From September 19-21, the working group is organizing the international and interdisciplinary workshop“SEX EDUCATION: Subjectivities, Materialities, Differences” at JGU.

The aim of the workshop is to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discourse and critical reflection on the various dimensions of the relationship between sexuality and knowledge(transmission). Often the subject of ongoing heated and often morally charged social and political debates and an arena of the “sexual antinomies of late modernity” (Jackson/Scott 2004), sexual education is often perceived either as an instrument of indoctrination or as a necessary tool for sexual autonomy. Beyond such moralizing discourses, the workshop is interested in a perspective on sexuality as a cultural product of knowledge processes.

We are expecting speakers from eight countries (Germany, England, India, Israel, Austria, Scotland, Sweden, USA) and various disciplines as well as keynote speeches by Jack Halberstam (Columbia University, USA), Elisabeth Tuider (University of Kassel, Germany) and Nick Fox (University of Huddersfield, UK).

Unfortunately, the places for on-site participation are already full. It is possible to follow the presentations online via BigBlueButton. Please register informally with the workshop organization: sexed24@uni-mainz.de.