6th Global Conference: The Erotic

6th Global Conference The Erotic

Wednesday 9th November ? Friday 11th November 2011 Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers
Mapping the field of the erotic is a complex and frustrating endeavour; as something which permeates lived experience, interpersonal relationships, intellectual reflection, aesthetic tastes and sensibilities, the erotic is clearly multi-layered and requires a plethora of approaches, insights and perspectives if we are to better to understand, appreciate and define it.

This inter- and trans- disciplinary project seeks to explore critical issues in relation to eroticism and the erotic through its history, its emergence in human development, both individual and phylogenetic, as well as its expression in national and cultural histories across the world, including issues of transgression and censorship. The project will also explore erotic imagination and its representation in art, art history, literature, film and music. These
explorations inevitably touch on the relationship between sexualities, gender and bodies, along with questions concerning the perverse, fetishism and
fantasy, pornography and obscenity.

Papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed panels are also invited on any of the following themes:

    * the erotic and identity
    * disability, ethnicity, gender, class and eroticism
    * the erotic in education and the education of the erotic
    * eroticism in popular culture and media: cinema, tv, theatre, radio, newspapers and magazines, the internet in all its forms
    * the erotic in literature and on the screen exploitative eroticism, e.g., pornography
    * the erotic, ethics and philosophy the eroticised (or de-eroticised) body
    * absence, control and excess of the erotic
    * the erotic and sexuality: is there a difference, and if so, what? the erotic in representation
    * the erotic and (post- neo-)colonialism
    * eroticism in the making of the exotic
    * the erotic in mythology
    * the erotic and the non-human' (vampires, zombies, cyborgs, etc)
    * eroticism and technology: sex toys and other turn-ons

While we welcome submissions from within specific disciplinary boundaries, we are particularly interested in interdisciplinary contributions that balance the scope of insight that disciplines bring with the limitations that disciplinary boundaries create in failing to recognise cross-disciplinary connections, which neglect important historical and cultural perspectives on the development of the 'erotic' as a locus of attention. Consequently, we are particularly keen to encourage submissions that are not subsumed within disciplines, but cut across and between disciplinary vocabularies to
provide new synergies, domains and inter-disciplinary possibilities. We warmly welcome proposals which go beyond traditional paper presentations and encompass also panels, performances and workshops.

300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 17th June 2011. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd September 2011.

Abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or
RTF formats, following this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract E-mails should be entitled: The Erotic Abstract Submission

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs:

Natalia Kaloh Vid
University of Maribor,
Slovenia
Email: [email protected]

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]

The conference is part of the Gender and Sexuality
series of research projects, which in turn belong
to the At the Interface programmes of
Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together
people from different areas and interests to share
ideas and explore discussions which are
innovative and challenging. All papers accepted
for and presented at this conference are eligible
for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected
papers may be invited to go forward for
development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.

For further details about the project please visit
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/the-erotic/

For further details about the conference please visit
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/the-erotic/call-for-papers/