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Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality
Call for Participation 2016
Wednesday 6th July - Friday 8th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
The Kama Sutra; Tantric Yogic; Spiritual BDSM; Christian Erotic Exercises:
although religious practice is commonly thought to inhibit sexual
expression, many classic religious traditions link eroticism and
spirituality in the quest for the divine. For instance, traditional
Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, and Jewish texts all render spiritual awakening
in terms of self-abandonment or transcendence that is frequently equated
with sexual ecstasy, such as in references to the human bride ravished by
the Divine Bridegroom. Contemporary Christian poets, such as Scott Cairns,
insist that genuine spirituality is attained only through the
"recovery" of the body and its divine secrets. Indeed, mystical
experience itself is often expressed in terms of sexual union.
Yet, the 'sinful' pleasures of the flesh and the purity of divine love do
not always make for easy bed-fellows. All too often, body and spirit are
considered in opposition, if not in open conflict with each other, leading
to the images of either complete abstinence on the one hand or total
indulgence on the other.
This conference aims to create a space for inter-disciplinary explorations
of the commonalities of sexuality and spirituality. Topics for possible
presentation include, but are not limited to:
~ Intimacy, love, and bodies
~ Sexuality as divine expression
~ Pleasure and the body
~ Desires, yearnings, longings, lusts
~ Sexual acts as spiritual expression
~ Sexuality, spirituality and the religious traditions of the world
~ Exploring sexual and erotic nuances and overtones of traditional
religious and liturgical language and experiences
~ Building interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies in sexuality and
spirituality
~ Interactions of spirituality with traditional regulations surrounding
sexuality
~ Artistic representations of erotic and mystical experiences
~ "Reading between the lines:" Sexual, erotic and mystical substrata of
folklore/fairy tales/mythology
~ The "dark night of the soul" as expressions of sexual and erotic
longings
~ LGBT explorations of language to describe mystical experience
~ Genealogies of virtues and vices in sexual situations or using gendered
language
~ The impact of sexual violence on spiritual experience
~ The impact of spiritual violence on sexual experience
~ (Spiritual) Exercises to overcome sexual trauma
~ The impact of gender on mystical experience and spiritual language
~ Transgender spiritual experience
~ Medieval spiritual guidebooks and contemporary sexual theories/practices
~ BDSM: fetish experience, language and spirituality
~ Trans- and inter-cultural (poetic) descriptions of erotic/mystical
experience
~ Religious encounters with "modernity" and secular sexual mores: can
they influence the other?
~ Forming social, public and institutional policies
~ Religious advocacy, religious education and research
The Advisory Group welcomes the submission of proposals for short
workshops, practitioner-based activities, performances, and pre-formed
panels. We particularly welcome short film screenings; photographic essays;
installations; interactive talks and alternative presentation styles that
encourage engagement.
Further details and information can be found at the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/exploring-sexuality-and-spirituality/call-for-participation/
Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality project will be meeting at the
same time as two other projects: Diaspora and Visual Literacies as Visual
Imageries. We welcome submissions which cross the divide between two or
even all three project areas. If you would like to be considered for a
cross project session, please mark your submission "Crossover
Submission".
What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be
submitted by Friday 26th February 2016.
All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind)
conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team. In
practice our procedures usually entail that by the time a proposal is
accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple reviewed.
You will be notified of the panel's decision by Friday 11th March 2016.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your
contribution should be submitted by Friday 3rd June 2016.
Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad formats with the following
information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme,
c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10
keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality Abstract
Submission
Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs:
Organising Chairs:
Stephen Morris: smmorris58@yahoo.com <mailto:smmorris58@yahoo.com>
Rob Fisher: ess@inter-disciplinary.net <mailto:ess@inter-disciplinary.net>
This event is part of a new emerging inclusive interdisciplinary research
and publishing project which overlaps projects working in the areas of
Sexuality and Spirituality. It aims to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which
are innovative and exciting.
It is anticipated that a number of publishing options will arise from the
work of the project generally and from the meeting of Exploring Sexuality
and Spirituality stream in particular. Minimally there will be a digital
eBook resulting from the conference meeting. Other options, some of which
might include digital publications, paperbacks and a journal will be
explored during the meeting itself.
