CALL FOR PAPERS
Art and Pornography; Obscenity and Voyeurism
INSCRIPTIONS '04: an arts and culture conference and festival
at Eastern Mediterranean University
in Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
June 3rd- 4th, 2004
Please visit http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/index_conference.html for more
information.
The seventh annual Literature and Humanities Conference will be held at
Eastern Mediterranean University as part of Inscriptions '04, an Arts and
Culture festival taking place at the university and environs between June
3rd - 4th, 2004. In conjunction with a wide selection of music, performance
and film events, discussion- friendly papers are being solicited for our
symposium. Although we will be publishing selected presentations from
Inscriptions '04, we encourage participants to move away from the standard
prewritten, "finished paper" format, towards a more open-ended presentation,
which will provoke and contribute to a genuine exchange of research and
ideas during the panel sessions. Our aim is to create a forum and publishing
venue for inspiring work in progress, where the exchange of ideas with
fellow academics participating in the conference will contribute to the
final form of participants' work.
With this in mind, we invite papers and/or presentations that examine the
current status of critical thinking on art and pornography, obscenity and
voyeurism. Possible topics might include but are not limited to:
- body art, tattooing, piercing and mutilation
- erotic subjectivities
- gym culture as voyeurism
- Hustler vs. Playboy: real, hyper-real or dissimulation?
- reassessing de Sade
- ghosts, ghouls, vampires, succubi and incubi
- Bataille, Baudrillard and seduction
- foreign bodies: romanticising the sex of the other
- Richard Kern, Jeff Koons, Robert Mapplethorpe
- Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and erotic photography
- fashion photography and the aestheticized body
- Foucault, AIDS and 'the death of the author'
- pornography and history
- pornography and its transcultural manifestations
- pornography and critical-legal studies
- cyberporn and digital voyeurism
- art and porn: the history of the female nude
- art vs. porn: "I know it when I see it"
- homoeroticism in literature and the visual arts
- censorship and societal norms
- religious "inscription" and the body
Please send 250 word abstracts by 31st January, 2004 to:
rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr
or
robert.dalonzo@emu.edu.tr
and please visit http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/index_conference.html for more
information.
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