FULL PROGRAM
DAY ONE - OCTOBER 4th
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DAY ONE - OCTOBER 4th *
| Time | Panel & Host | Presentations & Presenters |
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6.15am ET 11.15am BST 12.15pm CEST |
Opening - The Bisexual+ Research Group Leadership Team |
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| 6.45am ET 11.45pm BST 12.45pm CEST |
Panel: Bi+ lives /1 Host: Ellen Davenport-Plesance |
* The sexual health and HIV experiences of Australian bi+ people: Findings from the Bi+ Sexual Health and HIV (BiSHH) study 2024-25 by Bella Bushby
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7.45am ET 12.45pm BST 1.45pm CEST |
Panel: History Host: Gabryelle Iaconetti |
*Deception, negligence, drunkenness & illness – excuses used by homosexual and bisexual defendants in pre-modern moral offence proceedings (15th to 17th century) by Anna-Lea Gisela Krampe
*Renildo Case: Violence, Politics, and the Production of Memory in Alagoas by Jinx Vilhas
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8.45am ET 1.45pm BST 2.45pm CEST |
! 30 MINUTES BREAK ! |
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9.15 ET 2.15 BST 3.15 CEST |
Workshop Host: Lucia Tralli |
Teaching Bi+ Cinema, Literature, and Other Media by Soraya Cipolla |
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9.45am ET 2.45pm BST 3.45pm CEST |
Workshop Host: Aurelio Castro |
Italian activism network by RABBIT: Rete Attivismo Bisessuale+ Italiana |
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10.15am ET 3.15pm BST 4.15pm CEST |
Panel: Bi+ Lives /2 Host: Ellen Davenport-Plesance |
*Intimate Partner Violence and Bisexual+ Women by Chelsie Holmes
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11.15am ET 4.15pm BST 5.15pm CEST |
! 15 MINUTES BREAK ! | |
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11.30am ET 4.30pm BST 5.30pm CEST |
Workshop Host: Derek Sollberger |
When Pride isn’t working. Tools for Bi+ People Who Still Don’t Feel Valid by Floralie Resa |
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12pm ET 5pm BST 6pm CEST |
Panel: Bi+ Books Host: Noam Mizrahi |
*Step Bi Step: Navigating teenage bi+ identities by Laura Clarke
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12.30pm ET 5.30pm BST 6.30pm CEST |
Panel: Bisexual Research in Brazil Host: Aurelio Castro |
Bisexual Research in Brazil by Nanda Rossi, Jamilie Souza, Inácio Saldanha, Jinx Vilhas, Elisangela de Sá and Felipe Carvalho Damacena |
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1.15 pm ET 6.15 pm BST 7.15 pm CEST |
Day 1 Closing and Poetry Reading |
Bipotential: A Poetry Reading by Audrey T. Carroll |
DAY TWO - OCTOBER 5th
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DAY TWO - OCTOBER 5th *
| Time | Stream 1 - PINK | Stream 2 - GREEN | ||
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| 7.30am ET 12.30pm BST 1.30pm CEST |
Opening | |||
| 8am ET 1pm BST 2pm CEST |
Panel - Bi+ Masculinities Chair: Aurelio Castro |
- Bisexual father families: partners' and children's perspectives on bisexuality and family life - Maisie Matthews (she/her) - Bisexual+ Men, Discretion, and the Heteropatriarchy - Corey Tatz (he/him) - Bisexual Transgender Men in Queer Spaces: Navigating Identity, Relationships, and the Fight for Reproductive Rights - Alexander Danardanu (he/him) - Bi+ Men’s Digital Life Writing: Lived Experiences and Cultural Imaginaries - Mateusz Miesiac (he/him) |
Panel- Bi+ Communities, Spaces and Social Support Chair: Lucia Tralli |
- A call to bi asylum inclusion in LGBTQ asylum support communities and bi communities - Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh (they/them) - The Beach as a Queer Setting: Analysis of a Case Study from Italian Contemporary Cinema - María Emilia Muñoz (she/her) - Social Support and Mental Health in Brazilian Bisexual Women - Luiza Servino (she/her/ela/dela), Nicholas Robin (he/him), Vitória Pigatto (she/her), Thais Arnoud (she/her), Luísa Habigzang (she/her) - The Everyday Affective Geography of Bisexual Men of India through the Intersectionality of Caste - Victor Banerjee (he/him) |
| 9am ET 2pm BST 3pm CEST |
Meditation Introduction: Elen Davenport-Pleasance |