Ethos
Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and
professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend
for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this
commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. Please note:
Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
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-- From: "ess@inter-disciplinary.net" <ess@inter-disciplinary.net>
Date: Jan 20, 2016 2:35 AM
Subject: CFP: Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality
To: <honey.honour@gmail.com>
Cc:
Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality
Call for Participation 2016
Wednesday 6th July - Friday 8th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
The Kama Sutra; Tantric Yogic; Spiritual BDSM; Christian Erotic Exercises:
although religious practice is commonly thought to inhibit sexual
expression, many classic religious traditions link eroticism and
spirituality in the quest for the divine. For instance, traditional
Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, and Jewish texts all render spiritual awakening
in terms of self-abandonment or transcendence that is frequently equated
with sexual ecstasy, such as in references to the human bride ravished by
the Divine Bridegroom. Contemporary Christian poets, such as Scott Cairns,
insist that genuine spirituality is attained only through the
"recovery" of the body and its divine secrets. Indeed, mystical
experience itself is often expressed in terms of sexual union.
Yet, the 'sinful' pleasures of the flesh and the purity of divine love do
not always make for easy bed-fellows. All too often, body and spirit are
considered in opposition, if not in open conflict with each other, leading
to the images of either complete abstinence on the one hand or total
indulgence on the other.
This conference aims to create a space for inter-disciplinary explorations
of the commonalities of sexuality and spirituality. Topics for possible
presentation include, but are not limited to:
~ Intimacy, love, and bodies
~ Sexuality as divine expression
~ Pleasure and the body
~ Desires, yearnings, longings, lusts
~ Sexual acts as spiritual expression
~ Sexuality, spirituality and the religious traditions of the world
~ Exploring sexual and erotic nuances and overtones of traditional
religious and liturgical language and experiences
~ Building interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies in sexuality and
spirituality
~ Interactions of spirituality with traditional regulations surrounding
sexuality
~ Artistic representations of erotic and mystical experiences
~ "Reading between the lines:" Sexual, erotic and mystical substrata of
folklore/fairy tales/mythology
~ The "dark night of the soul" as expressions of sexual and erotic
longings
~ LGBT explorations of language to describe mystical experience
~ Genealogies of virtues and vices in sexual situations or using gendered
language
~ The impact of sexual violence on spiritual experience
~ The impact of spiritual violence on sexual experience
~ (Spiritual) Exercises to overcome sexual trauma
~ The impact of gender on mystical experience and spiritual language
~ Transgender spiritual experience
~ Medieval spiritual guidebooks and contemporary sexual theories/practices
~ BDSM: fetish experience, language and spirituality
~ Trans- and inter-cultural (poetic) descriptions of erotic/mystical
experience
~ Religious encounters with "modernity" and secular sexual mores: can
they influence the other?
~ Forming social, public and institutional policies
~ Religious advocacy, religious education and research
The Advisory Group welcomes the submission of proposals for short
workshops, practitioner-based activities, performances, and pre-formed
panels. We particularly welcome short film screenings; photographic essays;
installations; interactive talks and alternative presentation styles that
encourage engagement.
Further details and information can be found at the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/exploring-sexuality-and-spirituality/call-for-participation/
Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality project will be meeting at the
same time as two other projects: Diaspora and Visual Literacies as Visual
Imageries. We welcome submissions which cross the divide between two or
even all three project areas. If you would like to be considered for a
cross project session, please mark your submission "Crossover
Submission".
What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be
submitted by Friday 26th February 2016.
All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind)
conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team. In
practice our procedures usually entail that by the time a proposal is
accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple reviewed.
You will be notified of the panel's decision by Friday 11th March 2016.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your
contribution should be submitted by Friday 3rd June 2016.
Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad formats with the following
information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme,
c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10
keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality Abstract
Submission
Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs:
Organising Chairs:
Stephen Morris: smmorris58@yahoo.com <mailto:smmorris58@yahoo.com>
Rob Fisher: ess@inter-disciplinary.net <mailto:ess@inter-disciplinary.net>
This event is part of a new emerging inclusive interdisciplinary research
and publishing project which overlaps projects working in the areas of
Sexuality and Spirituality. It aims to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which
are innovative and exciting.
It is anticipated that a number of publishing options will arise from the
work of the project generally and from the meeting of Exploring Sexuality
and Spirituality stream in particular. Minimally there will be a digital
eBook resulting from the conference meeting. Other options, some of which
might include digital publications, paperbacks and a journal will be
explored during the meeting itself.
Ethos
Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and
professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend
for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this
commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. Please note:
Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
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Dr Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
inter-disciplinary.net
Inter-Disciplinary.Net is accredited by the British Accreditation Council
for Independent Further and Higher Education as a Short Course Provider
Registered in England No: 05494488
Harvestway House, 28 High Street
Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6RA
Tel: 01993 882087
Please note: The inter-disciplinary.net office is open from 9.30am to
1.30pm Monday to Friday. We check our email once per day at 10.00am UK time
- and we will endeavour to reply to you in a timely fashion.
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