Conference Program (Download)

All concurrent sessions will take place at the Muskoka Campus of Nipissing University. The keynote by Prof. Irigaray and roundtable discussion will be held in the lecture theatre. Prof. Chanter's keynote will be held at the banquet hall at the Riverside Inn.

Laptops are available in the Learning Commons Room for Conference-goers.

All class-rooms and seminar rooms are equipped with a computer, internet access, and audio-visual capabilities.

7.00-10.00

Wine and Cheese Reception (Muskoka Campus, Lakehouse)

Gallery opening — (Muskoka Campus, Fine Arts Room)

Featuring the works of Cara Judea Alhadeff, Björn Wiinblad, and North Bay area artists

Concurrent Sessions A

9.00-10.30

Panel 1: On the limits and possibilities of love 1 (Room 4)

Eros and life; Eros and love
Bert Olivier, bert.olivier@nmmu.ac.za
 
The Conversion of Eros into Compassion in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
Andrew Fuyarchuk, afuyarchuk@hotmail.com
 
Eros, Romance and Dead Ends
Leah Bradshaw, lbradshaw@brocku.ca

9.00-11.15 (with break)

Panel 2: Categories of normativity, disorder, pathology or deviance in desire (Room 1)

The Primal Scene Revisited:  Sasha Grey, Freud and Goethe
Dr.  James Bozzuto, drbozzuto@aol.com & Dr. Nandini Lee, nandinilee@hotmail.com

Psychoanalytic Theory and Japanese Guilt: Sexual Repression in the Japanese Context
Jermaine R. Gordon, gordonjr@indiana.edu
 
~break~

There is no Such Thing as Perversion: Autoerotism, Addiction and Trauma
Anna Janicki,anna.janicki@case.edu

Eros without Agape and Philia can plunge us to Genitalism!
Jozef Gal, jozefg@nipissingu.ca

Panel 3: Eros and the politics of difference 1 (Room 6)

Jess Dobkin: mom, dyke, frog
Charles Reeve, creeve@ocad.ca

A Love that Dare Not Be the Same: Kierkegaard, Freud and a Psychology for the Love of Difference
Frances Latchford, flatch@yorku.ca
 
~break~

The Erotic Politics of Abjection
Mary Bunch, mbunch3@uwo.ca
 
“That’s Gay!” Legitimizing Homophobia by Disciplining Homophobic Behaviour: A Critical Discussion of “Progressive Discipline”  in Education Policy
Cindy Vander Meulen, 5cv6@queensu.ca

Concurrent Sessions B

10.45-12.15

Panel 1: On the limits and possibilities of love 2 (Room 4)

The Place of Eros in Philosophy: Hannah Arendt, Gillian Rose, Simone Weil
Sarah MacMillen, macmillens@duq.edu
 
Love and Politics: Platonic Eros vs Aristotelian Philia
Pamela Huber, phuber@connect.carleton.ca
 
Re-thinking Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization in the Postmodern Condition
Dominic Wetzel, dominic.wetzel@gmail.com

Panel 2: Eros, Transgression and Transcendence 1 (Room 5)

Eros Sophistes: Irigaray and the Rhetoric of Sexual Difference
Michael MacDonald, m2macdon@uwaterloo.ca
 
Foucault and the contemporary moral problem of paedophilia
Darini Nicholas, nichd356@newschool.edu
 
Procreation, Completeness, and the Good: Platonic Meditations on Eros in a Transhumanist Age
Paul Corey, paul.corey@humber.ca

Panel 3: Eros in Myth (Room 7)

The maniacal desire of sculptured Venus: femme fatale Eros who swallowed the mirror of Beauty and sexuality
Basia Sliwinska, B.Sliwinska@lboro.ac.uk
 
Zeroes, Heroes, and Eros
Nandan Choksi ANPADH@GMAIL.COM
 
The Medusa Myth and the Eros Adventures of Perseus
Laura Chevalier, lc04nz@brocku.ca

12.00-1.30

Lunch at the Lakehouse

Concurrent Sessions C

1.30-3.45 (with break)

Panel 1:  Eros and the politics of difference 1 (Room 6)

