Programme
Programme
Conference 4-6 October 2023
Zoom & The University of Warwick
All times are in British Summer Time (BST)
WEDNESDAY 4 OCTOBER | ZOOM ONLY
09:50 – 10:00
WELCOME
10:00 – 11:40 PANEL 1: DIGITAL NEGOTIATIONS AND SEXUAL SELF-CONSTRUCTION
“I Just Want to Sell My Titties Online”: Digital Gentrification and the Moral Order
Dr Rébecca S. Franco, University of Amsterdam, Holland
Self-Pornographization, Glamorization and the Body Under Colonial Capitalism: Art Practices
-> Concupiscencia: Queer Aesthetics of Porn and Smut <-
AJ Bravo, University of Kent, UK
Working the Pole?: An Exploration of Pole Dancers’ Content Creation Practices on Social Media
Charlotte Curle, Lancaster University, UK
The Role of Instagram in Religious Women’s Negotiations of Gender and Sexual Identity
Rachel Abreu, University of Stirling, Scotland
11:40 – 12:00
BREAK
12:00 – 13:40 PANEL 2: PLATFORMING SEX WORK
Unveiling Narratives: From Public Health Crisis and Media Bias to the Destigmatization of Sex Work
Ola Miedzynska, Erobella, Germany
Dr Valerie Webber, Dalhousie University, Canada
Sex Workers, Influencers, Gig Workers or All of the Above: The Experiences of Sex Workers on OnlyFans in Turkey
Ece Alparslan, Galatasaray University, Turkey
Duru Su Kadıoğlu, Galatasaray University, Turkey
Intimacy Beyond Sex - Building Customer Loyalty in Digital Media Post-FOSTA SESTA
Cristiane de Melo, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
13:40 – 15:00
BREAK
15:00 – 16:00
KEYNOTE: LUCA STEVENSON
Recent Advances and Setbacks of the Sex Workers’ Rights Movement
16:30 – 18:10 PANEL 3: SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND FEMALE SEXUALITIES
The Shift in the Representations of Rape in Female-directed Horror Films
Bruna Foletto Lucas, Kingston University London, UK
“Est-ce que tu aimes le sexe?”: Sexual Encounters and Sexual Trauma for Black Girls in Contemporary French Film and Literature
Tiffany Bailey, University of Boston, US
Pleasures in Transgression: Excess and Grotesquerie in Chewing Gum
Jacqueline Johnson, University of Southern California, US
THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER | ZOOM ONLY
10:00 – 11:40 PANEL 1: SEXUAL PEDAGOGIES AND AUTHENTICITY
Disturbing Encounters: Teens and Tweens Watching Mature Content in Fiction Films
Adrienne Boutang, University of Franche-Comté, France
Emerging Indian Asexualities: Challenging the Sexual Normativity through Asexual Archives
Malavika, IIT Tirupati, India
Love Bytes: Navigating Entanglements of Sex and Romantic Love through FLINT* Individuals’ Use of the Hinge Dating Application
Erinne Paisley, University of Amsterdam, Holland
Losing Touch: (De)Materialising Eros in Contemporary Popular Fiction
Dr Mary Harrod, University of Warwick, UK
11:40 – 12:00
BREAK
12:00 – 13:40 PANEL 2: TRANSGRESSIVE PLEASURES AND FUTURES
The Sex that I Love is Killing Me: Disease, Discrimination, and the Limits of Immuno-Politics in Russell T. Davies’; British Television Drama It's a Sin
Arindam Nandi, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Fifty Shades of the Ripper: The Romanticisation of a Nineteenth-Century Serial Killer in Modern Culture
Katrina Jan, University of Birmingham, UK
Technologically Mediated Sexual Exploration in Videogames and “The Playful Child”: From Sexual Surveillance to Queer Futurism
Jean Ketterling, Carleton University, Canada
Perverse Lesbianism: BDSM, Rape, and Incest in Cyber Chinese Girls’ Love (GL) Fiction
Dr Jamie J. Zhao, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
13:40 – 15:00
BREAK
15:00 – 16:00
KEYNOTE: SUSANNA PAASONEN
In a Sea of Dicks: On the Limits of Porn
16:30 – 18:10 PANEL 3: PORNOGRAPHIES
Terms of Service: Audacity, Imagination and Archiving Black Sexual Pleasure
Dr Alexandria C. Cunningham, Independent Scholar, US
Blacked out of Vanilla: Redressing Authenticity of Male Blackness through Satire in Interracial Porn
Kellen Sharp, University of Texas, US
Feminist Pornography as Radical Flank: A Consideration of Historical Rupture
Rachael Liberman, University of Denver, US
Be(ing) Quiet with Silence: An Undisciplined Analysis of Silence(s) Surrounding Black Male Homoerotic Desire and Being in Moonlight
Tirrezz Hudson, University of California, US
FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER – IN-PERSON AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK (& ONLINE ACCESS VIA ZOOM)
08:30 – 09:00
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
09:00 – 10:40 PANEL 1: MEDIATING BODIES
Queer Sex, Trans Sexuality, and Haptic Visuality in Ester Martin Bergsmark’s Something Must Break (2014)
Mingyuan Wan, University of Cambridge, UK
Beyond the ‘Happy Hooker’: Politics of Refusal and Ambivalence in the English Collective of Prostitutes Archive (1975-2019), Bishopsgate Institute
Emily Pickthall, University of Warwick, UK
Filling the Literary Line-Break: The Politics of Blank Space in Writing Sex
Melissa Wan, University of Leeds, UK
Censorship and the Role of the Media in the Perceptions of Sex and Disabled Individuals
Cavyn Mitchell, London, UK
10:40 – 11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:40 PANEL 2: PERFORMING (DIS)INTIMACIES
The Frenzy of the Intelligible: AI Sex in Her and Blade Runner 2049
Dr Laurence Kent, University of Bristol, UK
Between Bodies: Coordinating Consensual Intimacies
Heath Pennington, University of California Santa Barbara, US; Queen Mary University, UK
She Said, She Said: Silence Breaking, Performance Activism and Screening Women’s Stories of Sexual Harassment
Dr Donna Peberdy, Solent University Southampton, UK
12:40 – 13:30
LUNCH BREAK
13:30 – 14:30
KEYNOTE: CLARISSA SMITH
Humour, Pathos, and Provocation: Deconstructing Adult Material and Its Contradictions
14:30 – 15:00
BREAK
15:00 – 16:40 PANEL 3: HORNINESS AND SEXUAL AFFECTS
‘Daddy is a State of Mind’: Horniness, Stardom, and Pedro Pascal
Dr Julie Lobalzo Wright, University of Warwick, UK
“That goes in the butt bank”: Tina Belcher and The Horny Teen in a Queer Time and Place
Dr Matt Denny, University of Warwick, UK
Horny Furniture and Renting by the Hour: The Motel as a Place of Sexual Permission and Play in American Cinema
Danielle Rae Childs, University of Warwick, UK
16:45 – 17:00
CLOSING REMARKS
Closing remarks, followed by an informal reception at the Scarman Hotel on campus