1st Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies

Conference Locations

• B Tower

  The main edifice, to the right of the entrance.

  • Auditorium 1
    The main auditorium, on the 1st floor.
  • T09
  • T10
  • T11
  • T12

Conference Schedule

2015-09-24

06:00 PM

• Pre-Launch Party: 

  Pre-Lauch party

  Please find all information on our website, HERE

   

  With the suport and collaboration of UMAR.

2015-09-25

09:30 AM

• Registration opens: Please check yourself in at the Conference desk.

10:30 AM

• Opening Ceremony: 
  • Luís Baptista (FCSH-UNL)
  • Paula Marques (Lisbon City Hall)
  • Ana Cristina Santos (INTIMATE / CES / UC)
  • Manuel Lisboa (CICS.NOVA / FCSH-UNL)

11:00 AM

• First Keynote Session: Meg John Barker & Ana Cristina Santos: 

  «Non/monogamies: Rewriting the Rules», Meg John Barker

  «Normalizing the slut? Relational citizenship, care and the daily management of intimacy», Ana Cristina Santos

  
  

02:30 PM

• Lisa Poole, "Poly Politics": Are We Normal Yet?
  Room: T10
• Boka En, We are family? Negotiating intimate interpersonal relationships in social research
  Room: T12
• Dawn Marie Davidson, A discussion of Gender, Labels, and NMCI
  Room: T10
• Pepper Mint, The Acceptibility Tactics of Polyamory
  Room: T10
• Leehee Rothschild, Compulsory Monogamy and the Polyamorous Existence
  Room: T11
• Monica B Pearl, Kinship, Conversation, and Crisis: AIDS and the Persistence of Queer Community
  Room: T12
• Karin Wandrei, Polyamory, Lesbianism and Sexual Fluidity: Polyamory as a Choice for Lesbian-Identified Women Exploring Sexual Relationships with Men
  Room: T11
• Maria Silvério, Justyna Sempruch, Joanna Iwanowska, Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, Polyamory, Swinging, and New Forms of Family: Transgressive Subjectivities, Bonds of Love, Care, and Desire
  Room: T09
• Thomas Hendriks, Fucking kinship: procreation, marriage and queer desire in urban Congo
  Room: T12

04:30 PM

• Fernanda Branco Belizario, Brazilian travestis as queer postcolonial subject: theoretical insights on intimacy and border thinking
  Room: T12
• Mercedes Pöll, Defining “sex” in relationships without
  Room: T10
• Rita Alcaire, Absence of sexual attraction as counter-hegemonic: the politics of asexuality
  Room: T10
• Antonio Cerdeira Pilão, From Polygyny to Polyamory: an Anthropological Study on Non-Monogamy in Brazil
  Room: T12
• Hadas Marion Goldman, Changing The Game to Break the Rules- Creating Radical Financial Structures as a Basis for Liberating Relationships
  Room: T11
• Dardo Lorenzo Bornia Junior, Views on jealousy from non-monogamous people lived experiences and emotionalities in southern Brazil
  Room: T12
• Juliette Siegfried, Victoria Rosa, Folami Bayode, Why Polyamory? Panel discussion and Q & A
  Room: T09
• Patricia Macleod, The Asexual Slut: When compulsory monogamy meets compulsory sexuality
  Room: T10
• Cornelia Schadler, Collective parenthood: Poly networks and parenting practices
  Room: T11
• Pierre-Yves Wauthier, Social changes and the transformations of kinship practices. An ethnographic approach of non-monogamous family in contemporary French speaking Europe.
  Room: T11

06:30 PM

• Jessica Joan Kean, Race, class and marginal intimacies in Australian public culture
  Room: T12
• Ana C Pires, Intersectional Me: A Personal Reflection on Intersectionality through Non-monogamy
  Room: T12
• Paula Sánchez Perera, Alternating gender roles in sex work
  Room: T10
• Mara Clemente, Minors' Prostitution Experiences in the Dominican Republic. 
Exploitation, Work and Game.
  Room: T10
• David Hampson, This, and other intimacies: a Psychosexological review of monogamy and its distractions.
  Room: T11
• Manja Visschedijk, Dodging dominant, de-humanising narratives: In life and in therapy.
  Room: T11
• Chun Yang, 90-min Intimacy: the Consumption of Intimacy in Modern Society
  Room: T11
• Alexis Bartlow, Healing Together: Emotional Intimacy in Modern Indoor Sex Work
  Room: T10
• Edward Manuel Fernandes, Jessica Wood, We do It Our Way! The Swinging Paradigm: Evaluating a possible paradigm change in the emotionally monogamous relationships.
  Room: T09

2015-09-26

09:00 AM

• Second Keynote Session: Brigitte Vasallo & Nathan Rambukkana: «Dismantling monogamy, far beyond the exclusivity issue», Brigitte Vasallo
  «Unmappable Subjects: Intimacy, Privilege and Polygamous Women in Canadian Public Sphere Discourse», Nathan Rambukkana

11:30 AM

• Rita Alcaire, Ménage à moi – A study on the representation of masturbation on mainstream television and film
  Room: T11
• Pepper Mint, The Conceptual Enforcement of Compulsory Monogamy
  Room: T10
• Jessica Joan Kean, Meaning and mononormativity: incoherence, flexibility and relationship ‘significance’
  Room: T10
• Nataša Pivec, “Three (is not a crowd)”: a critical analysis of Tom Tykwer's polyamorous film Three
  Room: T11
• Katarzyna Grunt-Mejer, Weronika Chańska, Psychologization and pathologization of polyamory in Polish media
  Room: T11
• Victoria Rosa Sturley, Folami Bayode, Interactive Workshop: Negotiation skills (dilemmas, tools, and strategies)
  Room: T09
• Megan Hurson, Politics of Loving Many: The Role of Alternative Media in Polyamory Discourses
  Room: T11
• Mona Röhm, Rules of the game in monogamous relationships
  Room: T10
• Nikò Antalffy, Polyamorous lives in Australia and the US
  Room: T12
• Sina Muscarina, Polyamory. Loving More than One. A biographical portrait of non-monogamous relationship cultures
  Room: T12

02:30 PM

• Aoife Sadlier, ‘I’m not that bisexual. I’m the other one.’ Queering straightness on match.com.
  Room: T12
• Artyom Anikin, Historical European Non-Monogamies
  Room: T11
• Teresa Furtado, Challenging the heterosexist dichotomist logic: bestiality in Carolee Schneemann and Joanna Rytel video pieces
  Room: T10
• Giazú Enciso, Not a recipe, but conditions of possibility for polyamory healthy practices: From feminist to beyond
  Room: T11
• Nollie Joy Nahrung, Loving de/compositions: Non-monogamous love collages
  Room: T10
• Agnese Sile, Aine Larkin, Relationality and intimacy in Lisa Lindvay’s photographic series Hold Together
  Room: T10
• Hannah Darvill, Meg-John Barker, Train-the-trainer workshop: Consensual relationships
  Room: T09
• EJE KIM, “Ancient Future” for feminists: New imaginations on marriage from Minangkabau matrilineal society in Sumatra, Indonesia
  Room: T11
• Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Bi Men by Women: women in relationships with bisexual men
  Room: T12
• Ryan Scoats, “I don’t mind watching him cum”: Heterosexual Men, Threesomes, and the Erosion of the One-Time Rule of Homosexuality
  Room: T12

04:30 PM

• Isabelle Broué, « Lutine », a 96 minutes-long docu-comedy on Polyamory, by Isabelle Broué
  Room: Auditorium 1
• Andreu Ballús Santacana, Love after scarcity
  Room: T11
• Fábio Mariano Borges, Polyamory: accident or purpose? The process of discovery of polyamorous identity
  Room: T12
• Michel Raab, Poly-Care between aspiration and reality
  Room: T12
• Giorgia Lorenzetti, Polyamory: a qualitative analysis of an emergent social phenomenon
  Room: T11
• Jingshu Zhu, Non-Monogamous Experiences in Chinese Queer Comrades’ Marital Life
  Room: T10
• Agata Stasińska, Joanna Mizielińska, Always Already (Non)Monogamous and (Con)Fused? – Queer Intimacy in Poland
  Room: T10
• Victoria Rosa, Considerations When Choosing an Open Relationship Style
  Room: T12
• Edward Manuel Fernandes, George Gaither, An Evaluation of the STI Profiles and safe Sex Practices of a Sample of Swingers
  Room: T10

06:30 PM

• Book Launch Session: 

  Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

  • Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010 // Love You Two, Sydney: Random House, 2008

  Maria Silvério

  • Swing: Eu, Tu… Eles, Lisboa: Chiado Editora, 2014

  Marlene Wasserman

  • Cyber Infidelity: The New Seduction, Human & Rosseau, 2015

  Nathan Rambukkana

  • Fraught Intimacies: Non/Monogamy in the Public Sphere, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015

2015-09-27

09:00 AM

• Third Keynote Session: Pepper Mint & Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli: 

  «Who Is Not Here? Addressing Power and Diversity in Research and Organizing», Pepper Mint

  «Poly and MOREs go to the Movies: Analysing Polyamorous and Mixed-Orientation Relationship Representations in film», Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

11:30 AM

• Ana Cristina Santos, Beatrice Gusmano, Tatiana Motterle, Pablo Perez Navarro, Luciana Moreira, INTIMATE Panel: reframing coupledom through same-sex relational citizenship in Southern Europe
  Room: Auditorium 1
• Marta Mazanek, Ways of living Polyamory
  Room: T10
• Juliette Siegfried, Living in a Successful Poly Family
  Room: T10
• Lisa Poole, Power and Privilege: Consent and Abuse in Polyamorous Relationships and Communities
  Room: T12
• daniela danna, What is a family? Sexual and dependency ties in law and utopia
  Room: T12
• Janet Bennion, Is Polygamy the Next Marital Rights Issue?
  Room: T12

02:30 PM

• Francisco Hertel Maiochi, Pornography and Psychoanalysis
  Room: T10
• Marlene Wasserman, Cyber Infidelity: The New Seduction
  Room: T12
• Andrea García-Santesmases, Yes, we fuck! documentary: for a queer-crip sexuality
  Room: T10
• Inês Ribeiro, Daniel Santos Cardoso, At the crossroads of deviance: Gendered experiences of polyamorous women
  Room: T11
• Darja Lyzenko, The construction of consensually non-monogamous different-sex relationships in Lithuania
  Room: T11
• Shahin Payam, Panteá Farvid, Deborah Payne, 'Infidelity', 'cheating' or a 'bit on the side'? Examining constructions of contemporary western experiences of extra-relational sexual involvement.
  Room: T12
• Myrte Esther Hamburg, No Flirting Allowed! The Association between Relationship Norms and Relationship Satisfaction
  Room: T12
• Klit Ters, Sci-Fi Cruising: alternative intimacies through hybrid spaces
  Room: T09
• Ann Antidote, There are Vulvae around if you choose to see
  Room: T10

04:30 PM

• Linda Kirkman, Contemporary intimacy research and associated activism: Researching and talking about baby boomers in friends-with-benefits relationships in Australia.
  Room: T10
• KIM & DAVID, The Love Story of KIM & DAVID - Part 4: Communion
  Room: T11
• Dawn Marie Davidson, KISSable Agreements: Creating Empowering Relationship Structures for NMCI
  Room: T09
• Mad Kate, POLY-HOME-FULL
  Room: T11
• Redfern Jon Barrett, The Future Loves a Threesome: Polyamory and the Radical Potential of Science Fiction
  Room: T12
• Maria Silva e Silvério, Swinging in Portugal: reflections on sexual non-monogamy and emotional monogamy among couples
  Room: T10
• Edward Manuel Fernandes, I do it my way: The relationship between self-determination and swinging satisfaction
  Room: T10
• John Button, Non-conventional relationship choices for the over-sixties
  Room: T12

06:30 PM

• Patrícia Monteiro Pascoal, Daniel Santos Cardoso, Rui Henriques, Sexual Satisfaction and Distress in Sexual Functioning in a Sample of the BDSM Community: A Comparison Study Between BDSM and Non-BDSM Contexts
  Room: T10
• Rita Alcaire, The Minority Report: The asexual community discusses its struggle to find acceptance
  Room: T10
• Helena Lüdert, Peace Research Village Tamera Model
  Room: T11
• Ofer Fein, Nave Rappaport, Sexual Jealousy and Satisfaction with Sexual Agreements among Israeli Gay Male Couples
  Room: T09
• Joseph De Lappe, “Asexy and we know it”: The emergence of asexual activism as a contemporary sexual and gender social movement.
  Room: T10
• Leehee Rothschild, Polyamory in Israel
  Room: T11
• Peter Hörz, “When I buy a round of drinks for others in a bar, a dozen attractive and successful men flatter me... But if they knew how I earned the money for the drinks, they would most likely regard me as scum”. Some ethnographic notes on the cosmobile gay escort
  Room: T09
• Roos Reijbroek, Brick by Brick; Debates and practicalities you encounter when building a non-monogamous community.
  Room: T11