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2025 events<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
Contemporary Women\u2019s Writing Association Annual Conference<\/div>\n
Wednesday 18th\u00a0June 2025 to Friday 20th\u00a0June 2025<\/div>\n
Falmouth University, UK — in partnership with the Love Research Network<\/em><\/div>\n
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The Contemporary Women\u2019s Writing Association\u2019s 2025 conference will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact of women\u2019s writing. This conference is dedicated to the discussion of a broad range of women\u2019s writing, including the popular and the literary; bestsellers and genres; romance and relationships; erotica and pornography; poetry and prose; screen and script; writing for games and digital spaces; creative non-fiction; life-writing, biography, and memoir; and journalism and other forms of cultural production.<\/div>\n
We will be thinking and talking about women\u2019s voices and artistic practices; forms and mediums; representing the past and writing the future; textual and sexual politics; resistance and re-imaginings; interventions and intersections; writing as activism; and all of this across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts.<\/div>\n
We will also be offering, and accepting proposals for, a variety of workshops for ECRs\/PhDs, as well as on publishing, careers, and practice.<\/div>\n
We hope you will join us for this exciting event, which will bring together scholars, researchers, students, and enthusiasts to share their research, insights, and perspectives in an open and inclusive atmosphere. We welcome submissions for individual twenty-minute papers as well as for full panels and workshops. Subjects can include (but are not bound by):<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bonkbusters, Romance, and Erotica<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The pre- and post-#MeToo landscape<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Depicting love and relationships<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Women\u2019s writing and pleasure<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Race, class, gender, and resistance<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Activism and protest; freedoms and oppression<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Writing technologies<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Women writing sex for the screen<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Representing sex and sexualities<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Women\u2019s writing on page, stage, and screen<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The poetics of women\u2019s writing<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Creative practices and performance<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bestsellers and the popular<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cultural, historical, and social contexts<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reframing history and envisioning futures<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Traditional and digital forms of women\u2019s writing<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Autoethnography and authorship; memory and memorialisation<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The figure of the female author: celebrity, fans, and representations<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Intersectionality and dualities<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Women in and writing games<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Multicultural approaches and practices<\/div>\n
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Submissions:<\/b><\/div>\n
Proposals should include a title, an abstract of 250\u2013300 words, a brief biographical note (up to 100 words), and contact details. Panel proposals are very welcome.<\/div>\n
Please submit your proposals in a Word document to the team at\u00a0info.cwwaconference@gmail.com<\/a><\/u>\u00a0by\u00a031st\u00a0January 2025.<\/b>\u00a0We encourage submissions from scholars at all stages of their careers, including early career researchers, and postgraduate students. Interdisciplinary approaches and innovative methodologies are welcome.<\/div>\n
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2024 events<\/h2>\n
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Sex, Scandal, and Sensation<\/strong>
Tuesday 2 July 2024 to Thursday 4 July 2024<\/strong>
Falmouth University, UK, in partnership with City University, Hong Kong<\/strong>


Sex, Scandal, and Sensation is an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact of the sensational, the scandalous, and the sexual in literature, film, television, gaming, and other forms of cultural production. The conference is dedicated to the discussion of a broad range of genres and sub-genres, including Romance, Erotica, and Pornographies; Bestsellers, Blockbusters, and Bonkbusters; Sensation Fiction and the Sensational Press; Crime Fiction and True Crime narratives; Shilling Shockers, Penny Dreadfuls and the Pulps; the Gothic in both traditional and modern forms; Thrillers on both page and screen; Soap Operas and Shocking Theatre; RPG and Digital storytelling; and other genres and forms that both rely on the scandal, sensation, and sex for their effects, and explore its effects on us.
Taking place in the bicentenary of the birth of Wilkie Collins, the godfather of Sensation Fiction, and amidst Simon & Schuster\u2019s ongoing reissue of the entire catalogue of the so-called \u2018Queen of Trash\u2019 and powerful feminist icon Jackie Collins, this conference celebrates, exposes, and interrogates the boundaries and depths of popular, and not so popular, culture and real-world events. We will be thinking and talking about affect and its effects, about public outrage and private shame, about censorship and permissiveness, about lawsuits and love affairs, about the market and its imperatives, about aesthetics and morality, and all of this across a wide range of disciplines, mediums, time periods, and texts.
We hope you will join us for the exciting event, which will bring together scholars, researchers, students, and enthusiasts to share their research, insights, and perspectives in an open and inclusive atmosphere. We welcome submissions for individual twenty-minute papers as well as for full panels exploring sex, scandal, and sensation. Subjects can include (but are not bound by):
\u2022 The portrayal and evolution of sex, scandal, and sensation across different periods and genres
\u2022 The role of sensation in bestsellers and popular literature
\u2022 The portrayal of desire, sex, and consent in global Romantic Fictions
\u2022 The ways in which scandal and sensation are used to challenge or reinforce social norms
\u2022 Creating the sensational on screen
\u2022 Navigating consent on screen
\u2022 Real world scandals and fictional sensation
\u2022 Landscape of sensation, the scandalous, and the traumatic
\u2022 Navigating sex and sexualities in traditional and digital forms
\u2022 Interactive digital romance in visual novels and dating simulators
\u2022 Simulating sex and romance: the rules of roleplaying

