Gay and Lesbian Issues meetings & conferences

1st International Conference on LGBT Psychology and Related Fields – Coming Out for LGBT Psychology in the Current International Scenario

June 20th to 22nd 2013 Lisbon, Portugal

The1st International Conference on LGBT Psychology and related fields – Coming out for LGBT Psychology in the current international scenario will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 20th to 22nd 2013. This Conference will be a unique opportunity to create a forum for students, researchers and scholars interested in different areas of LGBT research to discuss current topics, so to bridge the gap between LGBT research and the community realities in which LGBT people live in.

The main objective of this Conference is to give visibility to LGBT Research, with particular emphasis on LGBT Psychology, thus providing a significant contribution to a civic, socially conscientious and sustainable development in the current international scenario that respects sexual diversity.

For questions about registration please email aruivo.lisboa@abreu.pt

Infertility in History, Science and Culture

4 July 2013 - 5 July 2013 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

This symposium will explore the history of infertility, and the place of infertility in science and culture. Our primary focus is historical, but we welcome contributions from scholars in different disciplines and employing a range of approaches – social scientific, literary, feminist, psychological, and legal. We aim to bring together researchers working on this fascinating and under-explored field in order to better understand historical and contemporary representations and experiences of infertility across different cultures and from different perspectives.

Organiser(s): Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh) and Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University)

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

the role of gender, class and race in shaping experiences and representations of infertility;
individual, familial, and social contexts of infertility;
infertility as a bodily and/or psychological experience;
heterosexuality, homosexuality, and involuntary childlessness;
reproductive science and access to reproductive technologies;
the interplay of medical, scientific, and cultural understandings of infertility;
the role of politics, law, and religion in shaping experiences of and attitudes towards infertility;
changing experiences of infertility across time and space, including comparative histories;
the relation of perceptions of infertility to beliefs about fertility control, the constitution and social role of the family, and sexuality;
different disciplinary approaches to infertility.

An edited collection based on the presented papers is planned.

The symposium is co-convened by Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh) and Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University). It will be held at the University of Edinburgh on 4-5 July 2013.

Registration deadline: 30 April 2013

Contact details
Tracey Loughran
LoughranTL@cardiff.ac.uk