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Call for Proposals: Exhibitionism – Sexuality at the Museum

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Call for Papers for Exhibitionism conference. Deadline is August 15, 2021.The Kinsey Institute, the Wilzig Erotic Art Museum, and the Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality are hosting “Exhibitionism – Sexuality at the Museum,” a hybrid conference featuring online sessions during the day and evening events at WEAM for attendees in Miami and those who wish to travel to Miami.

The conference will take place on December 9th – 11th, 2021 and aims to bring together researchers, museum practitioners, artists, and educators whose work involves sexuality in museums, collections, and exhibition spaces.

Deadline for submissions: August 14, 2021. Conference registration begins Sept 1. (more…)

Update on the KI-TSRC & Traumatic Stress Research

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2020 was an extraordinary year for the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium (KI-TSRC). Led by Kinsey Institute researchers Dr. Stephen Porges and Dr. Jacek Kolacz, membership in the consortium grew to over 900 clinicians and therapists from more than 40 countries. The consortium continued ongoing studies in trauma and its survey of trauma professionals and launched new studies, including a client survey and new COVID-19 research. (more…)

New Study on Post-Pandemic Sex

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This winter, the Kinsey Institute partnered with Hearst magazines Cosmopolitan and Esquire to investigate how Americans are coping with the pandemic in their sex lives, and what they think post-pandemic sex will look like.

The survey, designed by the Kinsey Institute’s Dr. Amanda Gesselman, asked a  national demographically-representative sample of 2000 Americans a variety of questions about the impact of COVID-19 on their relationships and sexual activity. (more…)

SSRC Grant for New Research on COVID-19 and LGBTQ+ Loneliness

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headshot of Dr. Amanda GesselmanDr. Amanda Gesselman has been awarded an SSRC Covid-19 Rapid-Response Grant. These grants provide funding for projects from across the social sciences and related fields that address the social, economic, cultural, psychological, and political impact of Covid-19 in the United States and globally, as well as responses to the pandemic’s wide-ranging effects.

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