Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

2nd Global Conference

Monday 3rd May 2010 – Wednesday 5th May 2010
Prague, Czech Republic

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The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Monday 3rd May 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Paul Reynolds

14.00
Session 1: Questions of Desire
Chair: Paul Reynolds

Taboo: Young Strippers and the Politics of Intergenerational Desire
Maria-Belén Ordóñez

Considerations of Desire in Sexual Assault Law
Elaine Craig

Life is a Cabriolet, Old Chum:  Auto-eroticism, death and law in J G Ballard’s Crash
Mark Thomas

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2a: Sex Law and Its Practitioners
Chair: Jessica Kennedy

Sexual Deviancy and the Sex Police. An Examination of the Religious, Cultural and Psycholegal Antecedents of Perceived Perversion
Helen Gavin and Jacqui Bent

Barristers’ perspectives on the 2003 Sexual Offences Act
Clare Gunby, Anna Carline and Caryl Beynon

Primum Non Nocere (First, do no harm…) Does the Taking of Forensic Photographs Cause more Harm than Good to Adult Victims of Sexual Assault
Katherine Brown

Session 2b: Sex Beyond the Pail?: Sex and Animals
Chair: Allison Moore

Beyond the Margins: Extra-Legal Persecution of Cross-Species Sexuality
Douglas Spink

For the Love of Dog: An Analysis of the Prohibition of Zoophilia in Canada and the US Brian Anthony Cutteridge

What’s Wrong With Having Sex With Animals?
James A. Martell

17.30
Notices/Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Tuesday 4^th May 2010
09.30
Session 3a: Rape and Sex Law in Global Context
Chair: Elaine Craig

The Rights (Boxing) Ring: Australian Rape Trials
Jessica Kennedy and Patricia Easteal

Rape And Sexual Harassment In Philippine Law
Emmanuel Q. Fernando

Session 3b: Regulating the Sex Trade / Regulating Vulnerability(ies)’ I
Chair: Sharon Cowan

Abusing Vulnerability: Contemporary Responses to Sex Work & Sex Trafficking in the UK
Vanessa Munro

Adaptive Normative Spatiality and the State Regulation of Female Vulnerability: The Case of the Trafficked Migrant
Sharron FitzGerald

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4a: Regulating the Sex Trade / Regulating Vulnerability(ies)’ II
Chair Sharron FitzGerald

The Victimised Subject of Prostitution: Resisting Regulation by Reconstructing the Subject / Power Nexus
Jane Scoular

Selling Vulnerability: BDSM Sex and the Power of Choice
Sharon Cowan

Ethics, Vulnerability(ies) and Sex Work: A Butlerian Perspective
Anne Carline

Session 4b: Identity Issues and Sexual Politics
Chair: Amy White

Trans Integration: Understanding the Value of Trans-Identity from a Relational Stance
Claudia C. Lodia

The Right To Gender Recognition: Sex, Gender, And Legal Status
Tanya Ní Mhuirthile

There’s more to Reproduction than Sex: Challenging the Heteronormativity of Reproductive Desire Down Under
William Leonard

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Pornography
Chair Chloë Taylor

Pornography: Is There a Connection Between Treating Things as People and Treating People as Things?
Lina Papadaki

Pornography Censorship: Feminist Claims and Free Speech
Amy White

Criminalising the Possession of Extreme Pornographic Images – A Critical Examination of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act (2008)
Allison Moore

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session  6: Victims Issues
Chair: Caterina Rea

Alternatives to Prosecution: Restorative Possibilities for Victims in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Elisabeth McDonald and Yvette Tinsley

Sexual and Gender Motivated Harassment at Czech Universities: Incidence, Perception and Implications for Sexual Ethics
Kateřina Kolářová Ing. Petr Pavlík Irena Smetáčková

Rape, Unlawful but not Unhealthy? A Philosophical Analysis
Stephanie Koziej

17.30
Sessions End

Wednesday 5^th May 2010
09.30
Session 7a: Sex Offender Issues
Chair : Yvette Tinsley

The Influence Of Family Violence In Young Sexual Offenders Behaviours
Ricardo Barroso,  Celina Manita, Pedro Nobre

The Value of the Therapeutic Relationship, Respect and Positive Life Changes in the Treatment of Adult Sex Offenders
John Brown

Session 7b: Sex And The Law Through The Lenses Of Age & Mental Disability’
Chair Vanessa Munro

The Notion Of Consent To Sexual Activity For Persons With Mental Disabilities
Suzanne Doyle

The Sexual Rights Of Children And The Age Of Consent
Kieran Walsh

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8a: Thinking Sexual Ethics I
Chair: Suzanne Doyle

Toward a New Sexual Ethic: Re-thinking the Sex Offender
Elise Chenier

Disciplinary Relations/Sexual Relations
Chloë Taylor

Same-Gender Sex and the Common Good
Matthew F. Pierlott

Session 8b: Sexual Regulation
Chair: Jami  L Anderson

The Regulation of Sex in the Colonial Environment: the Case of Wakefieldian Otago
Sarah Carr

Sexual Exposure to and Transmission of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A Belgian Substantive Criminal Law Point of View
Bjorn Ketels

Child and Youth Sexualities, the Law, and the Regulatory Apparatus of Child Protection Policies in Canada in the Early 21st Century
Robert D. Teixeira

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Theories of Law, Sex and Ethics
Chair Kieran Walsh

Re-thinking Symbolic Order: Psychoanalysis Questioned by Queer Studies
Caterina Rea

Comprehending the Distinctively Sexual Nature of the Conduct
Jami  L Anderson

The Unspeakable
Donald E. Hall

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 10: Thinking Sexual Ethics II
Chair: Donald Hall

Sexual Ethics Beyond Consent
Tom Claes

Sexual Ethics and Sexual Literacy
Paul Reynolds

Then

Summary/Development Discussion
Led By Paul Reynolds

18.00
Conference Close