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URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/comparative-pornographies-2/
SUMMARY:Comparative Pornographies: Transnational Approaches to Writing Sex\
 , East and West (Day 2)
DESCRIPTION:—conference organized by Andrea S. Goldman (UCLA)\, Kathryn N
 orberg (UCLA) and Paola Zamperini (Northwestern University)\n\nAt the end 
 of the twentieth century\, scholars of European pornography began to explo
 re obscenity and its implications for our understanding of the time that p
 roduced it\, the seventeenth and\, especially\, eighteenth centuries.  A 
 world of previously ignored texts came to light\, producing new theories a
 nd interpretations\, suggesting that the rise of pornography was somehow a
  harbinger of modernity.  This activity\, however\, occurred within narro
 w geographical boundaries and was tied firmly to Western historical trajec
 tories. Asian pornography\, especially the long and particularly rich Chin
 ese tradition\, was ignored.  Students of Asian and European pornography 
 worked separately with little interaction even though they shared theory a
 nd all focused on the same kind of fictional narratives produced roughly a
 t the same time.\n\nThis conference seeks to break down the barriers that 
 have separated these scholars and engender a more transnational and interc
 ultural approach to the qualities and development of pornography in the ea
 rly modern world. We aim to raise general\, theoretical issues that relate
  to both Western and Asian obscenity\, by exploring\, for example\, the in
 tersection of pornography and modernity. Another important and related lin
 e of inquiry has to do with terminology and genre: while it would be easy 
 to categorize explicit Chinese and other non-Western sources as pornograph
 y\, it is also crucial to explore the risks and benefits of applying Euro-
 American constructs\, terminology\, and genres to Asian literatures. The c
 omparative impulse tends to make the European experience the norm: we hope
  that by bringing in scholars and discussants working on the pornographic 
 non-Western traditions\, we can broaden the comparative conversation throu
 gh a meaningful and exciting conversation among presenters\, discussants\,
  and audience.\n\nSpeakers\nKatherine Carlitz\, University of Pittsburgh\n
 Keith McMahon\, University of Kansas\nGuido Ruggiero\, University of Miami
 \nTimon Screech\, SOAS\, University of London\nMark Stevenson\, Chinese Un
 iversity of Hong Kong\nGiovanni Vitiello\, University of Naples “L’Ori
 entale”\nEllen Widmer\, Wellesley University\nCuncun Wu\, The University
  of Hong Kong\nPaola Zamperini\, Northwestern University\n\n\n\nImage: Pai
 nting on Silk\, Yin Qi\, mid-19th century\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston.\
 n\n\n\nProgram\n\n9:00 a.m.\nMorning Coffee and Registration\n\n9:30 a.m.\
 nSex Acts II\nDiscussants: Katsuya Hirano and Massimo Ciavolella\, Univers
 ity of California\, Los Angeles\n\nTimon Screech\, SOAS\, University of Lo
 ndon\n“Japanese Erotica of the Early-Modern Period and Bodily Denial”\
 n\n10:00 a.m.\nGuido Ruggiero\, University of Miami\n“Pornotheology: Gra
 phic Sex as Philosophy and Theology in the Rinascimento”\n\n10:30 a.m.\n
 Giovanni Vitiello\, University of Naples “L’Orientale”\n“Books to 
 Burn: Pornography and Censorship in Late Imperial China”\n\n11:00 a.m.\n
 Discussion \n\n11:30 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\n11:45 a.m.\nRoundtable II: The
 orizing Pornography\nModerators: Kathryn Norberg and Andrea S. Goldman\, U
 niversity of California\, Los Angeles \n\nLynn Hunt\, University of Calif
 ornia\, Los Angeles\nMaximillian Novak\, University of California\, Los An
 geles\nAmy Richlin\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nPaola Zamperi
 ni\, Northwestern University\n\n1:15 p.m.         Program ends
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