2nd Global Conference

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Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers

Monday 9th May - Wednesday 11th May 2005
Budapest, Hungary

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.