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Maree Crabbe
Eroticising Inequality: Pornography, young people and sexuality
Pornography has become a default sex educator for many young people, with serious implications for their capacity to negotiate free and full consent, for mutual respect, sexual health, and gender equality. There is growing concern internationally that pornography is contributing to cultural conditions that cultivate sexual assault.
Maree Crabbe is Director of the Australian violence prevention initiative, It’s time we talked. She is an educator, author, researcher and filmmaker who is passionate about gender-based violence prevention, and about supporting parents, schools, communities and government to address pornography’s influence on young people.
Emily Colgan
She/Her
Assoc Prof. of BIblical Studies Trinity Theological College.
Bible and Contemporary Social Imaginaries
Emily Colgan is a Pākehā/palagi researcher in biblical studies from Aotearoa New Zealand. She lives in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) and works at Trinity Theological College as the Academic Director and Associate Professor of Biblical Studies (Hebrew Bible). Her research focuses on the relationship between the Bible and contemporary social imaginaries, exploring the ways in which ideologies within biblical texts continue to inform communities in the present. Emily is particularly interested in ecological representations in the Bible, as well as depictions of gender and violence. She is the author of Jeremiah: An Earth Bible Commentary (forthcoming) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Eve (2024) and the multi-volume work, Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion (2018). Emily is co-host of The Bloody Bible Podcast and co-director of The Shiloh Project.
Plenary Speakers
Farjana Mahbuba
Farjana Mahbuba
Farjana Mahbuba
She/Her
Researcher, Australian Catholic University -
Religion, Gender & Culture
Sarah Wendt
Farjana Mahbuba
Farjana Mahbuba
She/Her
Professor of Social Work at Melbourne University -
Violence Against Women
Naomi Wolfe
Farjana Mahbuba
Geoff Thompson
She/Her
Trawlwoolway Aboriginal woman & lecturer in history & theology at ACU
Geoff Thompson
Farjana Mahbuba
Geoff Thompson
He/Him
Rev. Associate Professor of Theology
Charissa Suli
Rachel Kronberger
Charissa Suli
She/Her
President of the Uniting Church in Australia
Steff Fenton
Rachel Kronberger
Charissa Suli
They/Them
Genderqueer speaker, writer, and pastor
Safina Stewart
Rachel Kronberger
Rachel Kronberger
She/Her
Storyteller and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lead at Common Grace
Rachel Kronberger
Rachel Kronberger
Rachel Kronberger
She/Her
Uniting Church minister at Wesley Church, Melbourne
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge that The Wesley Centre and its staff are working and residing on the land of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation and acknowledge Elders past and present.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.