FULL PROGRAM
4th-5th October 2025

DAY ONE - OCTOBER 4th

DAY ONE - OCTOBER 4th

DAY 1 - Click to Register on Zoom
Time Panel & Host Presentations & Presenters

6.15am ET

11.15am BST

12.15pm CEST

 Opening -
The Bisexual+ Research Group Leadership Team 


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


*Invisible and Unheard: Research on Bi+ People’s Experiences with Sexual Violence and Support Services in the Netherlands by Jantine van Lisdonk


*I Can’t Be Myself If I’m a Mother: A Thematic Analysis of Bisexual Women’s Experiences of Being Childfree by Petra Coufalová and Hana Přikrylová Kučerová

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


*Ivan IV. and Fyodor Basmanov - Historical Figures between Queer Icons and Bloodthirsty Sinners by Svenja Castrup

*Renildo Case: Violence, Politics, and the Production of Memory in Alagoas by Jinx Vilhas


*Epistemic Justice in Brazil: Tracing Histories, Health, and Bisexuality by Ludmilla Soares, Nilson Dutra dos Santos Júnior and Ana Beatriz Azavedo Queiroz

8.45am ET

1.45pm BST

2.45pm CEST

 ! 30 MINUTES BREAK !


9.15 ET

2.15 BST

3.15 CEST

 Workshop
Host: Lucia Tralli		 Teaching Bi+ Cinema, Literature, and Other Media by Soraya Cipolla

9.45am ET

2.45pm BST

3.45pm CEST

 Workshop
Host: Aurelio Castro		 Italian activism network by RABBIT: Rete Attivismo Bisessuale+ Italiana

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


*Understanding the Bisexual Mental Health Crisis by Dave Fox


*The Invisible Binary and the Epistemic Resistance of Bi+ Narratives by Pamela Vallejos Chavez


*“The Places Where I Exist”: Navigating the Marketplace with Bi+ Community by Abigail Nappier Cherup (To Be Confirmed)

11.15am ET

4.15pm BST

5.15pm CEST

 ! 15 MINUTES BREAK ! 

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

12pm ET

5pm BST

6pm CEST

 Panel: Bi+ Books
Host: Noam Mizrahi

*Step Bi Step: Navigating teenage bi+ identities by Laura Clarke


*Bi All Accounts: Building Belonging Through Bi+ Literary Space by Bailey Merlin and
the Bi+ Books Gang

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

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 *

DAY 2 - Click to Register on Zoom!
Time Panel & Host Presentations & Presenters

7.15am ET

12.15pm BST

1.15pm CEST

 Opening -
The Bisexual+ Research Group Leadership Team 


7.30am ET

12.30pm BST

1.30pm CEST

 Panel: Bi+ Research Activism: Bridging Knowledge and Action
Host: Aurelio Castro

* Bi+ Research Activism: Bridging Knowledge and Action by Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh, Jantine van Lisdonk, Nadja Arontschik, Dhéo Carvalho

8.30am ET

1.30pm BST

2.30pm CEST

 Panel: Workshop
Host: Gabryelle Iaconetti

What Do We Need Bi+ Theory For? Debating Bi+ Critique by Samu/elle Striewski

9am ET

2pm BST

3pm CEST

 Panel: Privilege, Passing, and Discrimination
Host:  Ellen Davenport-Plesance

*Is 'Straight-Passing' a Privilege? A Grounded Theory Exploration of Bi+ College Student Passing by Steve Lemerand and Kaity Prieto


*Double Discrimination Against Bisexual People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Source Differences by Eric Manalastas


*The Model of Bisexual Stigma and Mental Health: Pathways to Developing Bisexual Interventions by Alexandra Black and Katherine Nelson-Coffey


*Biphobia - Internalized Shame and Black Bisexuality by Chizu Ukachi-Nwata and Zoomy Taylor

10am ET

3pm BST

4pm CEST

 ! 15 MINUTES BREAK ! 

10.15am ET

3.15pm BST

4.15pm CEST

 Panel: Masculinities
Host: Aurelio Castro

*“I’m not as gay as other queer people”:
Bi+ men’s perceptions of masculinity and sexual identity by Jason Preston and James Ravenhill


*Challenging Bi-Invisibility: A Literature Review on Digital Narratives of Male Bisexuality by Vincenzo Cicala


*Behind Closed Doors: Brojobs and the Hidden World of Heteroflexible & Bi+ Desire by Corey Tatz

11am ET

4pm BST

5pm CEST

 Panel: Bi+ Media /1
Host: Lucia Tralli

*Bi-Erotic Possibilities in the James Bond Canon by Ian Kinane


*From Striver to Disaster: The Bisexual as Figuration of Contemporary Socioeconomic Decline by Maria San Filippo


*Mainstreaming Bisexuality since Orange is the New Black: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Bisexual, and Beyond by Michelle Bloom 

12pm ET

5pm BST

6pm CEST

 ! 15 MINUTES BREAK ! 

12.15pm ET

5.15pm BST

6.15pm CEST

 Workshop
Host: Aurelio Castro		 “What Do Bi+ People Want?”: Insights from Bisexual Killjoy by Bailey Merlin and Jace Ríos Rivera

12.45pm ET

5.45pm BST

6.45pm CEST

Panel: Bi+ Media /2
Host: Lucia Tralli

*Coding Visibility - The Bisexual Emoji Proposal in 2025 by Ross Victory


*To bi+ or not to bi+: mapping bipositivity on stage by Alice Rugai and Rhiannon Ling


*Bisexuality in Contemporary German Literature by Caterina Richter


*Am I Being Biphobic Or Just Setting Boundaries?”: A Discourse Theoretical Analysis of Bisexual and Lesbian Relationality Constructions in Autostraddle’s AF+ Column Between 2017 and 2024 by Maedbh Pierce

1.45pm ET

6.45pm BST

7.45pm CEST

 Keynote
Host: Gabryelle Iaconetti		 Bisexuality and the Law by Nancy Marcus, Eliot Tracz, and Ann Tweedy

2.15pm ET

7.15pm BST

8.15pm CEST

 Day 2 Closing 

Final Celebration of the Weekend! 

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