Wednesday, 30 August:
18.00–19.00: KEYNOTE Alex Iantaffi - [title TBA]
from 19.30: Opening event at Schwelle 7
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Thursday, 31 August:
9.00–9:45: Registration
9.45–10.15: Welcome note
10.15–11.15: KEYNOTE Jingshu Zhu - “We’re Not Cheaters”: Polyamory, Mixed-Orientation Marriage and the Danger of Radical Honesty
11.30–13.00: Slot 1
- [DE] Diana Böhme, Christopher Gottwald & Andy Caballero - Ein Gespräch über die polyamore Subkultur in Berlin mit Bildern
- Exploring narratives 1
- Isabelle Coy-Dibley - Inscribing the Female Body with Polyamorous Desire in Anaïs Nin’s Experimental Writing
- Filip Kuklewski - Consensual non-monogamy in the Slavic culture of the Middle Ages
- Hagai Dagan - Subversive Demons: Jewish Demonology vs. Monogamy and Heterosexuality
- Building communities
- Alessandro Pedori - How we built a sex/non-normative relationship positive around the concept of an Adult Playground
- Miguel Vagalume - Survival strategies of non-monogamous communities in Spain
- Mike Upton - STIs, sexual health and non-monogamous intimacies: learning from AIDS
- Michón - Intersectional Non-Monogamy
- Sky - What we never told them. On research gaps and untackled potentials in activism
13.00–14.30: Lunch break
14.30–16.00: Slot 2
- [DE] Annika Spahn & Balthazar Bender - A_sexualität und A_romantik. Eine Einführung aus intersektionaler Perspektive
- Poly biographies?
- Sina Muscarina - Polyamory – Psychological transformations in biographical narratives
- Mimi Schippers - Was Wonder Woman Poly?: Reading Historical Biographies With a Polyqueer Gaze
- Syrene, Pina & Idared - Writing Poly-potentialities
- Exploring communities
- Hsiao-Chuan Hsia - Beyond Victimization: The Empowerment and Movement-Building of the Marriage Migrants in Taiwan
- Laura Zambelli - [title TBA]
- Martijn Kooijman - [title TBA]
- Leo Yankovic - Representation of Polyamory as an inborn trait as a defense line and retreat from political discourse
- The Pleasure Project - Building a fantasy bank of good safe sex stories; storytelling and sexual health
16.30–18.00: Slot 3
- [DE] Helga Pregesbauer - inside and outside of Whore stigma
- Public framings
- Stefan Ossmann - Polyamory in the news: How the German-speaking press frames multiple relationships
- Daniel Cardoso, Marisa Torres da Silva & Ana Rosa - Politics and polyamory – Gendered online discourses about non-monogamies and (in)civility
- Athina Mara - How social policy affects and contributes in the acceptance and the embodiment of homosexual couples in Greece
- Intimacies 1
- Charlotta Carlström - BDSM and non-monogamy
- Lara Özlen - Woman-to-Woman Socializations in İstanbul: Lesbian-Bisexual Intimacies’ Relationality with Solidarity as a Part of Identity Politics
- Jemma Middleton - Intimacy in polyamorous relationships in the Randstad, NL
- Eve Rickert & Franklin Veaux: Putting the ethics in ethical non-monogamy
- Barbara Rothmüller & Marion Thuswald - Un-conventional relationships and emotions: Reflecting on the space of intimate possibilities in sexuality education
18.15–19.15: Slot 4 [60 minutes]
- [DE; 60 min] Sexarbeit
- Christine Nagl - Sexarbeit in Österreich: Diskriminierung, „Hurenstigma” und „Volksgesundheit”
- Tyna Fritschy - Prekarität und Krise: Sex-politix revisited
- [60 min] Transhumanism, genetics, and non-monogamies
- S Palumbo & MC Ferro - New intimacies for a biotechnological era: Transhumanist values and futures
- Julien Wessels - [title TBA]
- [60 min] Jonathan Kent - Getting the Word Out
- [60 min] David Cigánek - Polyamorous relationship escalator or network graph? Attempt to describe the relationship opening as a succession of milestones
- [60 min] James Fleckenstein & Edward Fernandes - Swinging in the Age of Polyamory – A Review and Re-examination
20.30–23.00: Film night with the option of having food/drinks afterwards (to be confirmed)
- [40 min] JP Mizzen - L(L)SL – Limit(less) Sex and Love (English/German, with English subtitles)
- [19 min] Ann Antidote & Roderick - Schlampenau, eine Polygarchutopie / Vacations in Slut Meadow, a polygarchutopia (German, with English subtitles)
- [32 min] Dr. SerenaGaia & Shaison Antony - PLAYA AZUL I LOVE YOU: Together In Ecosexual Love
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Friday, 1 September:
09.10–09.30: Arrival
09.30–10.30: KEYNOTE Andreas Brunner - Intimacy under the condition of prosecution: Gay male relationships in Vienna between 1938 and 1945
10.45–12.15: Slot 4
- [DE] Iris Schmidt Rios & Bernadette Casu - Jolene? Ich lebe Tanz./I live dance.
