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Metal-organic complexes, assemblies, and networks at surfaces are of growing interest due to the vast library of two dimensional architectures that have been discovered and the interest in applying these systems toward novel chemical and electronic applications. As this field matures, important fundamental questions remain as to the electronic, charge transfer, and redox character of the components of these systems, as these issues are at the centre of their most interesting properties. This symposium will address new research advances in this theme by gathering top experts in the subject from around the world for a one day meeting at the University of 糖心TV (see schedule below). We encourage contributions from students and postdocs for the poster session and welcome participation in the symposium from anyone interested in the topic.

This symposium is supported by the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of 糖心TV. Participation is free of charge, but we do ask that you please register so that we have an accurate head count for seating and for lunch. Please send your name and affiliation to steven.tait@warwick.ac.uk with subject line 鈥淐T symposium.鈥� If you would like to present a poster, please send the poster title and a short abstract (less than 250 words) to the same address.

A discussion session will be held in advance of the symposium for anyone interested in reviewing recent work by the speakers. This session will be especially intended to encourage and facilitate active participation and discussion throughout the symposium by students and postdocs, so they are especially encouraged to attend, if possible. This session will take place on Wednesday, November 7 from 10:00-12:00.

Dr Oliver Schelske (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t M眉nchen) "Herodotus' Histories - a manual of making political decisions?"

Dr Schelske specialises in epic poetry, notably the Argonautica of Orpheus, ancient historiography and reception studies.

http://www.klassphil.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wiss_ma/schelske/index.html

Organiser: LMU Munich

The event is sponsored by LMUexcellent (DFG Excellence Initiative).

Chair: Theodora Hadjimichael

(London Metropolitan University) will be delivering a presentation addressing the crisis of violence and security provision in Mexico. It addresses the violence affecting women in Ju谩rez, where nearly 1,500 women have been reported murdered since the mid-1990s, and over 3,000 are still missing. Many of the victims are found strangled, mutilated, dismembered, stabbed, sexually abused, burned and with their breasts cut off in desert zones, vacant lots, stream beds, sewers and rubbish dumps. Elaborated pink crosses adorned with flowers and the victims鈥� names written in black on the crossbars are located by activists in places where women鈥檚 corpses have been found. They symbolise the urgent need for strategies to prevent new murders, the protest against the impunity for the crimes already committed and the demand for adequate revaluation of the ideology that ignores and sometimes justifies physical and structural violence against women in the region. The issue of femicide and the impunity over it ultimately provides evidence of the predetermined value on who is targeted to die in Ju谩rez and why.

All are welcome to attend. Please feel free to bring your own refreshments.

The reception and development of queer theory in France has offered an opportunity to reconsider the state of queer theory more widely. French queer thinkers have shown a common concern for addressing the materiality of the body, following transgender theorists (Prosser, Namaste) in their critiques of Anglophone queer thought: for queer thinkers in France, Anglophone queer theory and figures such as Judith Butler have 鈥榸app茅 le corps鈥�. While trans theorists hold queer theory鈥檚 grounding in poststructuralism responsible for its 鈥榚lision鈥� of the material body, queer thinkers emerging from the French context such as Paul B. Preciado offer creative ways of combining the insights of poststructuralism with (new) materialist elements. This paper will interrogate these diverging approaches to how we understand the material body and its relation to language. I compare the use of skin as a metaphor to describe the relation between language and the body in Preciado鈥檚 work, as well as that of Jean-Luc Nancy, whom I take as paradigmatic of poststructuralist positions which see language and matter as entirely separate from one another. Drawing on Preciado鈥檚 work, I outline the concept of queer permeability as a way of considering the materiality of language, of addressing the difficulty poststructuralist work has had of taking material bodies into account. Finally, I argue that accounting properly for material bodies and the permeability between materiality and discourse is vital to queer thought and to queer politics.

Ina Linge (Exeter)

The Potency of the Butterfly: Gender, Sexuality and Non-human Animals in German Sexology and the Arts after 1900

鈥楺ueer permeability: the body and queer theory in France鈥�

Dr Elliot Evans (University of Birmingham)