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.1.4b)
Friday 16th November 2007
from 09.00
Registration
10.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Paul Reynolds
10.30
Session 1: Diverse Erotics
Chair: Paul Reynolds
Sport, Pleasure and the Body: 'You Cannot be Serious!'
Ian Wellard
And They Called It Puppy Love: Children and Erotic Love
David White
Hospitality and Eroticism
Tom Selwyn & Hazel Andrews
12.00
Lunch
14.00
Session 2: Erotic Philosophy
Chair: Luisa Orza
Sex and Philosophy
Bob Brecher
Erotic Actions vs. Sexual Happenings
Mehdi Nasrin
A Short History of Masochism
Ben Jacob
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 3: Erotic Love
Chair: Bob Brecher
The Comeback of Erotic Love
Aaron Ben-Zeév
Friends and Lovers
Diane Klein
17.30
Notices/Announcements
Wine Reception
Saturday 17th November 2007
09.00
Session 4: Erotic Representations
Chair: David White
“Tickling Rallery”: Eroticizing the Stage in English Restoration Comedy (1660-1700)
Denis Lagae-Devoldere
“Ring My Bell: ‘Breaking the Waves’ (1996) as Lars von Trier’s Hagiographic Pornography, or Pornographic Hagiography
Eric Kristensson
Who's Afraid of the Indian Lesbian Film?
Aneeta Rajendran
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 5: Textual Erotics
Chair: Griet Vandermassen
The Working Body as Homoerotic Desire in Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory
Spencer Herrera
Subjugation, Subdual and Shôjo: Sadism in Japanese Erotic Comic Books
Luke Sharp
Phaedrus and Relation: Toward an Erotics of Reading
Kurt Brandhorst
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 6: Lessons in Desire
Chair: Aneeta Rajendran
Wisdom of Love: On Time, Desire and Philosophy in Plato and Irigary
Fanny Söderbäck
Lessons of Love: Between Irigaray and Diotima
Rachel Jones
15.00
Coffee
15.30
Session 7: Workshop
A Well-Caned Arse
Luisa Orza and Paul Reynolds
17.00
Sessions End
Sunday 18th November 2007
09.00
Session 8: The Erotic Gaze
Chair: Fanny Söderbäck
Woman as Erotic Object: A Darwinian Inquiry into the Male Gaze
Griet Vandermassen
Death and the Maiden: Vanitas and Voluptas, Transience and the Erotic in Hans Baldung Grien
Bozhena Anastassiades
10.00
Coffee
10.30
Session 9:Erotic Postures
Chair: Rachel Jones
Pornography and Loneliness – A Happy Match
Hagai Dagan
How to Love Oneself
Alison Assiter
Returning to Bataille : Economy of Desire in Informational Society
Roman Mineev
12.00
Development Meeting and Closing Words
12.30
Conference Ends