| Datum |
23-24 november 2017 |
| Locatie |
Ghent University |
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Thursday, 23 November 2017 |
| 13:00 |
Welcome and opening remarks |
| Section 1: Transformations of Sexuality in Pre-Modernity |
| 13:15 |
Keynote 1: Giulia Sissa (Los Angeles/Paris): Nova corpora. Amorous Re-Embodiments in Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
| 14:15 |
Coffee break |
| 14:30 |
Chiara Thumiger (Berlin/Warwick): Astrology and Pathologised Sex: The Creation of Sexual Disorders in the Early Centuries of our Era.
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| 15:15 |
Marco Formisano (Ghent): Masochism, Instinct, and Antiquity. Leopold von Sacher- Masoch’s Venus in Furs.
|
| 16:00 |
Coffee break |
| Section 2: Instinct and Desire in the 18th and 19th Centuries |
| 16:15 |
Jan Vanvelk (Leuven): Economies of Instinct: Science Fiction and the Long Nineteenth Century |
| 17:00 |
Anke Gilleir (Leuven): Female Sovereignty and Perverse Sexuality in 18th and 19th Centuries Literature |
| 17:45 |
Coffee break |
| 18:15 |
Keynote 2: Patricia Mac Cormack (Cambridge): How does the Humanimal Desire? |
| 20:30 |
Dinner |
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Friday, 24 November 2017 |
| Section 3: Pornography and Monstrous Sexuality in 20th Century Literature |
| 9:00 |
Karen Van Hove (Leuven): Pornographic Metamorphosis in Stories by C.C. Krijgelmans and Willem G. van Maanen |
| 9:45 |
Gunther Martens (Ghent): On Automats and Affects in German Postwar Literature |
| 10:30 |
Coffee break |
| 10:45 |
Petra Broomans (Groningen): Desire, sexuality and the Abominable Other in Kerstin Ekman’s novels |
| Section 4: Science and Sexuality in Contemporary Literature and Film |
| 11:30 |
Keynote 3: Line Henriksen (Copenhagen): In the Company of Ghosts |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 |
Bart Eeckhout (Antwerpen): Queer Animals: Learning from Rebecca Brown’s The Dogs and Jaime Manrique’s Latin Moon in Manhattan
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| 14:15 |
Marco Caracciolo (Ghent): Sex, Science, and Metaphor in Contemporary “Lab Lit” |
| 15:00 |
Coffee break |
| 15:15 |
Sophie Wennerscheid (Ghent): The Future of Desire. Representations of Man-Machine Intimate Relationships in Contemporary Science Fiction Literature and Film
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| 16:00 |
Concluding remarks |
