Events

LSA 2025 CRN6 Panel Schedule

(As of 4/18/2025)

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Wednesday 5/21

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Day of Dialogue | TBA (This is a CRN6 Event outside the LSA schedule)

Day of Dialogue: Decriminalizing Sex Work in Illinois

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Thursday 5/22

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Paper Session | Room: Randolph 1B

Stratification, Culture & Technology in Sexual Economies

Experiences of Transgender Women on OnlyFans

            By Patricia Fernandez

Pathivratha Precarity: The Inevitability of Sex Work Within Brahmanical Patriarchy in India

            By Kimberly Walters

Regulating Desire: The U.S. Southern States Anti-Porn Bills and Public Perspectives

            By Fernanda Veiverberg

Sex Robots: The Perspectives of Sex Workers

            By Yeela Lahav-Raz‎

Third-Party Platforms and Adult Content Creators: Implications of Racial & Regional Stratification in (Virtual) Sex Work

            By Alex Nelson, A. Douglas, P. Fernandez, H. Maltempi, F. Veiverberg, & Y. Yu

 

10:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Paper Session | Room: Randolph 3

The Impact of Legibility, Litigation, Legality on Labor Rights

A Tale of Two Courts: An exploration of MA and Others v France, R v Kloubakov, and the challenges of rights litigation for sex workers

            By Laura Graham

Conceptual Failure: Comparing the Framings of Human Trafficking with Exploitation in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in Canada

            By Ann De Shalit, Katrin Roots, Jessica Templeman, & Emily van der Meulen

Decriminalised, Debanked and Underserved: Sex Workers’ Financial Exclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand

            By Claire Weinhold

Formally Informal? Sex Work, Stigma, and Institutions

            By Erica Laplante

LGBTIQ* Inclusion in German Academia: Examining the Impact of Invisibility on Legal Protection Against Discrimination

            By Alexander Wulf

 

12:45 PM - 2:30 PM | Paper Session | Room: Roosevelt 1B

Bracing for Impact: Anti-trafficking Policing and International Mega Sporting Events

Eat - Pray - Labor: How the Sports Event Sex Trafficking Mythology Differed at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar

            By Gregory Mitchell

Mapping Mega-Event Policing in Los Angeles

            By Amanda De Lisio, Benton Oliver, Jen Elizabeth, Bria Hamilton, Soma Snakeoil

The Demand for Evidence: Human Trafficking for the Purposes of Sexual Exploitation During the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games

            By Annalee Lepp

 

12:45 PM - 2:30 PM (Roundtable Session-Michigan 1B)

Gender and Social Inequality: Rethinking Law in Contemporary Brazil

Note: Organized by CRN7 (Feminist Legal Theory) and co-sponsored by CRN6

Chair

          Fabio Braga, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Participants

          Fabio Braga, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

          Thais Duarte Zappelini, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

          Ana Claudia Farranha Santana, Universidade de Brasilia - UnB 

          Thallyta Laryssa Pedroza Ferreira Cavoli, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

 

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM | Paper Session | Room: Michigan 2

The Overlooked in Anti-Trafficking

Note: Co-organized by CRN6, CRN23, and CRN 36

Constructive (In)Visibility and the Trafficking Industrial Complex: Leveraging Borders for Exploitation

          By Audrey Lumley-Sapanski & Katarina Schwarz

Human Trafficking in Latin America: Ratification of the Palermo Protocol in Comparative Perspective

          By Pamela Alicia Vargas Gorena

The Challenges of Estimating Prevalence in Human Trafficking Research

          By Todd Landman, Doreen Boyd & Terence Fitzgerald

Trapped in the Migration Lens: The Misguided Approach to the Protection of Victims of Human Trafficking

          By Adedayo Akingbade

 

Friday, 5/23

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Paper Session | Room: Roosevelt 3B

Rethinking Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking

From Anti-Trafficking to Anti-Prostitution: American Philanthropy at the League of Nations

          By Jean Allain

Reproductive Exploitation in the Amended EU Anti-Trafficking Directive

          By Lauren Eglen

Tackling Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Brazil as Edgework: How Service Providers Work With Young People and Against Structures

          By Ben Brewster

 

10:00 AM - 11:45 AM | New Books in the Field | Room: Michigan 1B

CRN06 Sex, Work, Law and Society New Books in the Field

Voicing Consent – Sex Workers, Sexual Violation and Legal Consciousness in Cross-National Contexts

