Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Health

Conference Program:

“Love and Globalization”

April 30-May 1, 2004

Friday, April 30

8:30-9:00: Coffee, continental breakfast, and conversation

9:00am, Session 1: Love and Globalization

Session Chair: Richard Parker

9:00-9:15: Richard Parker (Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University) – Welcome and conference introduction

9:15-9:45: Saskia Wieringa (University of Amsterdam) – “Is there no feeling…”: Negotiating Love and Sexuality in a Fem/Butch Community in Metropole Jakarta

9:45-10:15: Jennifer Hirsch (Department of International Health, School of Public Health, Emory U.) – “Love makes a family”: Globalization, Companionate Marriage, and the Modernization of Gender Inequality

Break until 10:30

10:30-11:00: Ken Plummer (Sociology Dept., U. Essex, UK) – Not a Love Story: Intimacies, Inequalities and Citizenship in a Global Age

11:00-11:15: Discussant: Gil Herdt (Human Sexuality Studies Program, SFSU)

11:15-11:30: Discussant: Shirley Lindenbaum (Anthropology, CUNY)

Discussion until 12:00 pm

Lunch: 12:00-1:00pm

1:00pm, Session 2: Love and Economic Transformation

Session Chairs: Miguel Muñoz-Laboy (Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia)

1:00-1:20: Carla Freeman (Anthropology, Emory) – Respectability and the Romance of Neo-Liberalism in Barbados

1:20-1:40: Florence Babb (Anthropology, Iowa) – Love for Sale: Sex, Sentiment, and Tourism in Contemporary Cuba

1:40-2:00: Linda-Anne Rebhun (Anthropology, Yale) – The Strange Marriage of Love and Interest: Economic Change and Emotional Intimacy in Northeast Brazil, Private and Public

2:00-2:20: Helen Safa (Anthropology, U. Florida) – Globalization, Inequality and the Growth of Female Headed Households in the Caribbean

2:20-2:30: Discussant: Connie Nathanson (Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia)

2:30-2:40: Discussant: Carole Vance (Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia)

Discussion until 3:00 pm

Break until 3:10

(Friday afternoon, continued)

3:10pm, Session 3: Love and Commodification

Session Chairs: Mark Padilla (Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia) and Ana Amuchastegui (Rockefeller Fellow, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia)

3:10-3:30: Elizabeth Bernstein (Anthropology, Barnard) – Temporarily Yours: The Sale and Purchase of Bounded Authenticity

3:30-3:50: Denise Brennan (Anthropology, Georgetown) – Love Work in a Tourist Town: Sex Workers and Resort Workers Perform at Love

3:50-4:10: Sealing Cheng (Rockefeller Fellow, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia) – Romancing the Club: Love Dynamics Between Filipina Entertainers and GIs in US Military Camp Towns in South Korea

4:10-4:30: Katherine Frank (SSRC Sexuality Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of

Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison) – Playcouples in Paradise: Lifestyles International and the Swinging Conference Scene

4:30-4:40: Discussant: Ida Susser (Anthropology, CUNY, and Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia)

4:40-4:50: Discussant: Kim Hopper (Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia)

Discussion until 5:15 pm

Saturday, May 1

9:30-10:00: Coffee, continental breakfast, and conversation

10:00am, Session 4: Love and Technology

Session Chair: Mario Pecheny (University of Buenos Aires & ILAS-Columbia) and Vera Paiva (Psychology, University of São Paulo, and Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia)

10:00-10:20: Marcia Inhorn (Health Behavior & Health Education and Department of Anthropology, U. Michigan) – Loving Your Infertile Muslim Spouse: Notes on the Globalization of IVF and its Romantic Commitments in Sunni Egypt and Shi’ite Lebanon

10:20-10:40: Gary Dowsett (Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia) – I type, therefore I cum: Technologies of the Body-in-Sex

10:40-11:00: Nicole Constable (Anthropology, U. Pittsburgh) – Love at First Sight? Visual Images and Virtual Encounters with Bodies

11:00-11:20: Purnima Mankekar (Anthropology, Stanford) – Dangerous Desires: Erotics in an Age of Transnationalism

11:20-11:40: Jeb Weisman (Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia) – Sinai in the Ghetto: Leveraged Love and Topographies of Confusion

11:40-12:00: Discussant: Rayna Rapp (Anthropology, NYU)

Discussion until 12:30 pm

Lunch: 12:30 - 1:30

(Saturday afternoon, continued)

1:30pm, Session 5: Love and Subjectivity

Chair: Robert Sember (Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia)

1:30-1:50: Heather Paxson (Anthropology, MIT) – Love in the Time of Prophylaxis: Erotas, Agape, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Greece

1:50-2:10: David Eaton (Middlebury) – Changing Vulnerabilities of Intimacy in Northern Republic of Congo

2:10-2:30: Matthew Gutmann (Anthropology, Brown) – Frisky and Risky Totems: Medicalizing Male (Hetero)Sexuality in Oaxaca, Mexico

2:30-2:50: Niels Teunis (Human Sexuality Studies Program, SFSU) – [Paper Title TBD]

2:50-3:00: Discussant: Rosalind Morris (Anthropology, Columbia)

Open discussion until 3:30 pm

Break until 3:45

3:45-4:30: Group discussion on: conceptual organization of conference, cross-cutting themes, and structure of upcoming edited volume - Facilitator: Richard Parker