Bad Romance: Sex/Romance, the Politico­Queer and Agential Realism
Joshua Morrison, joshua.t.morrison@gmail.com
 
The Masochistic Feminist: A Compatible Contradiction
Ada Demaj,ademaj@uwo.ca
 
~break~

Extending Brilliant Movement: Erotic Spaces and (Im)Possibilities of Queer South Asian Diaspora in Pratibha Parmar’s Khush
Laura Krahn, krahnl@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca

Eros and Pathos: An Applied View from the Healing Arts
Susanna Pearce, smp12@cornell.edu

1.30-4.00 (with break)

Panel 2: Thinking Through Eros in Education (Room 7)

Liz Airton, lairton@yorku.ca  
Mary J. Harrison, mary_harrison@edu.yorku.ca 
Karen Kugelmass, karen_k@rogers.com 
Michelle Miller, michelle_miller@edu.yorku.ca 
Shannon Snow, shannonsnow@gmail.com 
Anne Stebbins, anne_stebbins@edu.yorku.ca

1.30-3.45 (with break)

Panel 3: Eros, Transgression and Transcendence 2 (Room 5)

Moving From “Hostile Environment”  Sexual “Harassment” Law to “Sexual Discomfort” Law: A Call for Terminological and Ideological Change
Richmond West, rpwest@purdue.edu
 
Rape, Shame, and Guilt in The City of God
Colin Cordner,colin_cordner@yahoo.ca

~break~

On Longing in Confessional Art
Matthew Ryan Smith, msmit269@uwo.ca

Altering the Dialogue: The Erotic Nature of Women in Islamic Culture
Theodra Bane,theodraegbane@gmail.com

Panel 4: Eros in everyday life (Room 4)

Eros and National Security
Gary Kinsman, gkinsman@laurentian.ca

Will the Legalization of Gay Marriage Promote the Marginalization and Criminalization of Queer Sexualities?
Brett C. Stockdill, b-stockdill@neiu.edu & Michelle VanNatta, mvannatta@dom.edu

~break~

Eros and Play: Women’s Aspiration for Liberation in Orissa, India
Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe, tokita-tanabe@nifty.com
 
Young women, heterosexual relationships, power and wellbeing
Prudence Fisher,prufisher@actrix.co.nz

Concurrent Sessions D

4.00-5.30

Panel 1: Feminist encounters with eros (Room 6)

Trafficking in Airs and Veils: re-reading Antigone
Joanne Valin, joannev@nipissingu.ca

The Status of Love in Philosophy: An examination of the role of love (eros) in selected contemporary French thought.
Mark Kourie, mkourie@lantic.net

On Loving the Verb: Irigaray’s Philosophical Insights on Loving the Other
Megan M. Burke, Mburke2@uoregon.edu

Panel 2: From hatred to joy (Room 5)

"Turning Things Around": Love, Hatred, and the Promise of Erotic Life in Spinoza and Marcuse
Réal Fillion, rfillion@usudbury.ca

The Eros of Genealogy
 Alireza Taheri, at407@cam.ac.uk

Love and Feminine Jouissance
Niki D’Amore, damore.niki@gmail.com

Panel 3: Eros is in-between (Room 4)

Transgendering Mystics: Gender Normalizing Narratives in Korean Shamanism
Merose Hwang, meroseh@gmail.com

Politics and Love: a paradoxical affair
Irina Boca, irinavboca@yahoo.com

Eros – daimon, mediator, intermediary: The necessary between of teaching and learning
Alexandra Fidyk, alexfidyk@yahoo.co.uk

5.30-6.00

Short film with Director's introduction (Downstairs Lecture Theatre)

"Good Image Media" - Nicholas Marler

8.30

After dinner keynote by Tina Chanter (Riverside Inn Banquet Hall)

Concurrent Sessions E

9.00-10.30

Panel 1: Subject/Identity formation and constructions of gender and sexuality (Room 4)

Homophobia in a Porn-utopia: Cleland’s Fanny Hill and the economics of homosexuality
Sylvia Hunt, shunt@laurentian.ca

Eros in the Greek novels: Lacanian Explorations
Jean Alvares, alvaresj@mail.montclair.edu

Self-violence and Desire in Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher
Tamkin Hussain, tamkinhussain@hotmail.com