Oli Lipski (she/her) | ||
| 9.15am ET 2.15pm BST 3.15pm CEST |
Keynote Chair: Gabryelle Iaconetti |
Mel Reeve | ||
| 10am ET 3pm BST 4pm CEST |
Break | |||
| 11am ET 4pm BST 5pm CEST |
Panel – Activism Chair: Aurelio Castro |
- Italian bi+ politics beyond visibility: narrating the activism and research through a book - Aurelio Castro (he/any pronouns) Queerness and climate activism: using illustration to construct playful spaces - Devon Tipping (she/they) - Introducing the Bisexual Killjoy: The Revolutionary in You - Bailey Merlin (she/her), Lynn Rios Rivera (they/them) |
Panel - Bi+ Arts Chair: Lucia Tralli |
- From Binegativity to Identity Affirmation: Exploring the Bisexual Woman Identity Through a Heuristic Self-Study Utilizing Weaving - Kaylie Hatos (she/her) - Does the term “sapphic” make bisexuality among women more visible? - Soraya Cipolla (she/her) - Images of bisexual women in Japan: Mainstream media, YouTube and Scholarly Discourse - Camila Neira (she/her) - Loving Them Both: Colin MacInnes and the Complexity of Bisexuality - Kim Kemmis (he/him) |
| 12pm ET 5pm BST 6pm CEST |
Panel- Minority Stress and Mental Health Chair: Ellen Davenport-Pleasance |
- Biphobia as a Distinct Form of Minority Stress - Noam Mizrahi (she/they) - Bi & Borderline: An Exploration Into The Experiences of Bi+ Women & Femmes with Borderline Personality Disorder - Laura Clarke (she/they) - Bisexuals in Psychotherapy: "The Bi Cure", Experiences of Discrimination and Pathologization - Felipe Damacena (he/him), Luís Lima (he/him) - Interventions to Reduce Prejudice Against Bisexual People and Bisexuality: A Systematic Review - Eric Manalastas (he/él), Isabel Benjamin (she), Helena Blumenau (she), Em Shea (she/they), Brian A. Feinstein (he) |
Panel – Bi+ History and Archives Chair: Gabryelle Iaconetti |
- The absence of female bisexuality in mediaeval and early modern history- Anna-Lea Gisela Krampe (she/her) - BiArchivio : an Italian Bisexual, Pansexual and Non-Monosexual Archive - Tommaso Mori (they/he/she) Bisexual voices in early French homosexual movement : bisexual presence and invisibility in the Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire (1971-1973) - Wohosheni (she/her) Greetings from the Archive: Bi+ Theorizing in Germany in the 90s - Samu-elle Striewski (they/them) |
| 1pm ET 6pm BST 7pm CEST |
Break | |||
| 1.30pm ET 6.30pm BST 7.30pm CEST |
Panel- Interdisciplinary Approaches Chair: Derek Sollberg |
- Bisexual Villain: Navigating Identity and Resilience through Poetry - Ross Victory (he/him) - “I always had a bit of bisexual in me, I just didn’t know it”: Exploring sexual identity development using the Klein Grid in gay/lesbian and bisexual adults in Southern Chile - Ligia Orellana (she/her), Abner Silva (he/him), Tatiana Alarcón (she/her) - Which Best Identifies You? Deconstructing Researchers’ Decisions on Sexual Identity Categories and Labels in Bi+ College Student Scholarship - Steve Lemerand (he/him), Kaity Prieto (she/her), Antonio Duran (he/him/él) - Full Circle - a coming out story - Irina Latis (she/her) - Valid (Bio)Diversity - Ale Garin-Fernandez (they/he) - Bisexual Studies in Dialogue with Continental Philosophy - Miguel Obradors-Campos (he/his) |
Panel- Relationships and Intimate Partner Violence Chair: Taralyn Parr |
- Lowering Intimate Partner Violence Against Bisexual Women: The Tools We Have and the Tools We Need - Amber Mclaughlin (she/her/he/him) - Bi-visibility and Bi-positivity within Monogamous Romantic Relationships - Lila Webb (she/her), Susan Boon (she/her) - Intimate Partner Violence, Biphobia and Mental Health: Bisexual Women's Experiences from Brazil and Italy - Thaís Arnoud (she/her), Valeria Bruno (she/her), Clarissa Freitas (she/her), Jessica Pistella (she/her), Roberto Baiocco (he/his), Luísa Habigzang (she/her) - Narratives of Bi+ experiences through Zulu marriage rituals - Mpumelelo Zamokuhle Zulu (He/Him/They/Them) |
| 3pm ET 8pm BST 9pm CEST |
Poetry and Closing |
Poetry Reading by 2024 Lambda Award Winner in Outstanding Bisexual Poetry - Danielle Cadena Deulen (she/her) Robyn Ochs Closing remarks by the Bisexual+ Research Group Leadership Team |
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