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Monday 16 October

18:00 - Welcoming reception

19:00 - Dinner

20:30 - Evening performance

• Kelly Gardiner: “Duelling, gender, and love in the court of the Sun King” (p.1)

Tuesday 17 October

8:00 - Breakfast

9:00 - Material and immaterial protests

• Dikmen Yakali-Camoglu: “Ferzan Ozpetek’s Cinema: A Post-constructivist Approach to Gender and Love” (p. 2)
• Tobias Skiveren: “Lost in Flesh: Methodological Meditations on Feminist New Materialism and Literary Studies” (p. 3)
• Chantelle Gray: “Love at the Limits” (p. 4)

10:30 - Coffee/Tea

11:00 - Mutual conditionings of gender and love

• Mie Birk Jensen: “When I drink, I feel like I can pick up the whole world”: Explorations of intoxicated flirting among young adults” (p. 5)
• Lea Skewes: “How queer are we, and how does the tool we use to measure this, affect the results? - An ethnographic study in how sex/gender categories interact with scientific measurements” (p. 6)

12:00 - Lunch

13:00 - Relaxation

14:00 - Keynote address

• Sara Davidmann: “Transgender and love in Ken. To be destroyed and collaborative photography” (pp. 7-8)

15:30 - Coffee/Tea

16:00 - Constructions of gender and love – I

• Amrita Chakraborty: “The Animal Bridegroom and the Materiality of Love” (p. 9)
• Archana Rathore: “The Study of Deconstruction of Gender and Love in Indian Hindu Mythology” (p. 10)
• Johanne Louise Virenfeldt Christiansen: “A Woman’s ‘Self-Wronging’: Gender and Love in the Qur’anic Encounter between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba” (p. 11)

18:00 - Dinner

Wednesday 18 October

8:00 - Breakfast

9:00 - Love beyond the human

• Louis van den Hengel: “For Love of the World: Inhuman Intimacies in Ecosexual Performance Art” (p. 12)
• Alana Vincent: “Gender and Love in Modern Golem Literature” (p. 13)
• Svala Vagnsdatter Andersen: “Fetishistic Love – the irreplaceable replacement” (p. 14)

10:30 - Coffee/Tea

11:00 - Constructions of gender and love – II

• Malakeh Shahizadeh: “Prosthetic Love in the Context of Implant Gender Roles: A Case Study of Iranian New Wave Cinema” (p.15)
• Wernmei Yong Ade: “Make Love, Not War: Alternative Lovescapes in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve” (p.16)

12:00 - Lunch

13:00 - Relaxation

14:00 - Critical Masculinity Studies and the Question of Love (p.17)

• Jonathan Allan: “The Pleasures of Masculinity: On Desire, Fantasy, and Consumption” (p. 17)
• Serena Petrella: “Intimacy on the Edge: Masculine Performances in BDSM” (p. 18)
• Chris Haywood: “Intensity, Desire and Erotic Encounters: Masculinity, Dogging and the De-subjectification of Men” (p. 19)

15:30 - Coffee/Tea

16:00 - Contestations of motherly love

• Stevi Jackson: “Love in different climates: love, care and practices of intimacy among Hong Kong and British women” (p. 20)
• Djuna Violeta Hallsworth: “'Forget About Love': Reconciling Sexual Autonomy and Motherhood in Nymphomaniac (2013) and the Danish Welfare State” (p. 21)
• Deirdre C. Byrne: “’Yet the old woman will not sleep’: A matrixial reading of Ursula K. Le Guin’s maternal poetry” (p. 22)

19:00 - Banquet

Thursday 19 October

8:00 - Breakfast and checkout

9:00 - Discourses of location in gender and love

• Mustafa K. Topal: “’The woman, who fights, becomes free’: Redefining Gender and Love in the Kurdish Political Movement” (p. 23)
• Serena Petrella: “The end of ‘Big Love’? The Fiscal and Criminal Prosecution of Mormon Celestial Marriages in British Columbia, Canada” (p. 24)
• Jennifer Slater: “Gender and Love in Africa: a contentious environment for theological, cultural and human rights discourse” (p. 25)

10:30 - Coffee/tea

11:00 - Protests against discursive attempts at construction

• Kelly Gardiner: “Rethinking butch: Walking the talk” (p. 26)
• Marianne Schleicher: “Material protests against gender norms among queer Jews in Israelite-Jewish religion” (p. 27)

12:00 - Lunch

13:00 - Inaugural General Meeting

14:00 – Farewell

14:15 – Short meeting for the members of the steering committee