The Future of Intimacy Workshop

On the 28th May, CLSR hosted a one-day workshop on the future of intimacy.

The day consisted of six talks exploring online dating, roles and relationships, friendships and morality, consent and safe words, and the nature of love.

Programme:

  • Lucy Shanahan (Leeds): The Future of Safe Words in CNC Roleplay
  • Brian Heaphy (Manchester): Dating App Intimacies, Cruel Optimism and Epidemics
  • Sophie Goddard (Leeds): Love, Vulnerability and Anti-Attachment Drugs
  • Paloma Morales (LSE): On Friendships with Bad People and Moral Snobbery
  • Gerald Lang (leeds): Roles and Normativity
  • Camil Golub (Rutgers): Love as a Practice