Sex and Sexuality in Popular Culture: Feminist Perspectives conference
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:
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