Call for Papers: Nineteenth-Century Aetiologies, Exoticism, and Multimodal Aesthetics
Call for Papers: Nineteenth-Century Aetiologies, Exoticism, and Multimodal Aesthetics 2-4 April 2013 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom http://embodiments.liv.ac.uk/?page_id=1105 Of illness and exotic curatives, one hardly escapes solidago odora, ass’s milk, juice of millipedes, senna, horse dung, and snake oil. Medical narratives during the nineteenth century manifest somewhat irreconcilable cross-modalities of enthusiasm and fear with ‘otherness’. Drawing inspiration from early Greek philosophy, the post-Enlightenment art flourished with a focus on various modes of otherness; debating determinism, slavery, forgiveness, and nationalism while bringing together concepts that play major roles in our contemporary pedagogical approaches. Though it is not often emphasized, modes of eroticism in prose, poetry, and painting, whether of metaphorical or mythological conceptualisation, communicate certain entanglements with ‘otherness’. Given that today, multimodal n...