Perhaps the easiest place to start is with the upcoming 7th Global Conference by Interdisciplinary.net conference, The Erotic. The conference blurb reads:
Mapping the field of the erotic is a complex and frustrating endeavour; as something which permeates lived experience, interpersonal relationships, intellectual reflection, aesthetic tastes and sensibilities, the erotic is clearly multi-layered and requires a plethora of approaches, insights and perspectives if we are to better to understand, appreciate and define it.
This inter- and trans- disciplinary project seeks to explore critical issues in relation to eroticism and the erotic through its history, its emergence in human development, both individual and phylogenetic, as well as its expression in national and cultural histories across the world, including issues of transgression and censorship. The project will also explore erotic imagination and its representation in art, art history, literature, film and music. These explorations inevitably touch on the relationship between sexualities, gender and bodies, along with questions concerning the perverse, fetishism and fantasy, pornography and obscenity.
Pretty interesting stuff. I will be presenting a paper discussing the sexual rights of persons with disabilities, the main premise of which is that persons with disabilities have sexual needs and urges, but society either frowns upon sexual activity between or involving persons with disabilities or denies that it exists at all.
Perhaps the lack of recognition of the sexual rights of persons with disabilities should be paid more attention when initiating campaigns for awareness and mainstreaming? Food for thought.
On a more personal note, the Conference is being held from 10 - 12 September at Oxford University. I could not be more thrilled, and I am extremely honoured that my paper has been chosen for presentation at such a prestigious University!
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