This project was set up as a collaborative project between anthropology postgraduate students and staff at the University of Wales Lampeter. The project comprised two workshops carried out in Mid-Wales and each workshop consisted of a one-day conference event.
Issues related to consent and dominance underpin many of the timely issues currently discussed within anthropology and the social sciences in the attempts to understand in greater depth other individuals and groups in the world today. Particularly focusing on the constitutions and conceptions of ethnicities citizenship and sexualities researchers focusing on issues of consent and/or dominance may be left questioning where these issues may begin and end in the dynamic and complex everyday lives of people today. Addressing these issues two one-day workshops were held on September 10th 2008 and February 9th 2009 consecutively. The first of these workshops was on the theme of 'Consent' the second on the theme of 'Dominance'. The proposed themes of the workshops addressed these and other issues in depth so as to provide for new researchers as well as current lecturing members of staff new avenues for the exploration of these interlocking issues. Within these broad concepts postgraduate students and lecturers presented papers on current and upcoming research their agendas questions and thoughts for discussion.
