1st Global Conference

Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

The draft programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Programme

Thursday 13th May
From 12.00pm
Registration

2.00pm
Opening Words
Rob Fisher & Jones Irwin

2.15pm
Keynote Address - Chair: Jones Irwin
Alphonso Lingis
Two Functions of Erotic Valuation

3.45pm
Tea

4.15pm
Session 1 : The Erotic, Film and the Novel
Chair: Rob Fisher

Olivia Maccasey
Carnal Unknowing: The Structural Function of the Erotic in the Period Film

Koen De Temmerman
The Erotic in Rhetoric: The Erotic and the Ancient Greek Novel

Angela Donado-Otero
Eroticism in Contemporary Cuban Fiction: Mechanisms for Subversion and Resistance

5.45pm
Wine Reception

 

Friday 14th May
9.30am
Session 2 : The Erotic and Philosophy
Chair: Alphonso Lingis

Jones Irwin
On Georges Bataille’s Philosophy of Eros

Brendan Moran
Eros Thanatos in Benjamin’s Goethe’s Elective Affinities

11.00am
Coffee

11.30am
Session 3: Body Modification and Body Texts
Chair: Marina Novikova

Jennifer Collins
Metaphors, the Erotic and Survival

Andrew Feldmar
Dr Love and Mr Death

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 4: Erotics of Difference
Chair: Koen De Temmerman

Lorraine Markotic
The Erotics of Waiting

Chris L. Smith
Differential Mechanisms: Form, Matter and Sado-Masochism

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 5: Types of Erotic
Chair: Lorraine Markotic

Waltraud Ernst
Conceptualizations of the Erotic

Katarzyna Wieckowska
Dr Przemyslaw Zywiczynski
The erotic and the pornographic: an interdisciplinary perspective

5.30pm
Sessions End

Saturday 15th May
9.30am
Session 6: Eros, Myth and Religion
Chair: Andrew Feldmar

Peggy Manouka
Eros and Thanatos, Eros and War, Eros and Betrayal

John Nijjem
The Erotic and Ontotheology

11.00am
Coffee

11.30am
Session 7: Eros and the Feminine
Chair: Peggy Manouka

Terri Waddell
Anima Disavowal: Intimacy and Female Perversions

Marina Novikova
Erotic Conceptions of the Feminine in Russian Cultural Tradition

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 8: The Marxist and Aesthetic Erotic
Chair: Terrie Waddell

Paul Reynolds
Towards a Marxism of the Erotic: Some Initial Thoughts

A Showing of Un Chien Andalou [17 minute surrealist film by Salvador Dali/Luis Bunuel] followed by discussion.

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Development Meeting & Conference Close
Jones Irwin and Rob Fisher