The organisers will welcome proposals for 20-minute papers in English responding to the above.

Suggested (merely indicative) topics include:

• love and sex in literature and/or the arts – release and celebration;

• love and sex in literature and/or the arts – oppression and pathos;

• intimacy, creativity and repression: censorship;

• the ethics and politics of intimacy: private and public in literature and/or the arts;

• intimacy and the theatre: stage business;

• intimacy on screen: evolving ethics and aesthetics;

• intimacy and the politics of translation;

• intimacy and the politics of adaptation;

• intimacy and life writing;

• love, sex and museum cultures: the ethics and politics of exposure;

• love, sex and the evolving media: from print to digital platforms.