Conference program

Confirmed Keynote presentations

  • Daniela Truffer and Markus Bauer founding members of the Swiss Intersex Human Rights organization Zwischengeshclecht.
  • Holly Greenberry, co-founder of the activist group Intersex UK.
  • Alessandro Comeni, co-founder of OII-IT and steering board member of OII-EU.
  • Irene Kuzemko, co-founder of Intersex Russia and member of InterACT Youth.
  • Daniela Crocetti, Surya Monro and Tracey Yeadon-Lee (University of Huddersfield), reporting on the Intersex Citizenship and Human Rights project.

Confirmed Panels

 

I. Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Intersex Activism

II. Intersex and Law: Present Problems and Future Directions IV. Intersex and Temporality

III. Law and Intersex 2: Unequal ‘Treatments’ and New Comparators

IV. Intersex and Temporality

V. The protection of intersex persons by international law

 

I. Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Intersex Activism

Chair: Elizabeth Reis

1.Consent, Autonomy, and Intersex Genital Surgeries Before and After Bioethics; Elizabeth Reis (City University of New York)

2. Humanistic Care for Intersex: What Gender-nonconforming Youth Can Teach Us; Arlene Baratz (InterACT Advocates for Intersex Youth)

3. American Medical Education about Intersex: A Comparative Historical Study of Curricular Resources about Intersex; Sharon Preves (Hamline University)

4.The Powers of Testosterone: Obscuring Race and Regional Bias in the Regulation of Women Athletes; Katrina Karkazis (Yale University) and Rebecca M. Jordan-Young (Barnard College)

5. Intersex Pride, Fat Shame: The Paradox of Bodily Autonomy; Georgiann Davis (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

 

II. Intersex and Law: Present Problems and Future Directions

Chair: Dr Susannah Cornwall (University of Exeter)

1. The Right to Personal Autonomy of Persons with Variations of Sex Characteristics; Pieter Cannoot (Ghent University)

2. Mapping the Transition to “Informed Consent” Models for Medical Interventions on Persons with Intersex Conditions (or other Differences in Sex Development); Dr Jameson Garland (Uppsala University)

3. Why are Intersex Surgeries still happening? Jurisdiction, Scale and Temporality; Dr Mitchell Travis (University of Leeds) and Dr Fae Garland (University of Manchester)

 

III. Law and Intersex 2: Unequal ‘Treatments’ and New Comparators

Chair: Dr Mitchell Travis (University of Leeds)

1.Comparing the Legitimacy of Genital Surgery in Transgender and Intersex Minors: An Alternative Ethical Perspective; Edmund Horowicz (Edge Hill University)

2.Sex and Gender in the Family Court; Aileen Kennedy (University of New England, Australia)

3.Bodily Rights and Gifts: Intersex, Religion, and Human Rights; Dr Susannah Cornwall (University of Exeter)

 

IV. Intersex and Temporality

Chair TBC

1. Time Matters for Intersexed Bodies: Between Socio-medical Time and Somatic Time; Limor Meoded Danon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2. Harms to the Child, in their ‘Being’ and ‘Becoming’, arising from ‘Normalising’ Genital Surgeries; Sorcha Uí Chonnachtaigh (Keele University)

3. Queer Temporalities and the Futureless Moment of Hypospadias ‘Repair’; David Andrew Griffiths (University of Surrey)

4. Liquid Gender | Sculpting for a Multipolar Gender Image; Fabian Vogler (Independent Artist)

 

V. The protection of intersex persons by international law

Chair TBC

1. Prohibition of Non Consented Sex Assignment Surgeries in Public International Law; Benjamin Pitcho (Member of the Paris Bar and of the Bar Council)

2. Recognition of Third Gender and its Consequence for Sexed or Gendered Rules; Mila Petkova (Member of the Paris Bar)

3. Deletion of Sex Markers on Identity Documents; Benjamin Moron-Puech (University Panthéon-Assas).

4. What can International Law do for Intersex and what can Intersex Issues teach us about International Law; Emmanuel Bourdoncle (University Panthéon-Assas)