suggested topics
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.