LSR11 KEYNOTES
Dr. Ellen M. Kaufman is an interdisciplinary researcher and Senior Research Associate at the Kinsey Institute. Her research focuses on the intersection of sexuality and technology, exploring how our relationships and overall sexual and emotional wellbeing are shaped by new modalities of connection.
Charlotte Poitras is a queer and neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal, working across literary, visual, media, and performing arts. Her body of work, comprising more than one hundred pieces, has circulated in Quebec and abroad through a documentary and conceptual approach. She transforms the traces left behind by people into works that push back against indifference and challenge what society prefers to overlook.
​Valerie A. Lapointe is a PhD candidate in psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Their recent work examines how generative AI is reshaping sexuality and intimate relationships. Specifically, Valerie focuses on platform affordances and governance challenges surrounding AI-generated pornography, the forms of erotic content produced using AI, as well as the risks and possibilities these technologies present for human sexuality and emotional (dis)connection.