Submissions:
Proposals should include a title, an abstract of 250\u2013300 words, a brief biographical note (up to 100 words), and contact details. Panel proposals are very welcome.
Please submit your proposals to sensationconference@gmail.com by 14th February 2024. We encourage submissions from scholars at all stages of their careers, including early career researchers and postgraduate students. Interdisciplinary approaches and innovative methodologies are welcome.<\/div>\n
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CFP: Sex, Scandal and Sensation (Deadline: 14 February, 2024) (victorianweb.org)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Schedule of 2022-2023 online events<\/h2>\n

Friday 18 November 6pm GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n

G\u00f6zde K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7: Maraz\u00ee A\u015fk: Love and\/as Sickness in Late Ottoman and Early Republic Medical Discourse<\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Isabel Gonz\u00e1lez Cruz: Book Presentation + Q&A: Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction. Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries; Hispanicisms in Romance Fiction. An Annotated Glossary.<\/p>\n

Friday 9 December 3pm GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ania Malinowska: Book presentation: Love in Contemporary Technoculture<\/p>\n

Friday 13 January 3pm GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tony Milligan & discussant: Presentation and discussion: Care about Future Generations as a form of Love.<\/p>\n

Friday 17 February 3pm GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christina Straub & Martin Purcell: Themed workshop: Love\u00b4s role in state institutions<\/p>\n

Friday 21 April 6pm GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Estella Carolye Kuchta: Presentation and discussion: An Ecocentric Theory of Love: New Research<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Award for Citadel Love Stories<\/h2>\n

18 March 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

University researchers have won a Generations Working Together Award for a project that brought together an intergenerational group of LGBTQ+ people to discuss their experiences and perspectives.<\/p>\n

\u2018Citadel Love Stories:\u00a0Exploring Life-time LGBTQ+ Love and Relationships\u2019 was led by Dr Mei Fang and Professor Judith Sixsmith (School of Health Sciences) and\u00a0Professor Michael Gratzke (School of Humanities and Director of the Doctoral Academy) along with partners at the Citadel Youth Centre\u00a0in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

The project was funded by the Institute for Social Sciences Research (ISSR) and brought participants together in a virtual space where they conveyed a strong sense of shared love and relationship experiences. The storytelling focus of the project provided the opportunity to explore health and social outcomes associated with younger and older peoples\u2019 LGBTQ+ experiences.<\/p>\n

Citadel Love Stories won the Social Justice and Dignity category of the Generations Working Together Awards. A\u00a0short film<\/a>\u00a0sees participants and researchers share their experiences of the project, while more information can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Listen to Love \u2013 zine launch<\/h2>\n

16 June 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

The young writers from The Warren present their collaborative zine at Type Slowly\/The Warren Record Shop.\u00a0More information on the project can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dementia Love Stories<\/h2>\n

9 November 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

This project conducted by Emma Wolverson and Michael Gratzke is starting off with a training session for Hull City of Culture volunteers and Hull PhD poets on the morning before the conference on \u2018The cultural legacy of ageing well with dementia in Hull<\/a>\u2019 on 29 November 2017. John Killick of\u00a0Dementia Positive<\/a>\u00a0will deliver the training which volunteers will put to good use at an event in January 2018 at the memory loss support group\u00a0Butterflies<\/em>\u00a0in Hull<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The basic premise is that people with dementia have a creative voice which should be heard. The training will equip volunteers to co-write poetry with people who have dementia. To poets as to people with dementia, every single word is precious. Words are carefully arranged in way which may divert from everyday language use in terms of meaning, form and connections (semantics, morphology and syntax).<\/p>\n

