Behind The Sex Scene: online seminars
To mark the publication of The Sex Scene: Space, Place, Industry (edited by Darren Kerr and Donna Peberdy), we’re bringing together contributors from across the collection for a series of online seminars exploring the critical and cultural value of the sex scene.
From censorship and regulation to technology, commodification and collective viewing, the book’s contributors work across film, television, media, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, and queer theory, covering ground from hardcore pornography and cult cinema to Egyptian and Indian popular film, Japanese tantai films, and queer-feminist DIY porn from Finland.
The first of two volumes, The Sex Scene: Space, Place, Industry features essays by Samar Abdel-Rahman, Peter Alilunas, Katie Arthur, Thomas Baudinette, Daniel Cardoso, Oliver Carter, Lynn Comella, Farrah Freibert, Alexandra Hambleton, Kylie Harris, Laurence Kent, Darren Kerr, Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Susanna Paasonen, Donna Peberdy and Rebecca Saunders,
The seminar series launches September 2026. Dates will be announced soon.
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PAST EVENTS:
Roundtable: SCREENING Sex PEDAGOGIES & TEACHING
TUESDAY 21st OCTOBER 2025 6-7pm UK / MS TEAMS (Register HERE)
This international, cross-institutional roundtable and forum will explore pedagogical practices and challenges relating to teaching sex on screen in Higher Education. MORE DETAILS AND REGISTER HERE.
Roundtable: Sex and the Hollywood Production Code
Monday 14th July 2025 6-7pm GMT / MS TEAMS
Tom Brown, Kathrina Glitre, Martha Shearer and Adam Vaughan discuss
what Hollywood could show and infer of human sexuality during the Code Era. MORE DETAILS AND REGISTER HERE.
In Conversation: Screening Sex Collaboratively
TUESDAY 18th MARCH 2025 6-7pm UK / MS TEAMS
Dr Donna Peberdy (Southampton Solent University, UK) and Professor Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) in conversation about the valuable role informal and formal collaborations have played in their research relating to sex on screen.
Donna and Tanya will share a short overview of their collaborative projects before responding to each other’s questions about how collaborations and partnerships were formed, how they shaped and were shaped by their research, and benefits and challenges they encountered. The conversation will then be opened up for questions from attendees.
Speaker bios
Tanya Horeck is a Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University. Tanya has recently completed a British Academy funded study on intimacy coordinators in the UK context (with Susan Berridge, University of Stirling), which explored how televisual representations of sex and consent have changed following the emergence of intimacy coordination post #MeToo. In another collaborative project (with Jessica Ringrose and Kaitlynn Mendes), Tanya has produced sexual violence prevention workshops for schools and developed guidance for educators regarding how to deal with image-based sexual abuse and technology-facilitated gender-based violence.
Donna Peberdy is Associate Professor of Performance, Sex and Gender in the Department of Film and Media and Research Lead for Media, Culture and the Arts at Southampton Solent University. Donna’s current project Screening Sexual Violence, funded through the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship scheme, explores screen representations of sexual violence and how film can be used as a tool for education, activism and social change. Through collaborations with film initiative 16 Days 16 Films, filmmakers, charities and schools, Donna has developed an online resource to inspire, support and inform conversations about sexual violence and gender-based violence.
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