Dear colleagues,
Registration is now open for Sex & Sexualities in Popular Culture: Feminist Perspectives 2016.
We look forward to an interesting and stimulating day featuring, among others, papers on sex education in teen magazines, Channel 4's Sexbox, and the missing narratives of asexuality. We will also feature two practice showcases and a keynote by Hugo award winning science fiction critic and publisher Cheryl Morgan.
Date: September 3rd 2016
Venue: Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, Bristol
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-and-sexualities-in-popular-culture-feminist-perspectives-ii-registration-25311653838
Draft programme:
09:30 - 10:00: REGISTRATION
10:00 - 11:00: KEYNOTE
Cheryl Morgan (Wizard's Tower Press)
11:00 - 11:15: BREAK
11:15 - 12:45: PANEL A: (A)SEXUALITIES, ROMANCE AND PATRIARCHY
Maggie Jackson: Title TBC
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
Best wishes
The #popsex16 committee
Milena Popova
PhD Researcher
Digital Cultures Research Centre
University of the West of England, Bristol
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