ERICA lunchtime talks

Our lunchtime talks will start in September 2024! They will be held in hybrid (UQAM and Zoom) between 12:30 pm and 1:45 pm.



Juliette Chevet – Monday, March 16th 2026 – Zoom

Scripts reçus et appropriés : l’expérience des femmes spectatrices de films et séries romantiques

Master’s student in Research and Intervention in Sexology at UQAM

Marie Castel- Wednesday, April 8th 2026 – UQÀM

Coordination d’intimité : pratiques professionnelles, enjeux de production et de représentations

Intimacy coordination specialist


Amélie Cousineau – Monday, January 13th 2025 – Zoom

Portrayals of sexual assault in the Quebec television series M’entends-tu ?

Doctoral student in Population Studies (Institut national de recherche scientifique – INRS).

Rajae Anys – Monday, March 17th 2025 – Zoom

Underage girls marriage in Morocco: a qualitative study of the factors encouraging this intimate practice among adult husbands.

Doctoral student in Sociology (UQAM).

Selemani Djemba  – Monday, April 14th 2025 – Zoom

A question of dowry : new couple configurations in customary marriages of the French-speaking Luba diaspora in the D.R.C.

Master’s student in Sociology (UQAM)

Marine Lambolez  – Monday, September 8th 2025 – Zoom

The new norms of love amongst adolescents: a case study of 13-year-olds in France.

Doctoral student in Sociology (Centre Max Weber)

Malthe Sebastian Rye Thomsen – Monday, November 3rd 2025 – Zoom (in english)

Longing for Love in a Digitized Dating Life: Disillusion and Dreams among Young Danish Adults 

Doctoral Student in Anthropology at the Department of Communication (University of Copenhagen).

Mariana Borges Da Fonseca – Monday, December 8th 2025 – Zoom (in english)

What Makes a “Good” Woman or Man to Date? Cultural Models of Desired Partner Characteristics for Long- and Short-Term Relationships in Brasília and Montreal

Doctoral Student in Psychology (Concordia)


Anna Rita Parini – Monday, September 16th 2024 – Zoom & UQAM (Room A-5020)

« Portrait de la jeune fille en feu » vs. « La vie d’Adèle »: (Re)Appropriation of the gaze, commitment and de-hierarchisation in Céline Sciamma’s Lesbian & Feminist Cinema

Doctoral student in Sociology with a major in Feminist Studies (UQAM).

Meygan St-Louis – Monday, October 21st 2024 – Zoom

Madonna’s SEX (1992): an analysis of the origins and manifestations of American bourgeois sexual culture.

Doctoral student in History (UQTR).

Aziliz Kondracki -Monday, November 18th 2024 – Zoom

‘Ordinary beauties: The process of selecting candidates for the reality TV show “Married at First Sight” in Poland’.

Jules Pector-Lallemand – Monday, December 9th 2024 – UQAM (Room A-5020).

Intimacy’s frames analysis: casual sex, situationship, serious.

Doctoral student in Sociology (UDeM).

Lunchtime Talks Postponed

Youb Djebri

Uses of Tinder among young adults in Switzerland: self-presentation, interactions, and relational dynamics

Holder of a Master’s degree in Digital Communication and Media / Multimedia (University of Geneva)