The Butterfly collaboration is a pilot project which will be carefully evaluated. Possible follow-on initiatives may include the provision of poetry tool-kit online for carers to download, and further workshops on prose and visual arts such as photography.<\/p>\n

Inspired by a similar initiative in Australia, we maintain a focus on love in all its forms such as love between spouses, love within the family and the love of care professionals. Memory loss does not mean that people stop experiencing or giving love. Each voice of love is rich and deserves to be heard.<\/p>\n

Research workshop on 24 September 2016<\/h2>\n

Researchers and PhD candidates from social sciences, cultural studies and clinical psychology at the University of Hull have come together as the Hull CLS group. The goal of this research group is to establish Critical Love Studies as a multidisciplinary field of research at the University of Hull and beyond. In order to achieve this, we are working towards grant capture, a programme of participatory & creative events during the Hull City of Culture 2017 programme, a major international conference in conjunction with the Love Research Network, and a number of publications.<\/p>\n

Critical Love Studies, as we understand them, can be expressed by the phrase: Love is what people say it is. First and foremost, this means that we are open-minded, attentive and ready to embrace experiences and representations of love where they occur. In order to understand them we have to ask open-ended questions and to listen closely to nuance. This attitude favours an inductive research methodology rather than following a traditional theory of love.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the phrase above addresses love as something people say and do. Love is relational and it is performative. We have no direct access to the potentiality of all love. Love comes into being in the billions acts of loving which occur at all times. Thirdly, love in its performativity is productive. We reproduce given patterns of loving behaviour and thus reinforce the truth regimes associated with them (love is supposed to be unconditional, love between two non-related adults is supposed to be exclusive, you are supposed to hate the person with whom you are breaking up etc.). Still, changes in love occur in the uncountable acts of non-identical repetition. Like changes to gender roles and gender relations, changes to experiences and representations of love are gradual. This is why each and every act of love is valuable to Critical Love Studies.<\/p>\n

The workshop will take place on 24 September 2016 from 10am to 5pm at:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maritime Historical Studies Centre,\u00a0<\/strong>Blaydes House,\u00a0<\/strong>6 High Street,\u00a0<\/strong>Hull, HU1 1HA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attendance is free for registered students and unwaged people. Otherwise it is \u00a330 which covers refreshments and a light lunch as well. The maximum number of participants is thirty.<\/p>\n

Abstracts of the papers will be circulated beforehand. We invite participants to read these abstracts and to contribute to discussions.<\/p>\n

PROGRAMME<\/h3>\n

10.00 Opening remarks<\/p>\n

10.15-11.30\u00a0Session 1: \u201cProfessional Love\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 convened by Emma Wolverson (Hull)<\/p>\n

Peter Oakes (Doncaster Disability Services): What\u2019s love got to do with it? Long-term support and love by paid staff in psychological health and wellbeing services.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Cowell (Hull): The role of care home staff in facilitating continuity of love for couples living with dementia following a transition into residential care.<\/p>\n

Coffee\/tea<\/p>\n

11.45-13.00\u00a0Session 2: \u201cDigital Love\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 convened by Susanne Vosmer (Hull)<\/p>\n

Olga Mudraya (Huddersfield): Language in online dating by over-50s.<\/p>\n

Jo Bell & Louis Bayley (Hull): Online expressions of love in the face of grief.<\/p>\n

Lunch (provided)<\/p>\n

13.45-15.00\u00a0Session 3: \u201cLove\/Community\/Family\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 convened by Julie Seymour (Hull)<\/p>\n

Jo Britton (Sheffield): Exploring the lives of Muslim Men: Family, Community and Generation.<\/p>\n

Julie Walsh (Sheffield): Community Love: The significance of \u2018family\u2019 in a city that is increasingly culturally diverse<\/p>\n

Coffee\/tea<\/p>\n

15.15-16.00\u00a0Paper & discussion: Love+\/-Loss.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael Gratzke (Hull): Critical Love Studies and the ends of love.<\/p>\n

