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Monday 22 February 2016 – Overview
09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome & Introduction to the Project
10:00 – 11:00 Session 1: The University and Hetero-Masculinity
- Educating for marriage: the university’s heteronormative programming
Frank G. Karioris - Implementing gender quotas in the academia: staff attitudes at a mid-range Belgian university
Jolien Voorspoels
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Session 2: Queer Pedagogy
- “Something that they’ve been taught is not allowed”: Sexual liberation and critical pedagogy in harmony and in conflict in the seminar room
Esther Saxey - Teaching queer / Queer teaching in Poland
Piotr Sobolczyk - Transgression and trigger warnings: Bataille and the challenges for a feminist pedagogy
Tom Bamford
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Student Sex Work
Identity and image management strategies of student sex workers
- Judith Van Schuylenberg
- Insights into the phenomenon of student sex work: activities and motivations of UK student sex workers
Sam Geuens - The paradoxes of student sex work
Tom Claes
15:30 – 16:00 coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00 Session 4: The Academy and Consent
- Technologizing consent: reframing campus sexual assault as an ongoing catastrophe
Caroline F. DeCunzo - Infantilising the university: the “Consensual Relationships Policy” of a British institution of Higher Education
Bob Brecher - Some Thoughts on the Ethics of Lecturer-Student Sexual Relationships
Paul Reynolds - On the use and the abuse of an ‘Absolute’
Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield
Tuesday 23 February 2016 – Overview
10:00 – 11:00 Session 5: The Politics of Sex in the Academy
- The Oblation Run: obscene or political?
Sharon Caringal - The loud silence on anti-sexual harassment policy in Kenyan public universities: conceptualization and challenges
Emmy Kipsoi
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Session 6: Teaching Sexuality
- Higher education as a vehicle for attitude change
Christine Campbell - Reflecting on my/his feminist pedagogy: a case of “Gendered nonverbal communication” Course in Japan
Naoki Kambe - Starting out with ‘that porn course’: an academia novice’s sketch on difficulties teaching the libertine canon
Alexander Zimbulov
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Session 7: Researching Sexuality
- Entanglements and folds: researching law and sexuality at the Coast
Victoria Brooks - Some key issues in researching pornography
Karen Gabriel - Sex and the anthropologist: embodying and sharing knowledge inside, outside and a‐side the Academy
Nicoletta Landi & Valerie De Craene
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Session 8: Closing Session
