Update: Deadline and conference dates have changed
----Dangerous Desire: Sexing the Academy (grad) (1/29; 4/16-4/17)
We are now accepting submissions for our twelfth annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference entitled "Dangerous Desire: Sexing the Academy." It will be held on April 16-17, 1999 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. THE DEADLINE IS JAN. 29, 1999.
As some college students make jokes about having to ask permission for a kiss, others argue that so-called obscene art is a vital part of the curriculum as they study the NEA Four. Down the hall, instructors battle with students who quote Biblical support for social issues papers and graduate students do or do not date their students.
When 60 Minutes reported on gay and lesbian studies in the academy, their broadcast seemed more concerned with alarming middle America that perverts were taking over the more moral and more traditional curriculum than with reporting on developments within a relatively new area of scholarship. Such events raise the question of the relationships between desire, sex, and academia.
Shifts in many disciplines throughout the university, such as the increase of interdisciplinary work and the emergence of fields which question the nature of the canon as well as appropriate areas of study, may be responsible, either for an actual change in what scholars are saying about sex, or for a change in how the world outside of academia perceives the world of scholarly inquiry. How do academics look at the eroticization of children or the questions of power raised by Sadism/Masochism? Is the academy different from the "real world"? Why are sexually dangerous or taboo topics such popular areas of study now? Or have such areas of study always been popular, but have only been discovered by mainstream media recently?
We welcome abstracts from a variety of disciplines which examine the relationship between the study of sex and sexuality and the academy. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
English vs. Cultural Studies: Is one more perverse than the other? Professional Rules of Sex: Faculty/Student relationships Perverting the Canon Romantic Narratives: Romances, the erotics of reading and narrative The Study of Censorship: Banned books throughout history Academic Prostitution Construction of the Erotic/Innocent Child Sadism/Masochism and Bondage/Discipline Sexual Mutilation and "Self-Abuse": Piercing, Scarification, Circumcision, etc. Abjection Race and Academic Sex Desire and Fantasy Violence and Sex Intergenerational Relationships Fandom and the Academy: Desire, adoration, and the academic star system Historical Constructions of Sex, Literary Sex Incest and the Academy Gossip Sex and class Porn Wars Performance Studies, Art, and the Obscene The NEA SUNY New Paltz The Conference and the Debates 60 Minutes Does Queer Studies?: Mainstream Calls for Curriculum
Please send a one-page abstract to: Jennifer Morrow Department of English University of Southern California University Park Campus Los Angeles, CA 90007 jmorrow@usc.edu (626) 796-7550
ALL EMAILED ABSTRACTS SHOULD BE SENT IN A TEXT-ONLY FORMAT.
*********SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 29 January 1999*********
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