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The College of Charleston\u2019s Avery Research Center and African American Studies Program<\/span>
2013 Conference and Symposium<\/span>
September 17-21, 2013<\/span>
Historic Downtown Charleston, SC<\/span>

I believe in the erotic and I believe in it as an enlightening force within our lives as women. I have become clearer about the distinctions between the erotic and other apparently similar forces. We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. And when I say living I mean it as that force which moves us toward what will accomplish real positive change.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0-Audre Lorde<\/i><\/span>

By extracting the salacious, Lorde elevates the erotic from that which merely titillates the body to that which is essential, vital, and most paramount to our survival, our happiness, our fulfillment\u2014our joy as humans. Lorde suggests that our ability to fully understand, embrace, and harness the power, beauty, and essence of the erotic is the key to our positive evolution as people. The question remains, however: can we unleash the erotic?<\/span>
As a Black woman, lesbian, feminist, mother, writer, and artist, Lorde articulates the power, beauty, strength of the feminine creative force, as well as the isolation, pain, and marginalization she often experienced due to her queerness and her blackness. Black scholars still wrestle with the ghosts of slavery, the mutilation of Black bodies, the dispensability of black life, and caricatures of black sexuality, \u2013from the grotesque, comical, to the hypersexualized\u2014all the while confronting the politics of respectability which traps us with the binary opposition of our blackness and the erotic. By challenging and dismantling these binaries and limiting narratives, we can awaken, honor, and harness the passion, power, and praxis of the erotic. We see this time and space as ripe for articulating the wide, varied, and expansive nature of gender and sexuality, and the performance of both.<\/span>
We invite proposals from across disciplines. We are most interested in proposals that address aspects of the following topics:<\/span>

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Black bodies in popular culture<\/span>

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Black sexuality in television, film, and literature<\/span>

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Queering the Black body in art and performance studies<\/span>

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Iconic Black Queer motifs<\/span>

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sex and Sexuality and Black Faith<\/span>

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Naughty, but nice: Black women and the politics of respectability<\/span>

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Black Erotica, Romance Novels, Comic Books<\/span>

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Black Body and Public Health<\/span>

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hip Hop and the Hypersexuality of Black Women<\/span>

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Alternative Modes of Black Love and Family<\/span>

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Politics and Economics of Porn<\/span>

Proposal deadline: May 10, 2013.<\/span>
The deadline for proposals is May 10, 2013; complete papers due by August 1, 2013. Please send all paper and panel proposals to<\/span>friersons@cofc.edu<\/a><\/span>friersons@cofc.edu<\/a>> with your name, institution, title, email address, presentation title and format, along with a 150 word abstract, brief bio, an
\nd recent cv. Please put \u201cUnleashing the Erotic\u201d in your subject line. Presentations will be limited to twenty minutes.<\/span>

For additional information, please contact Dr. Patricia Williams Lessane, Executive Director, Avery Research Center, at<\/span>lessanepw@cofc.edu<\/a><\/span>lessanepw@cofc.edu<\/a>> and Dr. Conseula Francis, Associate Professor, English Department and Program Director, African American Studies Program (AAST) at\u00a0<\/span>francisc@cofc.edu<\/a><\/span>francisc@cofc.edu<\/a>> .<\/span>

Information regarding registration, lodging, and symposium schedule will be available on the Avery Research Center\u2019s website beginning in May 2013.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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