2nd Global Conference
The Erotic: Exploring Critical Issues
Monday 9th May - Wednesday 11th May 2005
Budapest, Hungary
Call for Papers
(please cross post where appropriate)
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore
the challenging and paradoxical nature of the 'erotic' and assess the
reasons for and complications arising out of its resurgence of status
and attention.
In particular the conference will seek to examine how focus on the
erotic has become increasingly specialised within disciplinary
boundaries with the twin effect of failing to recognise
cross-disciplinary connections which centre on this theme and
neglecting important historical and cultural perspectives on the
development of the 'erotic' as a locus of attention.
The conference and the project aims to instigate inter-disciplinary
dialogues which will enable a clearer awareness of the historical and
cultural developments of the 'erotic' and simultaneously explore
cross-disciplinary perspectives on its current forms and
manifestations.
Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are welcome on any of the
following themes:
* the erotic and disability
* the erotic and crime
* the erotic and education
* the erotic in popular culture
* the erotic as translated from literature to the screen
* the erotic and its relationship to pornography and exploitation
* the erotic and gender
* the erotic and the eroticised or de-eroticised body
* the erotic: absence, control and excess
* the erotic and sexual representation
* the erotic in media - film, print, tv, internet
* the erotic and (neo-)colonialism
* the erotic as the exotic
* the erotic and the phenomenological
This is only an indicative list; papers will considered on other related themes.
Papers are also solicited for two special sessions which will be held
in common with a second research project running at the same time
entitled Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring
Evil. Papers dealing with themes of monsters, horror, sexuality and
the erotic are encouraged across all disciplines and areas; indicative
examples could include 'monstrous sexualities' (bestiality,
paedophilia), or the eroticisation of the monster in horror genres
(Dracula, for example), or the representation of the erotic and sex as
horrible and/or demonic.
Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts
should be submitted by Friday 28th January 2005. If your paper is
accepted for presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft paper
should be submitted by Friday 15th April 2005.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to both the Organising Joint
Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats.
Dr Jones Irwin
St Patrick's College
Dublin
Ireland
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Dr Rob Fisher
c/o Learning Solutions
Priory House
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
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The conference is part of a larger series of ongoing conferences
entitled 'Critical Issues', which aim to bring together people from
different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be
published as an ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for and presented
at this conference will be published in a hard copy themed volume. An
eBook and one themed volume is in press from previous meetings of this
project.
For further details about the project please go to:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/erotic/er.htm
For further details about the conference please go to:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/erotic/er2/cfp2.htm
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