INSEP2013 – The Value(s) of Sexual Diversity

INSEP2013 – General Overview & Timetable

 

Monday 14 October 2013 – Overview

09:30 – 10:30:   Registration

• Registration: room Sint-Augustinus

10:30 – 11:00:   Introductory Comments

• 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: Sexuality: Methodology & Ethics I

• Complex Realities: Researching the Personal and Professional Sexual Experiences of Student Sex Workers in the UK Online
  Debbie Jones – The Student Sex Work Project, Swansea University, UK
  Sam Geuens – Clinical Sexologist, CEVI, Ghent University, Belgium
  Tracey Sagar – Principle Investigator The Student Sex Work Project, Swansea University, UK
• The Ethics and Politics of Student Sex Work Research
  Ron Roberts – Dept. of Arts & Social Sciences, Kingston University, UK
• Representation, Truth and Sex Workers
  Christopher Morris – Newport Film School – University of South Wales, UK
• The Sociologist as Cruiser: (Auto)Ethnographic Selves, Masculinities, Race, Class and Sexuality in Male Sex Work Arenas
  Cirus Rinaldi – University of Palermo, Italy

13:00 – 14:00:   Lunch break

14:00 – 16:00:   Sessions 2:

S2A: Sexuality: Methodology & Ethics II

• Students Studying Student Sexuality: Methodological and Ethical Implications
  Valerie De Craene & Maarten Loopmans, University of Leuven, Belgium
• Cam Girls, Lolitas and Gang Rapes. Studying Transactional Sex Through Virtual Ethnographies
  Alessandro Porrovecchio – University of the Littoral Opal Coast, France
• Queer(y)ing the Mainstream Through Migration
  Cesare Di Feliciantonio – Sapienza-Università di Roma, Italy
  Kaciano Barbosa Gadelha – Free University Berlin, Germany
• Addictions and Gender Issues
  Monica Pascoli – University of Udine, Italy

S2B: Thinking Sexual Identities

• Theories of Sexuality Reconsidered
  Miguel Angel Quintana Paz –Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes, Spain
• A Future Without Labels? Sexual Identity in a More Equal World
  Sebastian Buckle – University of Southampton, UK
• Jalons pour une sexothérapie pluraliste
  Tiphaine Besnard, Université Paris 1, France
• Reactions to Asexuality
  Irina Loizzo – Marymount Manhattan College, New York, USA

16:00 – 16:30:   Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00:   Sessions 3:

S3A: Sexuality: Methodology and Ethics III

• Empirical Research on Sexual Diversities under Repressive Rule Making (in post-Soviet Russia)
  George Zharkov – Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
• Juggling Involvement and Distance. Empirical Challenges to Rethink the Researcher’s Role in Sexual Studies
  Vulca Fidolini – University of Strasbourg, France
• Sexuality and Drug Addiction
  Gabriele Di Francesco – Università degli studi “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara, Italy

S3B: Sexuality, Identity, Law and Politics in the Middle-East

• LGBT Identity and Politics in Turkey
  Asiye Gün Güneş – Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
  Fulya Akgül –Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
• A Survey of the Freedom of Choice of Spouse  in the Law of the Islamic Republic of Iran
  Poopak Dehshahri – International Branch of Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
• The Quest for Lesbian Ethics in Contemporary Middle-Eastern Cultures
  Iman Al-Ghafari – Amsterdam Research Center for Gender and Sexuality, The Netherlands

18:00: CLOSE

Tuesday 15 October 2013 – Overview

09:30 – 11:00:   Session 4: Sexuality

• Post-Gender Ethics
  Lucy Nicholas – Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia
• Lesbian Ethics Re-Investigated: A Socio-Political Comment
  Marta Olasik – University of Warsaw, Poland
• Resistance and Ethical Self-Creation in Sex Work: A Legal Perspective
  Elizabeth Smith – La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

11:00- 11:30:    Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00:   Sessions 5:

S5A: BDSM Sexuality I

• Can ‘Safe Words’ Undermine Autonomy
  Yonatan Shemmer – The University of Sheffield, UK
• Safe Words? An Inquiry into the Concept of “Safe, Sane, Consensual”
  Angie Tsaros – Institute for Queer Theory, Berlin, Germany
• Oral Sex, Masochism, and Law
  Virgil W. Brower – Northwestern University, USA

S5B: Sexuality, Diversity and Education

• A Case for Sexual Diversity in Business Eduction
  Rosa Slegers – Babson College, Wellesley, USA
• Benign Sexual Variation?
  Tom Claes, CEVI, Ghent University, Belgium

13:00 – 14:00:   Lunch break

14:00- 15:30:    Sessions 6:

S6A: BDSM Sexuality II

• The Absorbing Questions of BDSM
  Gert Hekma – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Sacher-Masoch’s Convalescence: A Masochistic Time for Nietzsche’s Revalued Health
  Sarah Mann-O’Donnell – Northwestern University, USA
• BDSM Fantasies Become Practice
  Charlotta Carlström – Malmö University, Sweden

S6B: Sexuality and Discrimination

• Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UNRWA Staff: Issues of Honor and Trust
  Luca Putteman, Ethics Office of UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestinian refugees in the Near East, Amman, Jordan
• Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation, Homophobia, and Human Rights in Africa
  Aimar Rubio Llona – Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
• Cure Them of What? Expertise and Advocacy for Drug and HIV Interventions among MSM in France and Belgium
  Laurent Gaissad – Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium & Université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre, Paris, France

15:30 – 16:00:   Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30:   Sessions 7:

S7A: BDSM SexualityIII

• ‘Playing’ with Consent: Consent in BDSM
  Paul Reynolds – Edge Hill University, UK
• BDSM Among Consent and Sexual Citizenship Claims
  Laura Zambelli – University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Under Lock and Key?: The Politics of Heterosexual Sadomasochism in the Socio-Legal Imaginary
  Alex Dymock – University of Reading, UK

S7B: Representations of Sexuality

• Queering of SPORT – De-Normalization Beyond Diversifing of ‘Sexing’ in Sport
  željko Blaće
• The Representations of Black Masculinities in Mainstream South African Gay Media
  Katlego Disemelo – University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South-Africa
• Art in the Frame: Spiritual America and Indecent Images
  Mihail Evans – Institute for Advanced Studies, Bucharest, Romania

17:30: CLOSE

20:00 – …:          Conference dinner – location: tba

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