Full Programme
Venue: Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Thursday 3rd April 2014
6pm LitLive Event, Goldsmiths
An evening of creative writing, music and performances about sex. Writers include: Richard Scott, Elaine Castillo, Ama Budge plus many more.
**Delegates who will be in London for the conference are warmly invited to attend, however please note that accommodation is not provided.**
Friday 4th April 2014
9.30 – 10am Coffee and Registration
10am – 10.15am Opening Remarks: Professor Blake Morrison, Goldsmiths (RHB 137A)
10.15am – 11.45am PANEL SESSION ONE
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Panel title: Potency & Impotence Chair: TBC Venue: RHB 137A
Eleanor Perry (University of Kent), ‘Mutilated Existence: Poetry as a Means of Interrogating Notions of Femininity and Female Sexuality in Mass Culture’
Joanna Linsley (Independent), ‘Impotence: An Exercise in Endurance’
Dr Justin Hunt (University of Lincoln), ‘Writing Sex: Archival Negotiations and the Erotics of Research’ |
Panel title: Identities
Chair: TBC Venue: RHB 142
Dragan Todorovic (University of Kent) ‘Avatars at an Orgy: Sex as the Malfunction of Fiction’
Grace Dugdale (Independent), ‘Sex, Science and the Two Faces of Patriarchy’
Valentino Vecchietti (Independent), ‘Sex and the Abject: TransBodies, a Semiotic Reading of Estranged Meaning in Anomalous Bodies’
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Panel title: Censorship in the Digital Age Chair: TBC Venue: RHB 143
Thomas Darby (Independent) ‘Performing the Written Digital ‘
Jerry Barnett (Independent) Censorship, pornography and bureaucracy
Will Fee (Goldsmiths) ‘Sex, Violence and the Issue of Censorship in the Arts’
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11.45am – 12pm BREAK
12pm – 1.30pm PANEL SESSION TWO
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Panel title: Troubling the Division of Porn and its Audience/s Chair: TBC Venue: RHB 137A
Bethan Jones (University of Aberystwyth), ‘Porn Audiences and Prosumption: A Fannish Space in Porn’
Sarah Harman (Brunel University) and Helen Hester (University of Middlesex), ‘Giffing a Fuck: Non-narrative Pleasures in Participatory Porn Cultures’
Nick Kilby (De Montfort University), ‘Rethinking the Queer Response: A Reflection on Ecstatic Readings’ |
Panel title: Perversions of Modernism
Chair: TBC Venue: RHB 142
Ery Shin (University of Oxford), ‘Erasing/Immortalizing Race through Sex: Felix’s Death-wish in Nightwood’
Guy Stevenson (Goldsmiths), ‘Henry Miller and the ‘Remarkable Sexuality of the Twenties’
Chantal Kennedy (Goldsmiths) ‘Capitalism, Sex, and Michel Houllebecq’
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Panel title: Writing about Sex I Chair: TBC Venue: RHB 143
Andrea Mason (Goldsmiths), ‘Prurient Abject Voyeurism: Does She Squirt? A short story’
Richard Scott (Independent poet) Sex in Poetry
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1.30pm – 2.30pm LUNCH
2.30pm – 2.45pm Afternoon Readings: Season Butler, Blake Morrison, etc
2.45pm – 4.15pm PANEL SESSION THREE
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Panel title: Teenage Kicks Chair: TBC Venue: RHB 137A
Heather McConnell (Independent), Teenage girls, media and sex
Rachel Long (Goldsmiths), ‘I Blame my Mother, She Blames Me’
Henry Ivry (University of Leeds), ‘”We’ve Got a Situation”: Gender and Sexual Politics and the Transatlantic Dialogue of Jersey Shore, Geordie Shore, and The Valley.’
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Panel title: This is how we do it – Writing about sex II Chair: Francis Gilbert Venue: RHB 142
May-Lan Tan Jennifer Nadel Alice Ash Ardashir Vakil Andrea Mason Jenny Lewis
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Panel title: Writing the Erotic Chair: TBC Venue: RHB 143
Dr Josie Pearse (Independent) ‘Being Angel Strand: the Experience of Being a Black Lace Author’
Richard English (Brunel University), ‘Writing Romance: Love and Sex’
Sonia Overall (University of Kent), ‘Sex in Eden: Writing, Reading and Inhabiting Fictional Worlds’ |
4.15pm – 4.30pm BREAK
4.30pm – 5.15pm Keynote speaker: Michèle Roberts
5.15pm – 6pm Creative/Closing discussion
6pm – 6.30pm Wine reception
6.30pm – 7pm The Butch Monologues feat. The Drakes
The Butch Monologues uses interviews with butch-identified women living in the UK, Europe, USA, Australia and the Caribbean, and re-positions the negative, socially threatening concept of female masculinity into a place of pride.
7pm – 10pm Feelings: Venue TBC
A night of queer-friendly poetry, prose, performance, video and sad disco, curated by Sophie Robinson.
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