Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network

PECANS Workshop 2010: Transgressing Power(s): an interdisciplinary postgraduate & early career scholars conference in the broad area of law, gender and sexuality

Thursday 29 – Friday 30th April 2010 @ Westminster University

Registration forms are available on the PECANS Website

Draft Programme:

Day 1: Thursday 29 April

9:45am Coffee, Registration and Introductions

10:15 – 11:15: Session 1 - 'Sex Wars: The Next Generation: Debating “Johns” and “Jailbait” in Dominant Feminist, Cultural and Socio-legal Discourses'
With: Lara Karaian (Carleton University, Canada) and Ummni Khan (Carleton University, Canada)
11:15 – 11:30am: Morning Break
11:30 – 1:00pm Session 2 – Gender, Sexuality and Power
Chair: Sarah Keenan (University of Kent) Linnéa Wegerstad (Lund University, Sweden): ‘The Flasher Girl and Criminal Law: A Tentative analysis on feminist interventions in pornography and swim halls’
Olesya Meskina (Basel University, Switzerland): ‘Law and Ethical Perceptions of Women and Children in the Swiss and Russian Society’
Kerry Chamberlain (Keele University): ‘”Hardened Offenders” and “Good Time” Girls: Regulating the ‘Professional’ and ‘Amateur’
Prostitute in
Interwar Liverpool’
1:00 – 2:00pm: Lunch Break
2:00pm – 3:00pm: Session 3 – Sexuality, Power and Rights
Chair: Adam Jowett (Aston University)
Kay Lalor (University of Westminster): ‘Defining Gay Rights: Sexual Orientation as a human rights issue’
Arturo Sanchez-Garcia (University of Kent/SOAS): ‘Micro-Politics and Sexual Rights in Latin America’
3:00-3:30 pm Coffee Break
3.30 – 5:30pm Session 4: Combining Activism and Academic Work
Chair: Sameena Dalwai (Keele University)

Day 2: Friday 30 April

9:30 – 11:00am: Session 1 - PECANS Open Committee Meeting

11:00 – 11:15am: Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45pm: Session 2 – Transgression and Resistance
Chair: Donatella Alessandrini (University of Kent) Mitchell Travis (Keele University): ‘The Sound of One Hand Clapping:
Elective amputation as a site of resistance’
Pravin Jeyaraj (University of Westminster): ‘The Hegelian master/slave dialectic in environmental law and policy’
Sameena Dalwai (Keele University): ‘Locations of power in the law making
process: case study of the legal ban on bar dancing in Bombay’
12:45 – 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30 - 3:00pm Session 3 - Roundtable Discussion ‘Past, Present and Future in Feminist Legal Studies’
Chair: Stacy Douglas (University of Kent).
3:00pm –3:15pm: Coffee Break
3:15pm – 4:45pm: Session 4 - An Introduction to Research Funding for Early Career Scholars
Chair: Rosie Harding (Keele University)
5:00pm: CentreLGS Annual Lecture and Reception