30 May 2014 | Sex Critical Approaches to Pornography
A guest-organized session convened by Prof. Feona Attwood & Dr Helen Hester, Middlesex University.
Venue: The Boardroom, 2nd Floor, College Building, Hendon Campus, Middlesex University
From 2pm. (The seminar will take the form of four 10-minute-long discussion papers followed by responses and debate. This session will therefore be shorter than the average Critical Sexology seminar.)
The guest organizers suggest that attendees might read Lisa Downing’s blog post on “sex critical” thinking prior to attending the seminar. (See here: http://www.sexcritical.co.uk/2012/07/27/what-is-sex-critical-and-why-should-we-care-about-it/ )
Speakers:
Dr Helen Hester, Middlesex University: ‘What’s So Critical About Sex Critical Approaches to Pornography?’
Dr Giovanna Maina, University of Sunderland: ‘Cabaret Desire: Critical Reception of Feminist Porn’
Dr Stephen Maddison, University of East London: ‘Pornographic Enterprise: Immaterial Sex and Compulsory Pleasure’
Dr. Lucy Neville, Middlesex University: ‘ “I don’t want to be presented as some sort of freak-show… but you’re ‘one of us’”: Researching women’s engagement with gay male erotica from within the community’
Respondents:
Prof. Lisa Downing, University of Birmingham
Sarah Harman, Brunel University
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The interdisciplinary Critical Sexology seminar series is co-organized by Lisa Downing, Meg Barker and Robert Gillett.
Critical Sexology seminars are free and open to all. There is no need to register your intention to attend with the organizers.
