FULL PROGRAM
DAY ONE - OCTOBER 5th
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DAY ONE - OCTOBER 5th *
| Time | Stream 1 - PINK | Stream 2 - GREEN | ||
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| 6.30am ET 11.30am BST 12.30pm CEST |
Opening with Julia Shaw |
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| 7am ET 12pm BST 1pm CEST |
Panel - Invisibility and Visibility Chair: Ellen Davenport-Pleasance |
- Making the Invisible Visible: Experiences of Identity (In)Visible in Bi+sexual Individuals in Germany - Rahel Korinth (she/her), Sonja Bröning (she/her), Urszula Martyniuk (she/her) - Bisexual Erasure, Invisibility and Discourse Production: The UN Human Rights Committee’s Insistence on Mononormativity- Laura Grob (she/they) - How bi-erasure limits queer studies - and how we can overcome it - Alex Haydn-Williams (they/them), Sieve Bonaiuti (they/them) - Existent But Invisible: Bisexuality, Dichotomy and (Invisible) Stigma in Indonesia - Wisnu Adihartono (he/him) - Why Would French Youth Present as Bisexual? - Theo Ferroni (they/them) |
Panel- Bisexuality+ on the Screen and in your earbuds Chair: Lucia Tralli |
- I'm Bi, Actually: Combatting Bisexual Erasure and the Impact of Representation in Netflix's Heartstoppe r- Meret Jael Koch (she/her) - Euphoria in the Age of Pleasure: Bi+ Visibility, Futurism, and Joy in the Performances of Janelle Monae and Loreen - Sam Murray (he/him) - Bisexuality, the Nation, and the “Crisis of Masculinity” in Russian Audio-Visual Culture - Rowan Dowling (they/she)- - Invisi(Bi)ly Present: A Cultural Analysis of Three M-Spec Female Characters in Bollywood - Khushi Bajaj (she/her)- |
| 8am ET 1pm BST 2pm CEST |
Keynote Chair: Aurelio Castro |
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli | ||
| 9.15am ET 2.15pm BST 3.15pm CEST |
Break | |||
| 10am ET 3pm BST 4pm CEST |
Panel - Bisexual+ Identities and visibility Chair: Taralyn Parr |
- Bicurious? No, bisexual! (Bikuriožna? Ne, biseksualna! )- Marinella Matejcic (she/her) - From Successful Visibility to Unwanted Exposure: Deconstructing the Visibility Binary to Expand Understandings of Bisexual Visibility - Marisa Tangeman (she/her) - The Intersections of Gender and Sexuality Among Bi+ Women in Armenia - Aida Marukyan (she) - Exploring the socio-semiotics of dress: what indexing identity looks like for bisexual young adults - Pauline Decorps (she/her) |
Panel - Bisexuality+ and the Arts Chair: Gabryelle Iaconetti |
- Telling Queer Stories with Site Based Theatre - Matthew Bobzien (he/they) - Bisexual Culture: An analysis of Bisexual literature reflecting the plurality of bisexual lives - Caroline Duggan (they/them) - Bi+ representations in pop media: Japan as a case study - Camil Valerio Ristè (he/him), Aurelio Castro (he/any pronouns) - Between Parasocial Activism and Pedagogy: Intersectional Perspectives in Presenting Bi+ Characters in Theatre for a Young Public in Germany - Alice Rugai (prefers to use name, but any pronoun is fine) |
| 11am ET 4pm BST 5pm CEST |
Comedy Introduction: Derek Sollberger |
Million Dollar Maybe by Robyn Perkins (she/her) | ||
| 11.30am ET 4.30pm BST 5.30pm CEST |
Panel- Bi+ Communities and Spaces Chair: Gabryelle Iaconetti |
- Bisexuality in Social Media Context: Mapping Connections Between the Communities Surrounding R/Bisexuality on Reddit - James Cook (he/him) - Creating a Bi+ Therapy Garden & Community Center - Carley Arnold (she/her) - Searching for Fakers: Creating Hierarchies In Online Bisexual Space Using Inclusionist and Exclusionist Ideologies - Sara Schmieder (she/they) - The erasure of male bisexuality within the LGBTI+ community - Marlon Santos (he/him) |
Workshop Chair: Taralyn Parr |
A Foot In Both Worlds: An Expressive Arts Exploration of Bisexual Experience - Jamie Marich (she/they) |
| 12.30 ET 5.30 BST 6.30 CEST |
Break | |||
| 12.45 ET 5.45 BST 6.45 CEST |
Roundtable - Bi+ Masculinities Chair: Derek Sollberger |
Sam Lawton-Westerland (he/him) Rob Cohen (he/him) Aurelio Castro (he/him) |
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| 1.30 ET 6.30 BST 7.30 CEST |
Closing remarks | Bisexual+ Research Group Leadership Team |
DAY TWO - OCTOBER 6th
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DAY TWO - OCTOBER 6th *
| Time | Stream 1 - PINK | Stream 2 - GREEN | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.30am ET 12.30pm BST 1.30pm CEST |
Opening | |||
| 8am ET 1pm BST 2pm CEST |
Panel - Bi+ Masculinities Chair: Aurelio Castro |
- Bisexual father families: partners' and children's perspectives on bisexuality and family life - Maisie Matthews (she/her) - Bisexual+ Men, Discretion, and the Heteropatriarchy - Corey Tatz (he/him) - Bisexual Transgender Men in Queer Spaces: Navigating Identity, Relationships, and the Fight for Reproductive Rights - Alexander Danardanu (he/him) - Bi+ Men’s Digital Life Writing: Lived Experiences and Cultural Imaginaries - Mateusz Miesiac (he/him) |
