Over four years ago I posted my first academic world meets fetish world startle regarding a CFP email. Startling, but my field is lit and one happily grows to expect some BDSM study. It was only a week (or was it two now? I do blog slowly...) ago when I got another. I opened my email this week only to find another CFP startlingly titled:
"Spanking and Poetry: A Conference on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick"
No, really, that's what it says. But I do think CUNY (yes, City University of New York again) is, as the British say, taking the piss. The first sentence of the call reads (how had I not remembered this Sedgwick quote?)
"When I was a child the two most rhythmic things that happened to me were spanking and poetry." (Sedgwick, Tendencies 182)
And then goes on to say
Eve Sedgwick lovingly, if none too gently, slapped open the sphincter-tight boundary rings of critical scholarship on the sexual and affective relations between bodies.
Sadly the kinky stuff mostly ends at this point save a couple of paper suggestions (Fisting-as-écriture and Shame and Generic Discipline respectively). But hey, if you like Sedgwick and want to go, check them out at their blog.
