7th Global Conference: The Erotic (Exploring Critical Issues)
7th Global Conference
The Erotic
Tuesday 11th September ? Thursday 13th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford
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
This project will run concurrently with our
project on Monsters and the Monstrous ? we welcome
any papers considering the problems or addressing
issues on Monsters and The Erotic for a cross-over
panel. We also welcome pre-formed panels on any
aspect of the monstrous or in relation to
crossover panel(s).
We welcome submissions from within specific
disciplinary boundaries, but we are also
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
16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012.
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, f) up to
10 keywords
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).
Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned
for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts
will be included in this publication. 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 of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/the-
erotic/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/the-
erotic/call-for-papers/
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