All papers presented at the conference, and published here, were subject to a process of blind peer review at both abstract and full paper stage.

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Day One
Day Two

Day One: Tuesday February 20, 2007

8:30 - 10.00AM

Registration, Level 3, Peter Johnson Building, 702-730 Harris St., Ultimo.

10.00 - 10.30AM

Conference opening and welcome, room 322

10.30 - 12.00PM

Sessions A and B run in parallel in rooms 322 and 321

Session A: Identities, room 322, Chair: Associate Professor Gordon Waitt

Ian Steep
'GWM ISO GAM': Mediated identities and ethnicity fetish'

Peter McNeil
'Crafting queer spaces: privacy and posturing'

Andrew Gorman-Murray
'Reconciling self: gay men and lesbians using domestic materiality for identity management'

Session B: Cities, room 321, Chair: Gary Wotherspoon

Sant Suwatcharapinun
'The Centre of Periphery: the Case of Contemporary Bangkok's Gay Spaces'

Liz McNeil
'Queer Space and the City: What Adelaide's Queer Community Said'

David Higgs
'Queer space in Seventeenth-Century Lisbon: Centres and Peripheries'

12.00 - 1.00PM

lunch, DAB cafe, level 4 Peter Johnson Building

1.00 - 2.30PM

Sessions C and D run in parallel in rooms 322 and

Session C: Beats / the Space of the Public Toilet, room 322, Chair: Dr Robert Payne

Kristen Davis
'Bondi's underbelly: the 'gay gang murders'

Cristyn Davies
'Queering the space of the Public Toilet'

Welby Ings
'lost in space: Changes in physical, legal and linguistic frameworks relating to the New Zealand public toilet'

Session D: The Rural, room 321, Chair: Elizabeth Humphrys

Yorick Smaal
'Queensland's emerging homosexual subculture and public space, 1890-1914'

Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, and Chris Gibson
'Chilling out in the country? Interrogating Daylesford as a 'gay / lesbian rural idyll''

Ed Green
'Conceptualising Place in the Lived Experience of Gay Men in Rural Communities'

2.30 - 3.00PM

Afternoon Tea, Peter Johnson Building level 3 foyer.
Short film screening: 'boy', director Welby Ings, 2004, 15 mins, room 322

3.00 - 4.30PM

Sessions E and F run in parallel in rooms 322 and 321

Session E: Intersections / Interstices, room 322, Chair: Dr Naomi Stead

Ika Willis
'Slash as Queer Utopia'

Julia Horncastle
'Cavity Filler: The Queer Interstice'

Scott Carey
'Queer Space as Installation'

Session F: Globalisation / Nationalism, room 321, Chair: Dr Andrew Gorman-Murray

Elizabeth Humphrys
''With their bodies on the line': activist space and sexuality in the Australian alter-globalisation movement'

Emma Garrett
'American Stories: Narratives of Family in Public Discourse'

Gary Carsley
'Any Queeries'

4.45 - 6.00PM

Keynote lecture, room 322, Chair: Dr Jason Prior

Prof. Robert Aldrich
'Between Places, Between Cultures'

6.00PM onwards

Informal drinks and conference dinner, 'Henry, Henry' bar and bistro, Henry Deane Plaza

Day Two: Wednesday February 21, 2007

9.45 – 10.00AM

Welcome and introduction to day two, room 322

10.00 – 11.00AM

Keynote lecture, room 322, Chair: Dr Naomi Stead

Prof Elspeth Probyn
'A choice of their own? youth, sex and intimacy'

11.00 – 11.30AM

Morning Tea, Peter Johnson Building level 3 foyer

11.30 – 1.00PM

Sessions G and H run in parallel in rooms 322 and 321

Session G: Architecture / Form, room 322, Chair: Dr Sandra Kaji-O'Grady

Michael Chapman
'Architecture and Hermaphroditism: gender ambiguity and the forbidden antecedents of architectural form'

Helene Frichot
'The Onanist's Escape From Architectural Captivity'

Chris Tucker, Michael Chapman and Michael Ostwald
'Homosexuality and the Star Hotel: Exploring the traces of Queer Space in Newcastle in the 1970s'

Session H: Festivals / Events / Performances, room 321, Chair: Dr Jason Prior

Jane Stoddart
'Queer Workshopping: Constructions of Self, Space and Perverse Toys'

Jem Masters
'We promised never to tell!! Confusions from the Medical Tent'

Peter Schmiedgen
'Homo-normativity, hetero-normativity and socio-spatial difference'

1.00 – 2.00PM

Lunch, DAB café

2.00 – 3.30PM

Sessions I and J run in parallel in rooms 322 and 321

Session I: Home / House, room 322, Chair: Tim Laurence

Kim D. Felsenthal
'Finding Identity in a Collective Transcape: A look inside Transy House'

Gordon Waitt and Andrew Gorman-Murray
'Provincial Paradoxes: 'at home' with older gay men in a provincial town of the Antipodes'

Session J: Online / Offline, room 321, Chair: Professor Peter McNeil

Vikki Fraser
'Gay Ghettos for the New Millennium: Oxford Street meets Mogenic.com and the question of queer space'

Joshua Helms
'Constructed Online Identities: Capturing Anonymity'

Robert Payne
'Gay scene, queer grid'

3.30 – 4.00PM

Afternoon Tea and Book Launch: Gordon Waitt and Kevin Markwell, Gay Tourism: Culture and Context, Haworth Press, New York, 2006.

4.00 – 5.30PM

Sessions K and L run in parallel in rooms 322 and 321

Session K: Veils / Camouflages, room 322, Chair: Dr Vicki Karaminas

Ibrahim Abraham
'The veil and the closet: Islam and the production of queer space'

Chris Brickell
'Parallel Worlds? Queered Spaces and the Art of Camouflage'

Sally Gray
'[You make me Feel] Mighty Real: David McDiarmid's art and the space within [the] House'

Session L: Ruins / Hauntings / Nostalgia, room 321, Chair: Associate Professor Welby Ings

Jason Prior
'Amongst the Ruins'

Brad Ruting
'Is the Golden Mile tarnishing? Urban and social change on Oxford Street, Sydney'

Karen Lambert
'Queer places as 'passings that haunt us''

6.00 – 7.30PM

Keynote lecture, Guthrie Theatre, Level 3 Peter Johnson Building, Chair: Dr Peter Jackson

Prof. David Halperin
'What Do Gay Men Want? Sex, Risk, and the Inner Life of Male Homosexuality'

7.30PM onwards

drinks, close of Queer Space conference, open of Queer Asian Sites conference