Wine reception (until 16.45)<\/p>\n

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Conference<\/h2>\n

THE MATERIALITY OF LOVE<\/h2>\n

The Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia (Poland) and Love Research Network<\/h2>\n

2\u20133 July 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The interest of love studies in the ways affection can be materialised has been reflected through various scholarly perspectives. Although material culture studies have given the issue less attention, there has recently been a revival of research into the intersection of materiality and love. The conference is seeking to reexamine love from the perspective of materiality studies, especially new materialism and object-oriented philosophy, to spark a debate on a relationship between love, objects and new forms of materialising affection. The conference aims to analyse the role of things and material culture in practicing and conceptualising love. It intends to provide an insight into how materiality (in its broadest sense) impacts the understanding of love today (its meanings and practices), and reversely, how love contributes to the production and transformation of the material world.<\/p>\n

Call for papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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INAUGURAL LECTURE: Professor Michael Gratzke, University of Hull<\/h2>\n

27 April September 2015, 7:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Love is what people say it is’ Researching Experiences and Representations of Romantic Love in the 21st Century<\/p>\n

‘Love is what people say it is’, means in a phenomenological sense that people’s lived experiences and descriptions of love should be taken seriously by love researchers. Love is what people describe it as being. The trajectory of this kind of research is inductive.
\nAdditionally there is a performative sense to this sentence where love quite literally is talked into being through people’s utterances. That is to say, “I love you.” is a performative utterance in a linguistic sense. Therefore, love can be understood as comprising no more, and equally no less, than people’s daily performances of love.
\nHaving completed a PhD in Modern German Literature at Hamburg University, Michael Gratzke moved to the UK in 1999. He held posts as a lector at Cambridge, and as lecturer and senior lecturer at St Andrews before joining the University of Hull in September 2014. So far he has published two monographs, one on representations of masochism, the other on heroism of sacrifice. He is the founder of the international, multi-disciplinary Love Research Network. He is currently working on a third book addressing romantic love in German, English and Finnish literature of the 21st century.<\/p>\n

Listen to the lecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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LOVE RESEARCH TODAY<\/h2>\n

26th September 2014, 1-7pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open University (London regional office), 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP (Room 2B\/C)<\/p>\n

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Workshop, 1-4pm<\/h3>\n

Dr Philip Roscoe & Dr Shiona Chillas (St Andrews): \u2018Organizing love: a perspective from the social sciences\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr Anna Malinowska (Silesia): \u2018Temporalities of love: affection and acceleration culture\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr Meg Barker (Open University): \u2018Rewriting the rules of love\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr Katherine Twamley (Institute of Education): \u2018An ethnographic approach to love and intimacy across cultures\u2019<\/p>\n

Prof Michael Gratzke (Hull): \u2018Studying \u201clove\u201d as a phenomenon in its own right\u2019<\/p>\n

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Public lectures and discussion, 5-7pm<\/h3>\n

Prof. Simon May (King\u2019s College London): \u2018Love as religion\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr Tony Milligan (Hertfordshire): \u2018The politics of love\u2019<\/p>\n

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Both events were free of charge.<\/p>\n

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Research Colloquium<\/h2>\n

FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES<\/h2>\n

Love Today: Interdisciplinary Perspectives<\/h2>\n

Monday 16 December 2013 3\u20137 pm
\nSchool III, United College, University of St Andrews<\/strong><\/p>\n

3.00 welcome (Professor Lorna Milne, General Editor of Forum for Modern Language Studies)<\/p>\n

3.15\u00a0Professor Eva Illouz, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Sociology), ‘What “love” do modern people mean when they speak about love?’<\/p>\n

4.15\u00a0Professor Simon May, King’s College, London (Philosophy), ‘What can Biblical narratives teach us about the nature of love?’<\/p>\n

5.15 tea break<\/p>\n

5.45\u00a0Professor Lynne Pearce, Lancaster University (English), ‘Love’s memory: the role of memory and dream-work in the production and sustenance of Agapic love’<\/p>\n

6.45 closing remarks (Dr Michael Gratzke, Love Research Network)<\/p>\n

Guests and colleagues may attend any of the papers without charge or the need to register.<\/p>\n

The next morning Profs Pearce and May will attend a postgraduate workshop where three students will respond to the papers and three other students will present their work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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