Register for the CRISSE Spring Seminar 12.5.2026

Critical Sexuality Studies Network CRISSE  Spring Seminar
Sexuality Research Across Disciplines
12.5.2026, 13:00–16:30

Arc A112 ARCANUM, Vatselankatu 2, University of Turku
The Zoom link will be sent to participants registered for the remote event
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PROGRAMME

13:00 Welcome 
Keynote: More Sex Please,  We’re Academics! The Landscape of Dating and Hookup App Studies
Prof. Ben Light (School of Health & Society, University of Salford)

14:00 Refreshments

14:20 Presentations I

Doing Fieldwork on Non-Monogamies
J. Tuomas Harviainen (Information Studies and Interactive Media, Tampere University)

“I Felt Like I Was Doing Something Wrong”: A Multi-Method Inquiry on Emotional Circulation Between Cultural and (Inter)personal Sexual Scripts of Young People’s Porn Consumption
Leontine Hellemans(Communication Sciences, Ghent University)

Semiotics of Power in the Sexual Field
Rosaria Murolo (Department of History and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts of Naples)

Afterlives of Fascist Sexual Politics: Pleasure, Appetite, and the Edible Body
Sveva Crisafulli (OPENSPACE Programme, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia)

15:20 Refreshments

15:40 Presentations II

Väitöskirjatutkimus queer-halun ja -seksin estetiikasta suomalaisessa elokuvassa
Henna Seppälä (Sukupuolen, kulttuurin ja yhteiskunnan tutkimuksen tohtoriohjelma, Helsingin yliopisto)

Seksuaalisesti eksplisiittinen materiaali ja kriittisen medialukutaidon tarve koulujen seksuaalikasvatusta haastamassa – asiantuntijoiden ja opettajaopiskelijoiden näkemyksiä
Tinja Sikanen (Kasvatustiede, Helsingin yliopisto)

Monitieteinen suostumustutkimus Consent Spectrum -hankkeessa
Sanna Spišák, Maria Vihlman & Minttu Viini (Helsinki Inequality Initiative – INEQ, Helsingin yliopisto)

The seminar will provide space for discussion and collaborative planning. Welcome!

About Prof. Ben Light

I am Professor of Digital Society and Lead, in the Centre for Research on Inclusive Society. I research our experiences of digital media focusing on (non)consumption, gender, sexuality and digital methods. I draw on Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies, and Science and Technology Studies in my work, and am part of the global Internet Studies community. I am author (with Prof. Susanna Paasonen and Prof. Kylie Jarrett) of Not Safe for Work: Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media (2019 MIT Press) and Disconnecting with Social Networking Sites (Palgrave 2014). My current book project, (with Dr Lisa Garwood-Cross and Dr Eileen Wattam, University of Salford), is Dating and Hookup Apps, (Polity Press, Digital Media and Society Series). I am associate editor at New Media and Society and Social Media + Society, am principal investigator of the UK Online Dating Lives Project and previously led the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council funded COVID Sex Lives Project. 

University of Salford: https://salford-repository.worktribe.com/person/1169307/ben-light

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ben-Light

Google Scholar: https://rebrand.ly/benlight

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