Date : 2017-10-11
Time : 12:30-14:00
Venue : Room 109, Chen Kou Bun Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Speaker: Nicholas de Villiers, Associate Professor of English
and Film, University of North Florida, USA
Moderator: TSENG Hsun Hui, Assistant Professor,
Gender Studies Programme, CUHK
Language: English
Free Registration:
https://goo.gl/4aG8BVAbstract: Dr. Nicholas de Villiers discusses his
recently published book, Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary (University of
Minnesota Press, 2017), examining a transnational selection of documentaries
about sex work. His talk addresses the ethical questions raised by ethnographic
documentary and interviews with sexually marginalized subjects. He provides an
overview of the complementary approaches of Foucauldian critique of
confessional discourse, critical ethnography of sex work (and sex worker rights
activism), and theories of reflexive documentary.
Speaker Bio: Nicholas de Villiers is associate
professor of English and Film at the University of North Florida, USA. He is
also currently a visiting scholar at Taiwan National Central University's
Center for the Study of Sexualities. He is the author of Opacity and the
Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol (Minnesota, 2012) and
Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary (Minnesota, 2017). He has published journal
articles in Paragraph, Symploke, Jump Cut, and positions: asia critique, and
serves on the editorial board of Screen Bodies