italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
The following international conference may be of interest to
colleagues working in Italian Studies (medieval poetics; neoplatonism;
cinematic representation etc..). The Network is a truly
multidisciplinary forum of debate and enquiry.
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LOVE IN OUR WORLD
An international conference convened by the 'Research Network on Love',
The University of Manchester, 27-28 November 2008.
Keynote speaker: Leela Gandhi (University of Chicago)
Call for Papers (and other Contributions)
As a concept, experience, ethic, and subject of study, love remains
one of the most elusive phenomena. Despite millennia of study and
writing on love, it is difficult ? if not impossible ? to define what
love is, what love does, or what love means. Yet we continue to try
to make sense of its place in our lives and in our worlds, and to
understand how it shapes us both as individuals and as communities ?
whether we understand love as an abstract universal ethic, or a
contingent, contextual way of being social in the world. Few would
deny that love ? for better and worse ? animates, shapes, and
motivates our beliefs, our relationships, and our endeavours. And
while it may not be possible to say what love is, we wonder still at
how love works ? what shapes it might take. It is, perhaps, the
question of how we see love working in and on our lives (professional,
personal, and political) that provides the conceptual space for us to
give shape to a concept that is, essentially, shapeless.
'Love in Our World' is a multidisciplinary conference through which
participants will attempt to trace some of the contours of love in
their professional and artistic work, in what might be termed a desire
to give expression to our understandings of love and its impact on and
meaning for our lives. Love in Our World asks participants to share
their work on love or, indeed, in love, in order to consider the
significance of love and its impact on who we are as academics,
performance artists, musicians, painters or photographers, poets,
teachers and educators, counsellors, clergy or faith-based
professionals, political leaders, students, and activists.
We welcome proposals from all areas of academic study or professional
life that
speak to the concept of love. Traditional academic paper or panel proposals
exploring diverse questions surrounding love are welcome, and we strongly
encourage photographers, artists, creative writers, musicians, and other
professionals to share their work as it relates to love. Over the
course of two days, we envision a truly multi-faceted collection of
presentations and exhibitions on how love works to shape who we are
and what we do.
Love in Our World is organised by the Research Network on Love at The
University
of Manchester, an interdisciplinary research group comprised of over
80 scholars and postgraduate students from across the Faculty of
Humanities and beyond. The
group is currently convened by Maja Zehfuss, Cristina Masters and
Véronique Pin-
Fat. If you wish to participate in Love in Our World, please send us
your abstract of about 300 words (or equivalent description of your
intended contribution) by 10 April 2008 at
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For more information on the group and the conference see our website at
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/research/rnl/.
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Prof. Stephen J. Milner,
Serena Professor of Italian,
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures,
The University of Manchester,
Oxford Rd.,
Manchester,
M13 9PL
Tel: +44(0)161 275 3129
Email: [log in to unmask]
www.llc.manchester.ac.uk
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