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