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Porn Cultures:
Regulation, Political Economy, Technology
Monday 15- Tuesday 16 June, Weetwood Hall Leeds
conference programme
Monday 15 June
Registration and Coffee 9- 9.30 am
Welcome
Presentation of the Porn Cultures and Policy Network and aims of the conference
Porn Cultures and Policy Network convenors
Katharine Sarikakis Director Centre for International Communications Research (Leeds)
Liza Tsaliki (University of Athens)
Conference Co-organiser Dave Hesmondhalgh, Director Media Industries Research Centre
9.30-10.30 BRAMLEY ROOM
Sessions A and B 10.30- 12.00
| Session ABramley Room
The Political Economy of the Pornography Industry Chair: Dave Hesmondhalgh
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Session BLinden Room
Children and Pornography Chair: Liza Tsaliki |
| Pornography in the Global Sex Industry Sheila Jeffreys University of Melbourne AustraliaThe ‘Real’ Dominatrix: Myths, Mothers and Mobile Phone Numbers Jenny Barrett Edge Hill University UK Mikhail Bakhtin’s “fanciful anatomy:” Internet pornography and the politics of pleasure within a theory of proletarianization. Marcus Breen Northeastern University Boston USA Ksusha’s Story: Film screening and discussion |
The Death of “Child Erotica” Mary G. Leary Catholic University of America USA Consuming Innocence: Pornography and the Sexualisation of Children Debate Catharine Lumby University of New South Wales Australia Child pornography on the internet and policy questions. The Greek case Panayiota Tsatsou Swansea University UK Young People and Pornography: An Insight from North-East England
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Monday 15 June Continued
Lunch 12.15-1.30 Woodland Suite
Sessions A and B 1.45 -3.15
| Bramley Room Activism, Art and Politics
Chair: Rebecca Sullivan
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Linden Room Socialisation of the Sexually Explicit Imagery
Chair: Marcus Breen |
| The Rhetoric of Porn in Feminist and Postfeminist Art: From Critique to Complicity Sarah Smith The Glasgow School of Art UK Voices of resistance: the re-emergence of feminist anti-porn activism Julia Long London South Bank University UKDefining feminist pornography as an extension of the Third Wave Rachel Liberman University Of Colorado at Boulder USA The pornification of popular culture in Australia and the movement against it |
Does pornography damage young people? Alan McKee Queensland University of Technology AustraliaSexually Explicit Material and Adolescent Sexual Health – A cause for concern? Clare Bale UKDeconstructing Sexuality: Pornography and Docility Janelle McLeod University of Manitoba Canada Beyond the raincoats: The porn consumer in mainstream media |
Coffee Break 3.00 – 3.15
Monday 15 June continued
PLENARY 3.15- 4.45 Bramley Room
Revisiting Porn Cultures and Policy
Chair: Katharine Sarikakis
Mapping Pornography: Constructing and Deconstructing the Text
Prof Gail Dines, Wheelock College Boston USA
Regulating Pornography in the Age of the Internet
Prof Julian Petley, Brunel University UK
Regulating Extreme Pornography in the UK: the turn to law
Prof Clare McGlynn, Durham University, UK
4.45-5.30 Discussion and expression of interest for network research
5.30 Wine Reception
7.30pm Conference Dinner
Thai Edge Restaurant (New Portland Street, 7 Calverley Street, Leeds LS1 3DY)
Tuesday 16 June
Registration and Coffee 8.30 -9
Sessions A and B 9-10.30
| Bramley Room Reflections on Regulation
Chair: Katharine Sarikakis
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Linden Room Complicating the debates about the ‘pornification’ or ‘sexualisation’ of culture
Convenor: Rosalind Gill
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| What’s so wrong with morality? The regulation of ‘extreme pornography’ in the UK Paul Johnson University of Surrey UKWhere the Web meets regulation: the case of Karen Fletcher Beth Concepcion University of South Carolina USANot A Love Story: Framing the Canadian Sex Crisis Rebecca Sullivan University of Calgary Canada An analysis of Brazilian regulation on pornographic advertising |
Beyond the ‘sexualisation of culture’ thesis: an intersectional analysis, Rosalind Gill Open University UK altpornification: porn cultures and new online sex media, Feona Attwood, Sheffield Hallam University UK The Sex Inspectors’: Porn culture and sexual failure, Laura Harvey, Open University UK Too young to understand”? Children and ‘sexualised’ media Putting pornification and the sexual commodification of girls on the UK educational policy ‘Gender Agenda’ |
Coffee Break 10. 30- 10.45
Tuesday 16 June continued
Sessions A and B 10.45- 12.15
| Bramley Room Technologising Production and Consumption
Chair: Liza Tsaliki
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Linden Room The Porn Paradigm
Chair: Gail Dines |
| A paradox of power: The male pornography consumer Jennifer A. Johnson Virginia Commonwealth University USAVirtually Commercial Sex, Sarah Neely University of Stirling UK‘The Escort Experience’ Discourses of Commercial Sex Evangelos Liotzis University of Athens Greece Sites of intersectionality: Cyberporn and body geographies |
The Medical Authority of Pornography Meagan Tyler University of Melbourne Australia Public Sex, public choice and public policy: sexist advertising under scrutiny Lauren Rosewarne University of Melbourne Australia Sexually explicit imagery in the Romanian media Valentina Marinescu University of Bucharest Romania From Jekyll to Hyde: How the Porn Industry Grooms Male Consumers |
Lunch 12.30- 2.00 Woodland Suite
Tuesday 16 June continued
PLENARY 2.00- 3.30 Bramley Room
Reflecting on Action
Chair: Clare McGlynn
The Personal and the Universal Spectrum – the experience of the European Women’s lobby and trafficking
Elizabeth Law UK Board Member, European Women’s Lobby
Controlling Access to Indecent Images: Mediated Internet Communications
Prof Ian Walden Vice- Chair of Internet Watch Foundation,
Queen Mary, University of London
Depraving and Corrupting – Sex Works and Obscenity in the UK
Murray Perkins Senior Examiner (18 and R18 Categories) British Board of Film Classification
Coffee 3.30-3.45
Open assembly:
common ground for research agendas and intervention
