Unthinking Sex,
Imagining Asexuality Conference
Vancouver 2019
April 26, 2019
420 Strategy Room
SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue 580 West Hastings Street in Vancouver
8:30–10:00 am Coffee and light breakfast*
9:00–9:45 am Intro to Asexuality Workshop
Rianne Brown
Harley Guo
10:00–10:10 am Welcome Address
10:15–11:15 am Asexual Activisms Roundtable
CJ Deluzio Chasin (University of Windsor)
Justine Munich (SFU)
Cole Brown
Erica Mulder
11:30 am–12:30 pm Rethinking Science, Rethinking
A/sexuality Panel
Lori Brotto (UBC)
Kristina Gupta (Wake Forest University)
12:45–1:45 pm Lunch provided*
2:00–3:15 pm Five Years after Asexualities:
Feminist and Queer Perspectives
Discussion with M. Milks (Pace University)
KJ Cerankowski (Oberlin College)
Evelyn Elgie (UBC)
3:30–4:45 pm Critical Approaches to Race,
Erotics, and Asexuality Panel
June Scudeler (SFU)
Ianna Hawkins Owen (Williams College)
Kaiya Jacob (SFU)
Dinner on your own
7:30–9:30 pm Art Exhibit Night: Imagining
Asexuality: Making Asexual
Cultures and Archives
at Salon 20 in the basement level of SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue (580 West Hastings Street), co-curated by Lauren Jankowski and Heather Prost
with a cash bar available
April 27, 2019
420 Strategy Room
SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue 580 West Hastings Street in Vancouver
8:30–10:00 am Coffee and light breakfast*
9:00–9:45 am Intro to Asexuality Workshop
Debbie Mah
10:00–11:15 am Asian A/sexualities in
Conversation Panel
Day Wong (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Theresa Kenney (McMaster University)
Helen Hok-Sze Leung (SFU)
This panel is funded by the David Lam Centre at SFU.
11:30 am–12:30 pm Queer Approaches to Asexuality
Panel
Nicole Seymour (California State University, Fullerton)
Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University)
Cynthia Barounis (Washington University)
12:45–2:00 pm Lunch provided by the David Lam
Centre at SFU*
2:15–3:45 pm Feminist Approaches to
Asexualities Panel
Breanne Fahs (Arizona State University)
Anna Kurowicka (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University)
Ela Przybylo (SFU)
Dinner on your own
7:30–9:30 pm Community Event and Book
Celebration at historic LGBTQ2IA+ bookstore, Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium (1238 Davie St., Vancouver)
Julie Sondra Decker (The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality)
Angela Chen (ACE: Understanding Asexuality and Culture)
Lauren Jankowski (Shape Shifter Chronicles series)
Ela Przybylo (Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality)
Download PDF of Full Program!
*Please note that breakfast and lunch will be mostly vegan with gluten free options. If you have any allergies (such as to soy or nuts) please contact us and we will do our best to arrange a food option for you.