[Upcoming Seminar] Consent in the Dark: Good Sex, Universities, and the State

"Consent in the Dark: Good Sex, Universities, and the State" 

Speaker: Professor Carole S. Vance (Columbia University)

Time*: 4:30p.m, 14th January 2016

Venue: LT4, Yasumoto International Academic Park, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

*Light refreshment will be available at the tea-reception area outside LT1 from 4:00-4:30p.m.

Poster of the seminar

Speaker's Profile:

Carole S. Vance, MPH, PhD, teaches anthropology at Columbia University of New York, USA. She works on integrating sexuality with human rights frameworks and rights-based health interventions. She has written widely on sexuality, science, gender, and policy; policy controversies about sexual expression and imagery; and sexuality theory and research methods. For the past ten years, she has directed a program on sexuality, gender, health and human rights, which advances policy-relevant scholarship and facilitates exchange between researchers and advocates on sexual health and rights issues. Dr. Vance has extensive experience in training students from developing countries, particularly on research methods in sexuality, and the practical application of sexuality research in a range of cultural, national, and policy contexts. Dr. Vance currently is involved in research on trafficking into forced prostitution, also known as sex trafficking, with particular focus on the ways in which ethnographic research can inform policy, as well as health and rights interventions. Dr. Vance edited the landmark collection, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, and is completing the edited volume, Ethnography and Policy: What Do We Know about Trafficking?, with publication in 2007. In 2005, Dr. Vance received the David R. Kessler Award for lifetime contributions to studies of sexuality.

All interested are welcome!