BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:111@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T170000 DTSTAMP:20230828T144708Z URL:https://sds.utoronto.ca/events/sex-ethics-symposium/ SUMMARY:Sex & Ethics Symposium DESCRIPTION:This symposium brings together authors of two of the most provo cative and exciting new books on sex and sexuality: Hatred of Sex by Tim Dean and Oliver Davis\, and Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk\, Race\, Trau matophilia by Avgi Saketopoulou.\n\nSex is hated as well as desired\, Oli ver Davis and Tim Dean contend\, because sexual intensity impedes coherent selfhood and undermines identity\, rendering us all a little more deplora ble than we might wish. Davis and Dean explore the consequences of this fo r queer studies\, attachment theory\, the #MeToo movement\, and “traumat ology."\n\nAvgi Saketopoulou\, calls attention to what traumatized subject s do with their pain and proposes that central to the transformational pos sibilities of trauma is a queer form of consent\, limit consent\, that is not about guarding the self but about risking experience.\n\nJoin us for a n afternoon of presentations\, a roundtable discussion\, and extended Q&am p\;A with our guest speakers.\n\nReserve your ticket on Eventbrite.\n\n&nb sp\;\n\nThis event is part of the Sex &\; Ethics Working Group\, organi zed by John Paul Ricco and hosted by the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies\, which is also the main sponsor of this symposium. Co-s ponsors: Department of Art History\, and the Centre for Comparative Litera ture. Additional supported provided by the Centre for Ethics\, and the Dep artment of Visual Studies (UTM).\n\nPresenter Bios\n\nOliver Davis is Pro fessor of French Studies at Warwick University\, UK\, and co-author\, with Tim Dean\, of Hatred of Sex (Nebraska\, 2022). His interdisciplinary rese arch spans queer theory\, Continental Philosophy and the ‘psychedelic hu manities\,' an emerging discipline: common to his interventions in each ar ea is an interest in political technologies. He is currently finishing a m onograph on the political implications of the psychedelic renaissance in p sychiatry\, which includes critical discussion of the way in which psyched elics promise relief from the symptomatic after-effects of trauma and migh t accordingly presage a world less obsessively structured around commodifi ed forms of traumatized identity.\n\nTim Dean is the James M. Benson Prof essor in English at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. His wor k in queer studies is distinguished by its focus on sex\, including an ong oing critique of the cultural and intellectual evasions of the darker aspe cts of sex. He is the author of Beyond Sexuality (2000)\, Unlimited Intima cy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (2009)\, and\, with Olive r Davis\, Hatred of Sex (2022). He has coedited Homosexuality and Psychoan alysis (2001)\, A Time for the Humanities (2008)\, and Porn Archives (2014 ).\n\nDr. Avgi Saketopoulou is a psychoanalyst on faculty at the NYU Post doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her work has receive d numerous awards including the Roughton and the Ruth Stein prizes. The Jo urnal of the American Psychoanalytic Association has twice bestowed her th eir best annual essay prize\, for her contributions on trans children (201 4) and anti-racist racism (2023). Avgi’s interview on relational psychoa nalysis is in the holdings of the Freud Museum\, Vienna. With Dr. Ann Pell egrini\, she is co-recipient of the first Tiresias Prize\; their award-win ning essay appears in their volume Gender Without Identity (Unconscious in Translation Press\, 2023). Her monograph\, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk \, Race\, Traumatophilia (NYU press\, 2023) traces the entwinements of sex uality with performance\, queer aesthetics\, and overwhelm\, and explores the ethics of sadism. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/37118 7117_742009847729468_2728540980790909155_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR