If both gender and sexuality are culturally constructed and ontologically performative, then it should come as no surprise that the ways in which sexualities are discussed in the U.S. academy do not translate easily into other cultural and national discourses. Indeed, "sexuality" has become a major source of dissension in transnational discussions focusing on such issues as women's human rights and the emergence of gay and lesbian movements. This conference will explore the problems and rewards of engaging in intercultural dialogue about sexualities. How and in what terms can we "know" about "sexualities" as we try to compare them? How are "sexualities," knowledges, and cosmologies inter-related?

The conference will create a space in which to explore the conceptual and cosmological differences that the term "sexualities" opens up. The goal of this collaborative venture will be to make those differences the basis for, rather than an obstacle to, non-imperializing exchange.

We invite submission of presentation proposals on, or related to, the following topics:

• Sex Tourism
• The Politics of Desire
• Sexuality and Spirituality
• Sexualities and Intercultural Dialogue
• Gay and Lesbian Movements in the "Second" and "Third" World
• Sexuality, Technology, and the Body
• Indigenous Bodies
• Sexuality and Cosmology
• Intersections of Local and Global Sexualities
• Cultural Frictions
• The AIDS Pandemic
• (Inter)disciplines and Sexualities
• Sexualities and Violence
• Sexualities and Epistemologies
• Colonizing Sexualities

Presentations should be approximately 30 minutes long. Please send 250-word abstract and two-page CV by October 19, 2001. Full-length text, if accepted will be due December 15, 2001.