Panel- Bi+ Communities, Spaces and Social Support Chair: Lucia Tralli |
- A call to bi asylum inclusion in LGBTQ asylum support communities and bi communities - Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh (they/them) - The Beach as a Queer Setting: Analysis of a Case Study from Italian Contemporary Cinema - María Emilia Muñoz (she/her) - Social Support and Mental Health in Brazilian Bisexual Women - Luiza Servino (she/her/ela/dela), Nicholas Robin (he/him), Vitória Pigatto (she/her), Thais Arnoud (she/her), Luísa Habigzang (she/her) - The Everyday Affective Geography of Bisexual Men of India through the Intersectionality of Caste - Victor Banerjee (he/him) |
| 9am ET 2pm BST 3pm CEST |
Meditation Introduction: Elen Davenport-Pleasance |
Oli Lipski (she/her) | ||
| 9.15am ET 2.15pm BST 3.15pm CEST |
Keynote Chair: Gabryelle Iaconetti |
Mel Reeve | ||
| 10am ET 3pm BST 4pm CEST |
Break | |||
| 11am ET 4pm BST 5pm CEST |
Panel – Activism Chair: Aurelio Castro |
- Italian bi+ politics beyond visibility: narrating the activism and research through a book - Aurelio Castro (he/any pronouns) Queerness and climate activism: using illustration to construct playful spaces - Devon Tipping (she/they) - Introducing the Bisexual Killjoy: The Revolutionary in You - Bailey Merlin (she/her), Lynn Rios Rivera (they/them) |
Panel - Bi+ Arts Chair: Lucia Tralli |
- From Binegativity to Identity Affirmation: Exploring the Bisexual Woman Identity Through a Heuristic Self-Study Utilizing Weaving - Kaylie Hatos (she/her) - Does the term “sapphic” make bisexuality among women more visible? - Soraya Cipolla (she/her) - Images of bisexual women in Japan: Mainstream media, YouTube and Scholarly Discourse - Camila Neira (she/her) - Loving Them Both: Colin MacInnes and the Complexity of Bisexuality - Kim Kemmis (he/him) |
| 12pm ET 5pm BST 6pm CEST |
Panel- Minority Stress and Mental Health Chair: Ellen Davenport-Pleasance |
- Biphobia as a Distinct Form of Minority Stress - Noam Mizrahi (she/they) - Bi & Borderline: An Exploration Into The Experiences of Bi+ Women & Femmes with Borderline Personality Disorder - Laura Clarke (she/they) - Bisexuals in Psychotherapy: "The Bi Cure", Experiences of Discrimination and Pathologization - Felipe Damacena (he/him), Luís Lima (he/him) - Interventions to Reduce Prejudice Against Bisexual People and Bisexuality: A Systematic Review - Eric Manalastas (he/él), Isabel Benjamin (she), Helena Blumenau (she), Em Shea (she/they), Brian A. Feinstein (he) |
Panel – Bi+ History and Archives Chair: Gabryelle Iaconetti |
- The absence of female bisexuality in mediaeval and early modern history- Anna-Lea Gisela Krampe (she/her) - BiArchivio : an Italian Bisexual, Pansexual and Non-Monosexual Archive - Tommaso Mori (they/he/she) Bisexual voices in early French homosexual movement : bisexual presence and invisibility in the Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire (1971-1973) - Wohosheni (she/her) Greetings from the Archive: Bi+ Theorizing in Germany in the 90s - Samu-elle Striewski (they/them) |
| 1pm ET 6pm BST 7pm CEST |
Break | |||
| 1.30pm ET 6.30pm BST 7.30pm CEST |
Panel- Interdisciplinary Approaches Chair: Derek Sollberg |
- Bisexual Villain: Navigating Identity and Resilience through Poetry - Ross Victory (he/him) - “I always had a bit of bisexual in me, I just didn’t know it”: Exploring sexual identity development using the Klein Grid in gay/lesbian and bisexual adults in Southern Chile - Ligia Orellana (she/her), Abner Silva (he/him), Tatiana Alarcón (she/her) - Which Best Identifies You? Deconstructing Researchers’ Decisions on Sexual Identity Categories and Labels in Bi+ College Student Scholarship - Steve Lemerand (he/him), Kaity Prieto (she/her), Antonio Duran (he/him/él) - Full Circle - a coming out story - Irina Latis (she/her) - Valid (Bio)Diversity - Ale Garin-Fernandez (they/he) - Bisexual Studies in Dialogue with Continental Philosophy - Miguel Obradors-Campos (he/his) |
Panel- Relationships and Intimate Partner Violence Chair: Taralyn Parr |
- Lowering Intimate Partner Violence Against Bisexual Women: The Tools We Have and the Tools We Need - Amber Mclaughlin (she/her/he/him) - Bi-visibility and Bi-positivity within Monogamous Romantic Relationships - Lila Webb (she/her), Susan Boon (she/her) - Intimate Partner Violence, Biphobia and Mental Health: Bisexual Women's Experiences from Brazil and Italy - Thaís Arnoud (she/her), Valeria Bruno (she/her), Clarissa Freitas (she/her), Jessica Pistella (she/her), Roberto Baiocco (he/his), Luísa Habigzang (she/her) - Narratives of Bi+ experiences through Zulu marriage rituals - Mpumelelo Zamokuhle Zulu (He/Him/They/Them) |
| 3pm ET 8pm BST 9pm CEST |
Poetry and Closing |
Poetry Reading by 2024 Lambda Award Winner in Outstanding Bisexual Poetry - Danielle Cadena Deulen (she/her) Robyn Ochs Closing remarks by the Bisexual+ Research Group Leadership Team |
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