Spectacles of Childhood: Law, Child Pornography, and Sex Panic
Thursday, April 30, 2009
8:00-10:00 p.m.
19 University Place (between 8th Street and Waverly Place), Great Room, 1st Floor
In this lively interdisciplinary forum, feminist legal scholar Professor Amy Adler traces the rapid development of child pornography law in the United States. She suggests that the way the law imagines and constructs childhood sexual vulnerability may unwittingly perpetuate and even escalate the sexualized representations of children it seeks to constrain. Adler’s opening presentation will be followed by two responses, one from a psychoanalytic perspective, and the other from a queer cultural theory paradigm. This forum is part of the year-long lecture series “Pornography and Anxiety: Psychoanalysis, Morality and Culture.”
Discussants: Ann Pellegrini, Performance Studies and Religious Studies, NYU
Avgi Saketopoulou, Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU
Co-sponsored by the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center; and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.
April 27th 2009