- [DE/EN; 180 min – runs into Open Space] Christopher Gottwald - Contact Improvisation und alternative Beziehungsformen (Eine Tanzform als Reflexionsmöglichkeit)
- Negotiating non-monogamous lives
- Roma De Las Heras Gómez - Tools for negotiations in non romantic relationships
- Arthur Dombrovsky - [title TBA]
- RM Vaughan - Scheune House Rules
- Renate Baumgartner, Christian Klesse, Emiel Maliepaard & Meg-John Barker - Between sexual agency and fulfilling stereotypes: the intersections between bisexuality and non-monogamies
- Phoenix Flight - Disability, and all sorts of sex
12.45–14.15: Open Space
14.15–15.45: Lunch break
15.45–16.45: KEYNOTE Mollena Williams - [title TBA]
17.00–18.30/19.00: Slot 5 – (extended for 120 min workshops etc.)
- [DE; 120 min] Katharina Payk & Ulrike Koch - Fetisch. Zauber, Zwang und Zugehörigkeit an der Schnittstelle zwischen Norm und Bruch
- [DE; 120 min] Renate Baumgartner, Katharina Payk & Claudia Breitenberger - Bi/Pan/Poly. Zwischen Ausgrenzungserfahrung und aktivistischem Potenzial
- [120 min] Gwendolin Altenhöfer & Katrin Wilhelm: Theory and practical application of Octovism
- [120 min] Intimacies 2
- Luisa Schneider - Relationship’s many faces: love, sex and (a)romanticism in Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Justyna Sempruch - Emotional Sustainability and the Socio-Political Meanings of Non-monogamous Love
- Alexandra Cheira - Happily Ever After? A Feminist Critique of the Meaning of Romantic Love in Contemporary Non/Monogamous Intimacies
- Thomas Schnetlage - Sexuality and Polyamory for Seniors
- [possibly 120 min] Exploring narratives 2
- Redfern Jon Barrett - “Greedy, deviant, and perverse”: Living and writing polyamory
- Dr. SerenaGaia - Sacred Ecosex: Teorema, Il Sessantotto and Pasolini’s Math/Map of Sexual Fluidity and Amorous Inclusiveness
- Martine Mussies - Non-monogamy in computer games
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Saturday, 2 September:
09.10–09.30: Arrival
9.30–11.00: Slot 6
- [DE] Definitionen und Entscheidungen
- Inna Barinberg - Über die Notwendigkeit von Definitionen
- Mona Röhm - Monogamie als unhinterfragte Norm oder bewusst gewählte Beziehungsform?
- Jakob Mirwald - [title TBA]
- Expressions of mononormativity
- Nataliia Kovalchuk - [title TBA]
- Dietmar Wetzel & Nicolette Seiterle - Polyamory and Other Alternative Forms of Relationships in Switzerland – Between Privilege and Discrimination?
