5th Global Conference: The Erotic - Exploring Critical Issues

6 to 8 November 2009
Salzburg, Austria
The erotic remains a tantalisingly difficult concept to describe or delineate – a quality we all understand in our subjective experience and affective reflections but find difficult to bound or delimit in our intellectual work. Whilst most engagements with the erotic recognise a relationship between the erotic and the sexual, it is clear that the erotic presents a far more complex and discursive space within which the phenomenological, aesthetic, scientific and normative understanding of issues of human sensuality, sexuality, desire and taste can be articulated. This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project, now calling for participation in its fifth conference, aims to explore the challenging and aradoxical nature of the 'erotic'.

It has three overarching aims and emphases for this conference:

* To explore the relationship between the erotic, the exotic and the aesthetic in respect of the range and diversity of sexual identities, relations, orientations, acts and behaviours
* To explore the erotic as an ethical, political, social and philosophical terrain of
study with particular reference to diversity in culture and the post-colonial voice in eroticism
* To explore the erotic in its many represents in the arts, music, literature, film
and other cultural mediums

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