General Overview & Timetable
Wednesday 29 August 2012
09:00 – 10:30: Registration
- Registration: room 2.16
10:30 – 11:00: Introductory Comments
- Formal Institutional Welcome
- Welcome to the Conference (Tom Claes and Paul Reynolds)
- Academic Program for the Conference and Possible Outputs (Paul Reynolds)
- Conference Activities and Housekeeping (Tom Claes)
11:00 – 13:00: Session 1: Sexology and Sex Therapy
- Sexology in Poland: Emancipating Sex through Regulation of Gender
Agnieszka Koscianska – University of Warsaw, Poland - Alternative Narratives in Homosexual Aversion Therapy, 1950-1976
Donna Drucker – Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany - Should Sexologists Become the “New Gods”?
Werner Leys – Forensic Psychotherapist at PC Sint-Jan-Baptist, Belgium - Sex Therapy on TV. AnalysIs of the WAS & EFS Guiding Ethical Principles
Sam Geuens – INSEP/CEVI, Board Member of the Flemish Society for Sexology (VVS), Belgium
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00: Discussion Session 2: Sexology & Normalcy
- Position Paper 1: Is Self-Regulation the Key to Understanding and Treating Paraphilia (Effectively)?
Luk Gijs – Institute for Family and Sexuality Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium - Position Paper 2: Paraphilia, Paraphilic Disorder, and the Risk of Harm
Andreas De Block – Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00: Session 3: Autonomy
- Sexual Education
Alicja Gescinska–Ghent University, Belgium - Moving Away from Personhood: Fortifying the Pro-Choice Position
Joseph Novak – Cleveland State University, USA - Complying or Resisting? Reconfiguring Autonomy in Women’s Commitment to ‘Honour’
Sophie Withaeckx –Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
17:00 – 17:15: Comfort Break
17:15 – 18:-30: Session 4: Plenary Lecture
- Andrea Dworkin: a Reassessment
Bob Brecher – University of Brighton, UK
18:30 – 19:30: Drinks
Thursday 30 August 2012
09:30 – 11:00: Session 5: Conformism
- Sexual Citizenship Ethics
Tom Claes – Ghent University, Belgium - Sexual Politics between Conformism and Radicalisation
Tommi Paalanen – JAMK University of Applied Sciences & Sexpo Foundation, Finland - Heteronormativity or Heterosexualities? Negotiating Heteronormativity in Nightlife of Young Adults in Belgium
Valerie De Craene & Maarten Loopmans, KU Leuven, Belgium
11:00- 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00: Session 6: Benign Variation(s)
- Could Criminal Law Accommodate ‘Polymorphous Perversity’?
Alex Dymock – University of Reading, UK - Sexual Submission: Playing with Inequality
Angie Tsaros – University of Graz, Austria - Fifty Shades of Pale: Misconceiving ‘Kink’
Paul Reynolds – Edge Hill University, UK
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break
14:00- 15:30: Session 7: Global Cultures I
- Equality Contradiction and Women Movement in Global South
Ga Wu – YASS Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, China - Sexual and Reproductive Health of Migrants in the EU: Does Anybody Care?
Aurore Guieu, Ines Keygnaert, Marleen Temmerman, Kristien Roelens – International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH), Ghent University, Belgium - The Legacies of ‘Racial Treason:’ Fear, Aversion and Attraction under Societal Taboos on ‘Mixed Heritage’
Christien van den Anker – University of the West of England, UK
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00: Session 8: Sex Work
- Innovative and Ethical: A Methodological Framework for Researching the Well-being and Sexual Health of Student Sex Workers in Wales
Debbie Jones & Tracey Sagar – Swansea University, UK - Enjoy the Feeling of ‘Falling in Love’: Practices of Intimacies of Taiwanese Sex Tourists in Dongguan
Mei-Hua Chen – National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
20:00 – …: Conference Dinner
Friday 31 August 2012
09:30 – 11:00: Session 9: Law
- Homophobia and Intimate Partner Violence of Lesbians and Gay Men in Taiwan
Shu-Man Pan – National Taiwan Normal University & Jung-Tsung Yang – National Taipei University, Taiwan - Is Equality a Visible Right? A Consideration of Gender Norms and the Legislative Protection in the UK
Carol Kilgannon – University of Winchester, UK - A Queer Reading of the European Court of Human Rights Case Law on Sexual Orientation
Damian A. Gonzalez-Salzberg – University of Reading, UK
11:00- 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00: Session 10: Global Cultures II
- “If [my] local mosque can have karate lessons, kickboxing, [and] cooking lessons for women, why can’t they have sexual health in that?”
Karim Mitha – UK Department of Health, London, UK - Touching the Untouchable. Sex as Social Criticism in the Work of Naima el Bezaz
Martina Vitackova – Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic - Critical Prejudices, Western literature, and Conservative Faculties of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Mahdieh T. Khiyabani – Azerbaijan University of Shahid Madani, Iran
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break
14.00 – 15:30: Session 11: Norms
- Sexual Freedom and Monogamy
Natasha McKeever – University of Sheffield, UK - Sex, What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Nick Harding – University of Reading, UK - Mothers, Milk, Sexuality and Ethics
Sofie Vercoutere – Ghent University, Belgium
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30: Session 12: Porn
- Pornography as Performative Discourse
Oana Zamfirache – University of Bucharest, Romania - The UK Regulation of Sadomasochism on and off screen: The OPA and BBFC after R v Peacock
Sarah Harman – Brunel University, UK - A Psychobiosocial and Gender-focused Approach to Male and Female Pornography
Wim Slabbinck – Sexologist, Belgium
17:30 – 18:00: Closing Comments