- Jessica Kean - Mononormativity in Australian “de facto relationships” law
- Challenges and problems in non-monogamous communities and relationships
- Chaska Hexe Fey - [title TBA]
- Pepper Mint - When Non-Monogamous Community Leaders Are Abusive
- Elisende Coladan - Mistreatment, manipulation, abuse and violence (physical and psychological), in alternative, non-monogamous relationships
- Katrin Ackerl Konstantin & Rosalia Kopeinig - Queerelen!
- Amanda Rose - Unnamed workshop on relationship anarchy
11.30–13.00: Slot 7
- [DE] Red Edition presents: “Let’s Talk About Sex Work”
- [DE] Robert Matzinger - Ein Blick auf die Geschichte der Österreichischen BDSM-Szene und auf deren Einfluss auf die laufende Polyamory-Debatte
- Engaging normativities
- Sabiha Allouche - A Queer becoming? On the ‘Gay friendly’ Islamophobia
- Rahil Roodsaz - Queer self-fashioning among the Iranian Dutch younger generation
- Gesa Mayer - Polynormativity!? – Revisiting the relationship anarchist critique of polyamory
- Charà Tsopakidou - Zine Workshop on Boundaries and Consent
- [90 min] Cornelia Schadler, Christian Klesse & Michael Raab - Non-monogamous parents
13.00–14.30: Lunch break
14.30–16.00: Slot 8
- [DE] Marion Thuswald - Negotiating Intimacies. Research and Reflexion on Professional and Activist Settings of Sex Education
- [multilingual DE + EN] Elina Mikkilä - Randbemerkungen … or Empowering Self-Narratives?
- Gendered discourses/practices
- Katrien De Graeve - Being a good man. Masculinities and morality in the context of non-monogamous internet-mediated dating
- Ryan Scoats - “In my head it feels a little bit more derogatory”: Women’s experiences and expectations of MMF threesomes
- Mona Simu - Traditionalism vs. postmodernism in pop-rock love songs of the youth in Romania: “Him and Her”
- Infidelity and couple centrism
- Marlene Wasserman - #Techintimacies: Psychotherapeutic challenges & management interventions
- Thoma Parker - A Phenomenological Study of Jealousy and Envy in Non-Monogamous Partnerships
- Patricia Pamela - O CIÚME EM RELACIONAMENTOS POLIAMOROSOS SOB A PERSPECTIVA DA ANÁLISE DO COMPORTAMENTO
- Eve Rickert, Alex S. Morgan & Anlina Sheng - After the Call-Out: How to Face Public Conflict With Grace and Accountability
16.30–18.00: Slot 9
- [DE] Familien- und Beziehungsstrukturen
- Theresa Manderscheid - Polyamouröse Familiennetzwerke – Zu nicht-monogamen Familienstrukturen und deren familiärer Lebensrealität
- Martina Binter - Mehrfach Lieben – Zwei Polyküle im Fokus
- Antonia Velicu & Pamina Reichmann - [title TBA]
- Historical perspectives on non-monogamies in the United States
- Karin Wandrei - “Sleeping with the Enemy”. Consensual Non-Monogamy and 1970s AMERICAN Lesbian-Feminists
- Carolyn Herbst Lewis - Suburban Swingers in the Mid-20th Century United States
- Janet Bennion - Lesbianism and Polygamy: What is the connection?
- Boka En & Mercedes Pöll - Teaching and learning intimacies in university(?) settings
- James Fleckenstein & Derrell Cox - Healthy, Happy, Satisfied…and Open: A Mixed Methods Examination of a Large Sample of Individuals in Non-Monogamous Relationships
- Dawn Davidson - Get KISSable! Creating Empowering Relationship Agreements for NMCI
18.15–19.15: KEYNOTE Robin Bauer - “Well, first you became a lesbian, then you’re into this pervy kinky stuff and well I mean then there is really no necessity to get married, right?” – Queer BDSM perspectives on non-monogamous intimacies
19.15: Closing discussion
20.00: Closing event at Schwelle 7