FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for Abstracts: March 1, 2010
THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES:
3rd Biennial International, Multidisciplinary Conference: "EROS
2010"
May 21-22, 2010
Nipissing University Muskoka Campus, Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada (map)
www.humanconditionseries.com
Dear Colleague,
There still is time for you to present a paper
at this dynamic conference featuring Luce Irigaray as Keynote Speaker. We
welcome presentations on the concept of EROS—in the life of individuals and
domain of culture—from anthropological, sociological, psychological,
philosophical, political and religious perspectives.
A COMPLETE
DESCRIPTION OF THE CONFERENCE—WITH SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR YOUR
PROPOSAL—APPEARS BELOW.
Please submit a working title, a
ONE-PAGE ABSTRACT (300-400 words) as an email attachment, and a short
biography to Professor Toivo Koivukoski at [log in to unmask]
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACT: MARCH 1, 2010.
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: MARCH 15, 2010.
PRESENTERS ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT A 10-15 page summary paper by APRIL 15
and to register for the conference.
Keynote Speaker: Luce Irigaray
- Live
via satellite from Paris, Irigaray will present her view on the bonds
of love and how relations must be restored if we are to save ourselves
and the earth from annihilation.
Other Featured Speakers
- Tina Chanter is the author of Time, Death and the Feminine:
Levinas with Heidegger, and The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the
Nature of Difference.
- Shannon Bell is a feminist philosopher
and author of
Writing and Rewriting the Prostitute Body.
- Gad Horowitz is a distinguished theorist
and author of Repression
in Psychoanalytic Theory: Freud, Reich and Marcuse.
- Gary Kinsman is a queer liberation
activist and scholar, author of The
Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities.
- Sal Renshaw is the author of The Subject of Love: Hélène
Cixous and the Feminine Divine.
We
are looking forward to receiving your abstract.
Best
regards,
Richard
Koenigsberg
P.
S. Nipissing University in Bracebridge is north of Toronto. Shuttle service
and other transportation from Toronto are available.
CONFERENCE THEME: "EROS"
Description of the Conference
Though a human
nature may not exist, there is comfort in the notion that a unifying force
subsists within all humankind: the will to live. Sigmund Freud named the
driving impulse Eros. If humankind does possess, as a matter of our
continuance as a species, an impulse for life—a drive to overcome all
adversity in order to reproduce itself—what does this say of the human
condition? The Human Condition Series invites you to consider the concept
of Eros, and to share original and revisited thoughts that transcend
traditional disciplinary boundaries. We encourage expressions about how
culture, habit, language, science and art, embody, remedy or fail Eros.
Without prescription, we urge theorizations and analyses which seek to look
beyond the here and now towards the possibilities to come.
Suggested Themes for Your Abstract
- The
concept of Eros in the work and scholarship of Luce Irigaray
- Heroines
and Heroes of Eros
- The
Eros of War
- The
Eros of Motherhood
- Representation,
construction, reproduction or analysis of Eros
- Subject/Identity
formation and constructions of gender, sex and sexuality
- Eros
in history and literature
- Categories
of normativity, disorder, pathology or deviance in desire
- Eros
as nature, power, cosmology, mythology, and society
- Eros
and the transformation of consciousness, near-death and dreamlike
states
- Sacred
marriage, immortal/mortal love
- Sex
tourism, sex trafficking
- From
Eros as mythos to Eros as logos
- The
sensuous in the human world
- Eros
and Gaia in the marketing of holistic healing
- Contemporary
Families and Eros
- Eros
in women’s literature as a distinct tradition
- The
role of Eros in different religious and spiritual traditions
- Semiotic
approaches to Eros and culture, place, space, time
Please submit a working title, a
ONE-PAGE ABSTRACT (300-400 words) as an email attachment, and a short biography
to Professor Toivo Koivukoski at [log in to unmask]
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACT: MARCH 1, 2010.
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: MARCH 15, 2010.
PRESENTERS ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT A 10-15 page summary paper by APRIL 15
and to register for the conference.
Publication of Papers
As with previous Human Condition Series conferences,
we expect to produce a book based on selected presentations. Presenters
will have until June 25, 2010 to prepare their manuscripts for submission
to the review process.
About The Human Condition Series
This
conference is part of a larger series of ongoing, international,
multidisciplinary conferences—run under the banner of The Human Condition
Series—that brings together people from a variety of disciplines to assess
a singular topic from artistic, cinematic, literary, ethical, social,
political, philosophical, psychological and religious perspectives. We
encourage you to share innovative ideas and new ways of thinking and
acting. Proposals will be considered on any related theme and we especially
welcome papers, reports, works-in-progress, workshops and sessions. This
year's theme is EROS.
THE
HUMAN CONDITION SERIES: 3rd Biennial International, Multidisciplinary
Conference: “EROS 2010”, May 21-22, 2010
Nipissing University
Muskoka Campus, Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada (map)
For
information on Nipissing University, please go to:
http://www.nipissingu.ca/muskoka/
Bracebridge is north
of Toronto. Shuttle service and other transportation are available.
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