The best of both worlds: one of 2023’s most talked about films, preceded by a lecture by one of the best lecturers of Erasmus University. Dr. Samira van Bohemen of the Erasmus Love Lab gives an introduction to the film How to Have Sex, the debut feature of the British Molly Manning Walker, bringing her expertise to the screening room: What is good sex? How do young people feel about this? Is a hot girl summer a good space for sexual experimentation, and for discovering one’s (sexual) identity? Or does it also put pressure on the youths to cross their boundaries?
Dr. Samira van Bohemen is assistant professor of cultural sociology at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB) and head of the Erasmus Love Lab. Her research mainly deals with everyday Identity Politics and distinguishes itself through its serious engagement with pleasure and ‘good sex’. She researches among other things how different social groups (come to) experience some sexual activities as pleasurable (or not) and how these experiences are connected to identity.
About How to Have Sex
Three sixteen year-old best friends head off to Crete for a week of sun, partying and (hopefully) hooking up, before their lives diverge. Debut feature filmmaker Molly Manning Walker deservedly won the Cannes Un Certain Regard prize for this vibrantly authentic tale of sexual maturation.
This is an English language event. No specific foreknowledge necessary.
Wednesday 31 January, 19.00, Pathé 1, €15/€10 (students)
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How to Have Sex
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