The Erotic: 2005 Conference Programme

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

The 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 (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (v.1.5)

Monday 9th May 2005
From 09.00
Registration

10.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Stephen Morris and Jones Irwin

10.15
Session 1: Erotic and Politics
Chair: Jones Irwin

Anna McHugh
The Erotic and the Nation State

Sumita Chakravarty
The Erotic Imagination: Visual Technologies and Social Change in Egypt and India

Alison M. Moore
Visions of Sadomasochism as a Fascist Erotic

11.45
Lunch

14.00
Session 2: Erotic, Culture and the Self
Chair: Karen Boyle

Ovidiu Aniculăese
Manipulative Romances or Bringing Women Back Home

Veronika Czapary
Narcissism and Eroticism

Anna Kiernan
Power, Pleasure and Performativity in Chick-Lit’s New Literary Heroines

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 3: Erotic and Decadent Bodies
Chair: Greg Tuck

Glennys Howarth/Una MacConville
Purity and Danger: Blurring the Boundaries between Death and Sex

Evangelos Roumeliotis
Decadent desires: The erotic in the movement of Decadence

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.45
Wine Reception
(with the Monsters and the Monstrous delegates)

Tuesday 10th May 2005
09.00 Concurrent Session
Session 4A: Setting or Breaking Limits
Chair: Paul Reynolds

Péter Szil
The Erotic and its Relationship to Pornography and Exploitation: The Trap of Pornography as Sexual Education

Mona Vintila
The Erotic of Menopausal Women

Emily McMehen
Auto Erotica: Sex, Death and the Automated Landscape

Session 4B: Erotic, Art and Imagination
Chair: Anna McHugh

Young-Ae Kim
Searching for Women’s Place in Erotic Art

Christian W. Denker
Aesthetic Imagination and Sexual Experience

Natalie Mault
Erotic Overtones used by the Socialist, Realist painter Gustave Courbet

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 5: Erotic and Film
Chair: Karen Boyle

Michelle Gompf
Charismatic, Cannibal Doctor: The Erotic Pull of Hannibal Lecter

Olivia Macassey
Carnal Knowledge for Every Body

Eloise Govier
The Pubescent Nude: Art against Repression?

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Joint Session: Monstrous Erotic (with Monsters Conference)
Chair: Nane Cantatore

Paul Reynolds
Monstrous Sexualities: Sexual Ethics in a Cold Climate

Suzana Marjanic
Zoocentrically About Bestial Porno and Erotic Zoophilia

Sara Cohen Shabot
Towards a Grotesque Phenomenology of the Erotic

15:30
Tea

16:00
Joint Session: Erotic Monstrous (with Monsters Conference)
Chair: Richard Tilbury

Greg Tuck
Of Monsters, Masturbators, and Markets: Autoerotic Desire, Sexual Exchange, and the Cinematic Serial Killer

Dianne Bunch
George Bataille’s Story of the Eye: The Monstrous as Sacred Text

Julie Miess
The Monstrous and Gender: Attack of the Female Monster-Hero

17:30
Sessions end

Wednesday 11th May 2005
09.30
Session 6: Erotic, Photography and Literature
Chair: Dianne Bunch

Ingrid Pruss
The Theology of the Erotic in the Photographic Art of
Joel-Peter Witkin

Danial Sorin Vintila
Erotic and Trivial in the Eastern-European Literature

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 7: From Prostitution to S and M
Chair: Péter Szil

Karen Boyle
Documenting the Sex Industry: Bodily Confessions and Investigations

Victoria Price
“Worse than the monster bred on th’banks of Nyle”: The Discourse of the Prostitute and the Formation of Women’s Sexuality in Early Modern England

12.00
Development Meeting

12.30
Conference Close



2nd Global Conference Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers
Monday 9th May - Wednesday 11th May 2005 Budapest, Hungary The 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 (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation. Final Conference Programme (v.1.5) Monday 9th May 2005 From 09.00 Registration 10.00 Welcome and Opening Words Stephen Morris and Jones Irwin 10.15 Session 1: Erotic and Politics Chair: Jones Irwin Anna McHugh The Erotic and the Nation State Sumita Chakravarty The Erotic Imagination: Visual Technologies and Social Change in Egypt and India Alison M. Moore Visions of Sadomasochism as a Fascist Erotic 11.45 Lunch 14.00 Session 2: Erotic, Culture and the Self Chair: Karen Boyle Ovidiu Aniculăese Manipulative Romances or Bringing Women Back Home Veronika Czapary Narcissism and Eroticism Anna Kiernan Power, Pleasure and Performativity in Chick-Lit’s New Literary Heroines 15.30 Tea 16.00 Session 3: Erotic and Decadent Bodies Chair: Greg Tuck Glennys Howarth/Una MacConville Purity and Danger: Blurring the Boundaries between Death and Sex Evangelos Roumeliotis Decadent desires: The erotic in the movement of Decadence 17.30 Notices and Announcements 17.45 Wine Reception (with the Monsters and the Monstrous delegates) Tuesday 10th May 2005 09.00 Concurrent Session Session 4A: Setting or Breaking Limits Chair: Paul Reynolds Péter Szil The Erotic and its Relationship to Pornography and Exploitation: The Trap of Pornography as Sexual Education Mona Vintila The Erotic of Menopausal Women Emily McMehen Auto Erotica: Sex, Death and the Automated Landscape Session 4B: Erotic, Art and Imagination Chair: Anna McHugh Young-Ae Kim Searching for Women’s Place in Erotic Art Christian W. Denker Aesthetic Imagination and Sexual Experience Natalie Mault Erotic Overtones used by the Socialist, Realist painter Gustave Courbet 10.30 Coffee 11.00 Session 5: Erotic and Film Chair: Karen Boyle Michelle Gompf Charismatic, Cannibal Doctor: The Erotic Pull of Hannibal Lecter Olivia Macassey Carnal Knowledge for Every Body Eloise Govier The Pubescent Nude: Art against Repression? 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Joint Session: Monstrous Erotic (with Monsters Conference) Chair: Nane Cantatore Paul Reynolds Monstrous Sexualities: Sexual Ethics in a Cold Climate Suzana Marjanic Zoocentrically About Bestial Porno and Erotic Zoophilia Sara Cohen Shabot Towards a Grotesque Phenomenology of the Erotic 15:30 Tea 16:00 Joint Session: Erotic Monstrous (with Monsters Conference) Chair: Richard Tilbury Greg Tuck Of Monsters, Masturbators, and Markets: Autoerotic Desire, Sexual Exchange, and the Cinematic Serial Killer Dianne Bunch George Bataille’s Story of the Eye: The Monstrous as Sacred Text Julie Miess The Monstrous and Gender: Attack of the Female Monster-Hero 17:30 Sessions end Wednesday 11th May 2005 09.30 Session 6: Erotic, Photography and Literature Chair: Dianne Bunch Ingrid Pruss The Theology of the Erotic in the Photographic Art of Joel-Peter Witkin Danial Sorin Vintila Erotic and Trivial in the Eastern-European Literature 10.30 Coffee 11.00 Session 7: From Prostitution to S and M Chair: Péter Szil Karen Boyle Documenting the Sex Industry: Bodily Confessions and Investigations Victoria Price “Worse than the monster bred on th’banks of Nyle”: The Discourse of the Prostitute and the Formation of Women’s Sexuality in Early Modern England 12.00 Development Meeting 12.30 Conference Close