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Conference Programme

2nd Global Conference

Kink & The Erotic

Saturday 7th March 2020 – Sunday 8th March 2020

Prague, Czech Republic


FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Saturday 7th March 2020

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Opening Words: Kristine Seitz

09:30 – 10:30 Session 1: Kink & Trauma Workshop
Chair: Kristine Seitz

Kink, Trauma, Transformation
Samantha Manewitz

10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee

11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Erotic Voyeurism & Erotic Desires
Chair: Susanne Schotanus

Decoding Voyeurism in Villette and Victorian Porn
Lorraine Rumson

Hollywood’s Hawaiʻi: The Creation, Instillation, and Preservation of the Tourist Gaze
Jack H. Anderson

The «Erotic» as fuel for the «machines désirantes»?
Axel Fussi

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Session 3: Rehabilitating Consent Violators Workshop
Chair: Samantha Manewitz

Rehabilitating Consent Violators Within the BDSM Community: What We as Professionals Can Do to Help
Sara Morgen Mairs

14:30 – 15:30 Session 4: Analysing Kink
Chair: Colby Agostinelli

Caring about Kink/Caring in Kink
Susanne Schotanus

Order in Disorder, Disorder in Order: Critical Analysis of Reasons Behind the Changes in the Diagnostic Classification of BDSM and Kink
Lucie Drdová

15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee

16:00 – 17:00 Session 5: Pain & Pleasure Workshop
Chair: Colin Ripley

The Paradox of Pain and Pleasure: Why Pain Turns People On
Tatyannah King

17:00 – 17:30 Consolidation and Cross Panel Discussion

17:30 Wine and Drinks Reception

Sunday 8th March 2020

09:00 – 10:00 Session 6: Yes/No/Maybe Workshop
Chair: Lawrence Buttigieg

Boundary Negotiation in Kink: An Expansive Take on the Yes/No/Maybe List
Colby Agostinelli

10:00 – 10:30 Session 7: Eroticizing Spaces
Chair: Jeremy Vaughan

Stealing Kisses: On the Erotics of Architecture
Colin Ripley

10:30 – 10:45 Tea/Coffee

10:45 – 12:00 Session 8: Erotic Bodies
Chair: Lorraine Rumson

A Shaved Crotch—A Sign of Subjugation or Empowerment?
Lawrence Buttigieg

Aesthetics of Body Modification in the Kink Communities
Jeremy Vaughan

Forever: Teaching the Erotic Logic of Permanence
Leslie Katz

12:00 – 13:00 Session 9: Consent Workshop
Chair: Tatyannah King

Teaching Consent in Community and Festival Environments
Kathy G. Slaughter

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Session 10: Bodies Panel

The Body & Sex: The True Prima Materia of Alchemy
S. Brennan Kettelle & L. Faith Pramuk

14:30 – 15:45 Session 11: Kink & Media
Chair: Sara Morgen Mairs

Mainstream(ing) Kink: Unconventional Sex, Hollywood Cinema, and the Popular Imagination
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart & Janice E. McCall

Working out the Online Kinks: Navigating Porn Consumption in Intimate Relationships
Alisha Fisher

Confessions of Anaïs Nin, Jr.
Victoria Amador

15:45 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee

16:00 – 17:00 Session 12: Tantric BDSM workshop
Chair: Janice E. McCall

Tantric BDSM: Power & Surrender in an Ecstatic Path
Francesca Gentille

17:00 – 17:30 Discussion and Day Two Consolidation

17:30 – 18:00 Project Development, Closing Thoughts and Goodbyes