. The conference was focused on key presentations and discussions, as well as plenary sessions at the start and end of each day, including presentations not limited to this topic and allowed free interpretation of the topic. Presentations encouraged participants to consider how religions and ideologies influence desire and dominant sexual structures, and how resistance and alternatives are worked through.
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Sexual Diversity and Human Rights
The Second Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sex, Culture and Society, “Sexual Diversity and Human Rights”, was held in Manchester on 21st-24th July 1999. The conference was hosted and organized in cooperation with the Department of Sociology of the Manchester Metropolitan University.
The Conference was also used to launch the Centre for Studies in Sexuality, Gender and Society within the Department of Sociology. This conference brought together the studies, ideas, and experiences of colleagues from variety of social and cultural settings, who developed and explored the connections between sexual diversity and human rights in a wide variety con contexts.
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Beyond Boundaries: Sexuality across Cultures
Scholars from anthropology, history, sociology, health policy and cultural and gender studies gathered at this conference in Amsterdam noted the relevance of constituting an association which would provide a much needed forum for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies of sexuality. This conference, jointly hosted by the Universities of Amsterdam and Chicago is considered the origin to the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society, since then biennial conferences take place in alternating regions in the world.
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