The Kinsey Institute sponsors a series of interdisciplinary seminars for Indiana University faculty and graduate students. The purpose of the seminar series is to address topics that relate to sexuality and lend themselves to interdisciplinary discussion. A presentation is followed by comments from one or two invited discussants from different disciplines, then open for general discussion.

Seminars are held in The Kinsey Institute Conference Room, Morrison Hall. Those attending should take the stairs or elevator to the third-floor reception area. You are welcome to bring your lunch for the noon talks.

All seminars are held in Morrison Hall 313, 12 - 1 pm, unless otherwise noted.

Held in the Kinsey Institute 2nd Floor Conference Room, Morrison Hall. Please feel free to bring your bagged lunch.

Dr. Gagnon was a Senior Research Sociologist and Trustee of The Kinsey Institute in the 1960s, and is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at SUNY Stonybrook. He will be presenting a new interpretation of Dr. Alfred Kinsey's research. Held in the Kinsey Institute 2nd floor Conference Room, Morrison Hall.

Dr. Gagnon will also be speaking the next day on his experience and insights in a career of sex research - 10:45 am, Wednesday, November 12th at the University Club at the Indiana Memorial Union. That talk is sponsored by the Center for Sexual Health Promotion.

Wednesday, February 11th, 12-1 pm
"Pregnancy prevention in the context of pleasure-seeking: Relationships between contraceptive use and women's sexuality"
Jenny Higgins, Princeton University, Office of Population Research & The Center for Health & Wellbeing

Wednesday, February 18th, 12-1
"My brain knows that you are not looking at me"
Aina Puce, Ph.D., Indiana University

Dr. Puce is the Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor, Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Director of the Imaging Research Facility at Indiana University.

Wednesday, March 25th, 12-1
Pheromonal communication in humans: lessons from mice to men
Sachiko Koyama, Ph.D.

Dr. Koyama is a post-doctoral fellow and Research Associate in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior where she is collaborating in a behavioral analysis of cowbirds with Prof. Meredith West and Dr. Andrew King.

Monday, May 4th, 12-1:15
'May I?' On love and sexuality in a new generation of young people with intellectual disabilities
Charlotta Löfgren-Mårtenson, Malmö University, Sweden

Dr. Löfgren-Mårtenson is a Kinsey Institute Visiting Scholar. She is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Society at Malmö University, where she and Dr. Sven-Axel Mansson, a former KI Visiting Scholar, established a new Masters program in Sexology which started in the fall of 2007. Her research focuses on sexuality and intellectual disabilities, love and sex on the Internet, and youth and pornography.