Adorno's "Sexual Taboos and Law Today" – 60 Years On

Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-adornos-sexual-taboos-and-law-today-60-years-on-registration-485669930837

Programme  

(All sessions, including coffee breaks, take place in the Social Sciences Building, ground floor).  

10.00–10.30   Registration and coffee 

10.30–10.45   Introduction by the organisers 

10.45–12.15   Panel 1: Sex and Taboo

• Christine Kirchhoff (International Psychoanalyic University, Berlin):
  Sexual Taboos and Law Today? Reflections from the Perspective of Psychoanalysis 
• Julia König (University of Mainz):
  Reflections on the ›Minors-Complex‹ in Adorno’s 'Sexual Taboos and Law Today' and in Current Moral Panics 

12.15–13.30   Lunch  

13.30–15.00   Panel 2: Sex and Society 

• Marcel Stoetzler (Bangor University):
  Law, Lust, and Otherness in the Society of Total Domination: On Adorno’s Essay ‘Sexual Taboos and Law Today’ 
• Craig Reeves (Birkbeck):
  Persecution, Punishment, and the Potential for Freedom: Reactualising Adorno's Critical Moral Psychology 

15.00–15.15   Coffee 

15.15–16.45   Panel 3: Sex and Crime  

• Iris Dankemeyer (University of Art and Design, Halle):
  Presumption of Innocence: On the Topicality of Adorno’s Lines of Inquiry in 'Sexual Taboos and Law Today'
• Nicola Lacey (LSE): A Feminist Criminal Lawyer’s Retrospective on Adorno’s Text 

16.45–17.00   Coffee 

17.00–18.00   Roundtable with all speakers 

Sponsored by  

Department of Philosophy Warwick, HRC University of Warwick, Aristotelian Society, British Society for the History of Philosophy, Society for Applied Philosophy