Panel 2: Sublimations of Eros (Room 5)

The Nature of Eternal Eros: Ascending the Temporal
Nevio Cristante, nevio@hacettepe.edu.tr

Sublimated Eros, Celibacy and Self-Construction in fin-de-siècle Russia
Ksenia Sidorenko, ksenia.sidorenko@yale.edu

The Cave: A World Of Shadows Cast By Fire
Clayton Lewis, clay.d.lewis@gmail.com

Panel 3: Eros, identity and Difference 2 (Room 6)

Eros, Embodiment & Blackness: The Semiotics of Sex, Race, and Ontology in Black America
Damon Powell, contemplative1@gmail.com

Race, Sexuality, and the Aesthetics of Diversity
Gabriel A Torres, gtorres@saintmarys.edu

Ghostly Presences: Death, Melancholy  and the Libidinal Economy of National Identification
Baris Kilicbay, bariskilicbay@superonline.com

11.00-1.30

Keynote Address by Luce Irigaray (Main Auditorium)

"Perhaps cultivating Eros could provide for our safety"

Roundtable Discussants: Sal Renshaw, Shannon Bell, Gad Horowitz, Gary Kinsman
 
1.30-3.00

Lunch at the Lakehouse

Concurrent Sessions F

2.15-4.45 (with break)

Panel 1: Eros and public health (Room 4)

Empowerment of Women and Fertility in India
Parveen Nangia, pnangia@laurentian.ca
 
Public Health and HIV/AIDS in Africa in the 21st century.
Adelani David Adeniran, davidadelani@yahoo.com

~break~
 
Acting up or acting out? Performing the self in the sex work arena.
Jan Marie, jan@nemus.co.nz
 
Diversity in 'Trans' and the Relevance of Eros: Negotiating Gender and Identity through Gender Service Access
Coralee Drechsler, drechsc@mcmaster.ca

2.15-3.45

Panel 2: Eros in political theory (Room 5)

The Quarrel between Aristophanes and Socrates: Eros and the City in Plato’s Symposium
Ryan McKinnell, rmckinn2@connect.carleton.ca

The Need for Rhetoric in the Redirection of the Erotic Soul  
Brian Fryer, fryer26@hotmail.com

Prolegomena to Love in Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
Tiago Lier, tiagolier@shaw.ca

2.15-4.30 (with break)

Panel 3: How can eros make us better as individuals and as a society? (Room 6)

Erotic Peace: Threats and Opportunities for Peace within Eros
Danielle Poe, danielle.poe@notes.udayton.edu

The Secret Passage: Secrecy as Social and Cultural Marker of Female Puberty and Commencing Sexualities
Kim Turcot DiFruscia, kim.turcot.difruscia@gmail.com
 
~break~

The Ethic of Eros in the Writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Audre Lorde
Qrescent Mali Mason, qmason@temple.edu

Eros: The Creative Will to Evolve and Fulfill
Marianne Choquet, mariannechoquet@gmail.com

Concurrent Sessions G

4.00-5.30

Seminar (the Ron Doty Seminar Room)

Eros and the Image of the Soul in Platonic Political Philosophy
Waller Newell, waller_newell@carleton.ca

Participants should re-familiarize themselves with Plato's Symposium, the Republic 514a–520a (image of the cave), and the Phaedrus 246a - 254e (image of the chariot of the soul).

4.00-5.00

Panel 1: Eros in life stories (Room 5)

The Search for Eros: A Hazardous Journey for Children of Divorce
Geraldine K. Piorkowski, Drpiork@aol.com

Loving Destruction: Eros Coupled with Thanatos in Veterans' Memoirs
Melissa Licht, licht003@umn.edu

4.00-5.30

Panel 2: ars erotica (Room 6)

Who’s Afraid of Napoleon Dynamite? Love, Absurdity, and America in the Cinema of the Awkward
Rhiannon M. Don, rhiannod@nipissingu.ca
 
Transgression and Transformation: Sacred Marriage Patterns in Apuleius’ “Cupid and Psyche” and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Margaret M. Toscano, margaret.toscano@utah.edu
 
Eros, Romantic and Atonal: Music of Desire
Barry Salwen, salwenb@uncw.edu

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