Apologies for cross-posting.
Registration for the inter-disciplinary conference 'Sex and Nature: 1800-2018' (Exeter, 10 & 11 June 2019) is now open. The programme features a number of talks that will be of interest to colleagues in German Studies. You can find the full programme below or on our website http://rethinkingsexology.exeter.ac.uk/2018/12/sex-and-nature-1800-2018/ You can register for the conference using this link: https://store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/college-of-humanities/conferences/sex-and-nature-1800-2018
With best wishes,
Dr Ina Linge
Associate Research Fellow
University of Exeter
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Conference programme
Sex and Nature: 1800-2018
Day 1, Monday 10 JUNE 2019
9:00-9:15am Registration and coffee
9:15-9:30am Welcome by SARAH BEZAN and INA LINGE
9:30-10:30am Keynote: ASTRIDA NEIMANIS (University of Sydney): Toxic Erotics and Bad Ecosex
10:30-12:00pm Panel 1: Sex, Nature and Species
BEN PITCHER (University of Westminster): Neanderthal Sex and Trans-species Drag
ROSS BROOKS (Oxford Brookes University): Darwin’s Closet: Sex beyond Selection in The Descent of Man (1871)
LOUISE LOGAN (University of Strathclyde): Apes and Angels: The Representation of Pet Primates as Figures of Sexual Danger in the Illustrated Police News
12:00-12:45pm Lunch served in Garden Reception
12:45-2:15pm Panel 2: Plants and Sex(uality)
JOELA JACOBS (University of Arizona): Eradicating Desire Root and Branch: Vegetal Eroticism and Human Nature
SAM HAMPSON (University of Cambridge): The Other in the Garden: Derek Jarman’s ‘Modern Nature’
JOSEPHINE LINTON (University of Sussex): ‘We become with each other or not at all’: Gardening, Compost, and the Complicity of Relation in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night
2:15-2:45pm Coffee break, Garden Reception
2:45-4:45pm Panel 3: Sex and Nature, from Model to Desire
PANDORA SYPEREK (UCL): Siphonophore Sex: The Blaschka Glass Marine Invertebrates and Other Slippery Gender Models
KAZUKI YAMADA (University of Exeter/ University of Queensland): ‘A kind of homesickness for the state of the ovum’: sex, ageing, and death in the cellular ecosystems of the fin de siècle (1870-1930)
SARAH WADE (Independent): Sexy Beasts & Saving Wildlife: ‘Pornographic’ Ecology in Contemporary Art & Visual Culture
ANNEMARIE MÖNCH (University of Erfurt): Polyamorous Forests: Orgasmic Nature Writing in Algernon Blackwood’s The Man Whom The Trees Loved and The Touch of Pan
5:30-6:30pm Artist Showcase and Q&A with artist in residence AMY CUTLER (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Day 2, Tuesday 11 JUNE 2019
9:00-10:00am Keynote: GRETA LAFLEUR (Yale University): Sex, Outside
10-11:30am Panel 4: Sex, Nature and Modernism/Modernity
LAURA DOAN (University of Manchester): Queering the Natural: Lord Berners and His Circle
KATIE SUTTON (Australian National University): Approaching the Normal and the Natural in Fin-de-siècle German Sexology and Psychoanalysis
ELSA RICHARDSON (University of Strathclyde): Animal Passions and Natural Foods: Vegetarian Sexuality in the Humanitarian League
11:30-12:00pm Coffee break, Garden Reception
12:00-1:30pm Panel 5: Speculative Environments
TRYCIA BAZINET (Carleton University): The Chaos and Promiscuity in Speculate Geology: Post-Glacial Rebound of the Abitibi Lake
EVA HOFFMAN (Whitman College): Queer Futures: Reading Feminist Anthropocene Fiction in a Transnational and More-Than-Human World
KATHRIN BARTHA (Monash University/Goethe University): Reconsidering Evolution Beyond ‘Mother Nature’: Multi-species Sexual Appetite in Ellen van Neerven’s ‘Water’ (2015)
1:30-2:15pm Lunch served in Garden Reception
2:15-4:15pm Panel 6: Sex, Nature and Politics
IAN FLEISHMAN (University of Pennsylvania): Homoerotic Eco-Utopianism in Hitler Youth Films and ‘Boy Scout’ Porn
HANNAH BOAST (University of Birmingham): Theorising the Gay Frog
KIRSTEN LENG (University of Massachusetts Amherst) [via Skype]: Health, Nature, and Sexual Liberation: ‘Compulsory Able-bodiedness’ and the History of Sexology
TANYA BAKHMETYEVA (University of Rochester): Ecofeminism and the Carnivalesque: the Spatial Politics of Women’s Environmental Activism in Poland
4:15-5:00pm Final discussion and plans for publication
VENUE: The conference will take place in the Garden Room at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Exeter city centre, with one exception: Amy Cutler’s talk will take place in the Workshop Space, Exeter Phoenix (Gandy St).
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