          Teela Sanders, Jane Scoular, Barbara G. Brents, Susie Balderston, & Gillian Abel

Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice

          Elene Lam & Chanelle Gallant

Israeli Masculinity, Sex Work, and Consumerism: Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires

          Yeela Lahav-Raz

South Asian Pornographies: Vernacular Formations of the Permissible and the Obscene

          Darshana Sreedhar Mini & Anirban K. Baishya

Judging Sex Work: Bedford and the Attenuation of Rights

          Colton Fehr

Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the Twenty-First Century

          Bernadette Barton, Barbara G. Brents & Angela Jones

 

12:45 PM - 2:30 PM | Author Meets Reader (AMR) Session | Room: Michigan 1B 
AMR Margaret L. Boittin, The Regulation of Prostitution in China: Law in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers, Police Officers, and Public Health Officials

Author

          Margaret Boittin, York University

Readers

          Sarah Biddulph, University of Melbourne 

          Kathryn Hendley, University of Wisconsin, Madison

          Ethan Michelson, Indiana University Bloomington 

 

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM | Professional Development Panel | Room: Grand D North

Participation or Collaboration? Grappling with Qualitative Methods and Ethics in Research with “Difficult to Reach” Populations

Chairs

           Corinne Schwarz, Oklahoma State University

           Corey Shdaimah, University of Maryland

Participants

           Menaka Raguparan, University of North Carolina Wilmington

           Jamie Rowen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

           Atieh Babakhani, Ramapo College of New Jersey

 

4:45 PM - 6:30 PM | Paper Session | Room: Randolph 2

Empowering Communities: Grassroots Resistance and Social Change

Bodily Autonomy and Rationality in Anti-Trans Legislation and Policing in Georgia, U.S.A.

          By SJ Dillon

Decriminalizing Sex Work - An Overview of Successes and a Plan Forward

          By Crystal DeBoise

Lessons Learned: Sex work, Mutual aid, and COVID-19

          By Michelle Lesley Annett & Rob Heynen

Racialized and Indigenous sex workers and the Canadian Sex Workers' Rights Movement

          By Menaka Raguparan & Julie Ham

Sexual Violence Prevention through Network Governance in Bondage Dominance Sadism and Masochism (BDSM) Communities: An Empirical Study

          By Malavika Parthasarathy

 

Saturday, 5/24

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Paper Session | Room: Randolph 3

Methodological and Theoretical Innovations in Studying Sex Work, Sexuality, Media and Law

Fairy Tales and the Law

          By Emily Tivoli

Law’s a Drag: A Queer Collaborative Research Network

          By James Greenwood-Reeves & Rosie Fox

Sex Worker Memoirs as Methodological Intervention to Resist Anti-Prostitution Sentiments: A Reading of Nalini Jameela's Autobiographies

          By Rajeshwari Nandkumar

 

10:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Roundtable Session | Room: Monroe 5 Boardroom

Moving the Needle: Mapping New Directions for Critical Anti-trafficking Advocacy

Chair

          Rashmee Singh, University of Waterloo
Participants

          Alison Clancey, GAATW Canada  
          Leigh Elliott, Peers Victoria Resources Society
          Julie Ham, Department of Sociology, Brock University
          Annalee Lepp, Gender Studies, University of Victoria

 

12:45 PM - 2:30 PM | Roundtable Session | Room: Michigan 1B

Queer Politics, Rightward Retrenchment

Note: Organized by CRN7 Feminist Legal Theory and co-sponsored by CRN6

Chair

          Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto
Participants

          Daniel Del Gobbo, University of Windsor Faculty of Law
          Joseph Fischel, Yale University  
          Senthorun Raj, Manchester Metropolitan University
          Kate Redburn, Columbia Law School  
          I. India Thusi, Indiana University Bloomington

 

2:45 PM - 4:30 PM | Roundtable Session | Room: Michigan 1A

Gender and Political Economy

Note: co-organized by CRN7, CRN55 & CRN6)

Chair

          Chantal Thomas, Cornell University

Participants

          Helena Alviar, Sciences Po Law School
          Kerry Rittich, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
          Nicole Stybnarova, Harvard University  
          Yiran Zhang, Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations