Laura Agustín’s calendar in Switzerland: Migration, trafficking and commercial sex
Here is the programme of Laura Agustín’s lectures in Switzerland, as Visiting Professor in Gender and Migration, from now until the end of November (Geneva has already taken place):
26 October 12:15 – 13:45 University of Neuchâtel
28 October 1315-1500 University of Fribourg
2 November 1815-2000 University of Bern
8 November 1730-1900 University of Lausanne
10 November 1415-1800 University of Basel
24 November 1815-1945 University of Zürich
All details are on the Swiss gender network website. The lectures will also appear on the Agenda page of the website as their dates approach.
With the academic, media and ‘helping’ gaze fixed on women who sell sex, the great majority of phenomena that make up the sex industry are ignored. People who sell sex tend to be examined in terms of ‘prostitution’, focussing on transactions between individuals and personal motivations. A cultural-studies approach looks at commercial sex in its widest sense, examining its intersections with art, migration, ethics, service work, consumption, family life, entertainment, sport, economics, urban space, sexuality, tourism, informal economies and criminality, not omitting issues of race, class, gender, identity and citizenship. The object is to study the everyday practices involved, to reveal how our societies distinguish between activities considered normatively ‘social’ and activities denounced as criminally and morally wrong and to look for ways out of a seemingly intransigent social conflict.
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Alas, Larry King tonight is about trafficking. He interviews one of the women who was recruited into the business at age 15 and was later rescued.
http://larrykinglive.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/18/tonight-on-larry-king-11/
Not that CNN has exactly taken an objective approach to the reporting on trafficking…