[ecrea] CFP: 3rd Sexual Cultures Conference: PLAY

3rd Sexual Cultures Conference: PLAY

University of Turku

28-29 May, 2019

Confirmed keynote speakers: Tom Apperley (University of Tampere), Kane 
Race (University of Sydney) & Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn University)

The 3rd Sexual Cultures Conference focuses on the notion of play, 
understood as autotelic practices of pleasure where the enchantment of 
the activity is an end in itself. As the game studies scholar Miquel 
Sicart nevertheless notes, the pleasures of play can be ambivalent 
indeed: “Play is not necessarily fun. It is pleasurable, but the 
pleasures it creates are not always submissive to enjoyment, happiness, 
or positive traits. Play can be pleasurable when it hurts, offends, 
challenges us and teases us, and even when we are not playing. Let’s not 
talk about play as fun but as pleasurable, opening us to the immense 
variations of pleasure in this world.”

Building on this understanding of play, as well as sex, as variations of 
pleasure, the conference sets out to ask what happens if we consider 
sexual representation, networked forms of connecting and relating, or 
the experimentation with sexual likes though this prism? Indeed, what 
might studies of sexual cultures foregrounding the complexity and 
centrality of pleasure, look like? This is what we invite you to think 
with us.

Possible themes and topics include, but are not limited to examinations 
of play and playfulness in relation to:

* hook-up cultures
* pornography
* sex education
* sex and gaming
* sexting
* sexual histories
* kink cultures
* sexual identifications
* leisure sex
* intimacy
* sexual harassment

The conference will have a registration fee of 150€ inclusive of coffees 
and conference dinner. To propose a paper, please send a 300-word 
abstract and short bio (max. 100 words) to 
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by January 31, 2019. Registrations will be made available in late 
February, 2019. For any practical info, please contact conference 
services (info /at/ aboaservices.fi). On issues connected to the academic 
programme, please contact program chair Susanna Paasonen at (suspaa /at/ utu.fi).

The conference is jointly organized by the Academy of Finland research 
project, Sexuality and Play in Media Culture, The Department of Media 
Studies and IIPC, the International Institute for Popular Culture, at 
the University of Turku.

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