The AFIN Research Group opens the call for papers for the III International Congress SexAFIN: Gender Perspectives on Sexuality and Digital Media, which will be held online from November 5 to 7, 2025, via the Zoom platform.
The event aims to bring together researchers, professionals, and students from different disciplines to reflect on how children, adolescents, and young people experience and negotiate their sexual experiences in digital environments. Against risk-centered discourses, the congress proposes an approach that recognizes the agency of children and youth in constructing their own narratives, knowledge, and practices.
Over three days, the congress will feature presentations, panel discussions, and keynote lectures addressing topics such as access to pornography, the exchange of intimate images, social media, digital sex education, the moral and technological regulation of bodies, online consent, and new forms of pleasure, desire, and affect in digital platforms. Keynote speakers will include Dr. Deevia Bhana, Dr. Jessica Ringrose, Dr. Sanna Spišák, and Dr. Kath Albury.
Registration is free and will be open from September 30 to October 15, 2025. Proposals for participation (individual papers or collective panels) must be submitted through the official congress website before September 15. Selected participants will be notified of acceptance before September 30.
The congress will offer simultaneous translation in Spanish, Catalan, and English, and will feature international speakers who are key figures in gender, sexuality, and technology studies. All sessions will be recorded and made available on the AFIN Group’s YouTube channel.
This event is part of the science outreach project Sexuality and Digital Environments: A Gender Perspective Approach, funded by the Women’s Institute of the Spanish Ministry of Equality.
More information, program, and proposal submission form available at this link.