Colloque: Sexologie et idéologie à l’âge de l’institutionnalisation (1960-2000), 21-23 March 2018, Brussels

Le cadre de l’ARC « Révolution sexuelle et (dé)pilarisation de 1960 à 2000: une spécificité belge – Contribution à une histoire des normes de genre et de sexualité »
Time: 21-23 March 2018
Venue: Brussels
Scientific Committee Sylvie Chaperon (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès), Dominique De Fraene (ULB),
Tommy De Ganck (ULB), Laura Di Spurio (ULB), Guy Lebeer (ULB), Carla Nagels (ULB), David Paternotte (ULB), Chris Paulis (ULiège), Valérie Piette (ULB), Cécile Vanderpelen-Diagre (ULB)
Having for object sexuality, sexology is a set of knowledge and practices having vocation to regulate or transform social order by defining the norms prevailing in the intimacy. As such, it is a powerful tool for ideologies. It conveys knowledge and implements pratices in line with doctrines, systems of thought or dogmas. This question of the relationship between sexology and ideology seems particularly relevant in the post-Second World War context, when sexology undergoes a process of professionalization and institutionalization. Read more and programme … (PDF)