Sex and Sexuality in Popular Culture: Feminist Perspectives conference

Posted on Jul 19, 2016

From Monika Drzewiecka

We would like to remind you that the deadline for registering for the Sex and Sexuality in Popular Culture: Feminist Perspectives conference (Bristol, September 3rd) is August 25th. If you are interested in attending, you can register here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-and-sexualities-in-popular-culture-feminist-perspectives-ii-registration-25311653838

We also have a number of free tickets for undergraduates. We’d be very grateful if you could promote the conference in your institutions to see if any of your students would be interested in attending! Here is the link for the undergrad Expressions of Interest (deadline is July 22):

https://pornresearcher.eu/2016/06/20/free-places-available-at-popsex16-for-undergraduate-students/

Here is the draft programme for the conference:

09:30 – 10:00: REGISTRATION

10:00 – 11:00: KEYNOTE

Cheryl Morgan (Wizard’s Tower Press)

11:00 – 11:15: BREAK

PRACTICE SHOWCASE: Judith Rifeser: Thinking feminine subjectivity with and through film: When theory meets practice

 

11:15 – 12:45: PANEL A: (A)SEXUALITIES, ROMANCE AND PATRIARCHY

Maggie Jackson: Getting ‘Out of the Woords’ and Coming ‘Clearn’: Paradoxical Happiness and Self-Actualization in the Music of Taylor Swift

Hannah Charnock: Teen magazines and the perils of petting in the long 1960s

Ada Cable: Illegible or Invisible: (not) understanding contemporary narratives of asexuality

12:45 – 13:30: LUNCH

13:30 – 15:00: PANEL B: NARRATIVES AND PERFORMANCES

Katarina Birkedal: The Loki Project: Gender, performance, and the aesthetics of cosplay

Petra Baumann: Fanfiction as feminist porn (?)

15:00 – 15:15: BREAK

15:15 – 16:45: PANEL C: GENDER AND SEXUALITY ON SCREEN AND PAGE

Amy Walker: From the Nuclear Family to Nuclear War: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Fallout 4

Fiona Reidy: Sexbox – an assault on British sensibilities or a lens into a nation’s long-standing tension with sexual pleasure?

Bronwen Edwards: Sleeping with the Enemy: SOE female agents and German officers in popular fiction

16:45 – 17:00: BREAK

17:00 – 18:00: WORKSHOP

18:00: CLOSING REMARKS

Milena Popova, Bethan Jones and Monika Drzewiecka

18:00 – 20:00: DRINKS AT THE WATERSHED BAR

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Best wishes,

The #PopSex16 Team

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