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Convenors<\/strong><\/p>\n Luke Brunning<\/strong> (University of Birmingham); l.brunning@bham.ac.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Lauren Ware<\/strong> (University of Kent); L.Ware@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cRecognition, Love, and Opacity\u201d – Nick Clanchy<\/strong> (University of Oxford)<\/p>\n \u201cDefining Parental Love\u201d – Jake Lehrle-Fry<\/strong> (Aarhus University)<\/p>\n \u201cLegal recognition of polyamorous families: a claim for desirability\u201d – Francesca Miccoli<\/strong> (University of Milan)<\/p>\n \u201cWhat \u2018being in a relationship\u2019 means and what it should mean\u201d – Perrine Sriwannawit<\/strong> (University of Birmingham)<\/p>\n \u201cCoalition-Building and Erotic Practice\u201d – Caleb Ward<\/strong> (University of Hamburg)<\/p>\n \u201cTime and Tending: Theorising the Politics of Kinship and Intimacy on an Ecological Frame\u201d –\u00a0 Susan Notess<\/strong> (Durham University): <\/p>\n \u201cBDSM, Sexual Laboratories & Ethical Tightroping\u201d – Rory Kent<\/strong> (University of Cambridge)<\/p>\n \u201cThe Politics of Intimate Life: A Symposium Dialogue\u201d – Luke Brunning<\/strong> (University of Birmingham) and Lauren Ware<\/strong> (University of Kent)<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Intimate life is shaped by politics. Politics shapes intimate life. This workshop aims to better understand these commonplaces, and builds on the Politics of Romantic Life at MANCEPT last year. We invite talks which seek to understand and ameliorate the situation of sexual minorities and alternative intimate lives in the context of the modern state. Read \u2018intimate life\u2019 as broadly as the range of visible experiments in living. Some people happily eschew sex, others reject romance, or the couple, or marriage, or domestic life, or the family. Intimate arrangements, like sexual desire itself, are polymorphous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Our questions are: Can the state accommodate this diversity? Should it try? Might love, or the pursuit of pleasure, offer ways of resisting neoliberal ideals? Or is intimate life insular and isolating? These and other tensions abound at a time where some revel in the fact that (nearly) all is permitted, and others feel increasingly anxious and disconnected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n One function of philosophy is to help us describe, criticise, and perhaps reconcile ourselves to our situation. We do this on the go, from the inside, and approach these questions already as people who love, or hope to love, or as people for whom the happy\u00a0absence of love inevitably\u00a0strikes others as a problem.\u00a0Join us to consider together\u00a0some of the political questions related to intimate life: an area of human\u00a0concern at the intersection of philosophy of emotion and political philosophy, and with vibrant interdisciplinary depth drawing from feminist, political, and psychological theory to applied questions in law, education, sociology, and social work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Abstracts are welcome on the following questions, or on any other topic related to the political aspects of intimacy (the list below is by no means exhaustive):<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Politics of Intimate Life Convenors Luke Brunning (University of Birmingham); l.brunning@bham.ac.uk Lauren Ware (University of Kent); L.Ware@kent.ac.uk 8 th of September Session 1 (10.00-13.00) \u201cRecognition, Love, and Opacity\u201d – Nick Clanchy (University of Oxford) \u201cDefining Parental Love\u201d – Jake Lehrle-Fry (Aarhus University) Session 2 (14.00-17.00) \u201cLegal recognition of polyamorous families: a claim for desirability\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4408,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Convenors<\/strong>\r\n\r\nLuke Brunning<\/strong> (University of Birmingham); l.brunning@bham.ac.uk<\/a><\/span>\r\n\r\nLauren Ware<\/strong> (University of Kent); L.Ware@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/span>\r\n\r\n
\n8 th of September<\/h4>\n
Session 1 (10.00-13.00)<\/em><\/h6>\n
Session 2 (14.00-17.00)<\/em><\/h6>\n
9 th of September<\/h4>\n
Session 1 (10.00-13.00)<\/em><\/h6>\n
Session 2 (14.00-17.00)<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\r\n\r\nIntimate life is shaped by politics. Politics shapes intimate life. This workshop aims to better understand these commonplaces, and builds on the Politics of Romantic Life at MANCEPT last year. We invite talks which seek to understand and ameliorate the situation of sexual minorities and alternative intimate lives in the context of the modern state. Read \u2018intimate life\u2019 as broadly as the range of visible experiments in living. Some people happily eschew sex, others reject romance, or the couple, or marriage, or domestic life, or the family. Intimate arrangements, like sexual desire itself, are polymorphous.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nOur questions are: Can the state accommodate this diversity? Should it try? Might love, or the pursuit of pleasure, offer ways of resisting neoliberal ideals? Or is intimate life insular and isolating? These and other tensions abound at a time where some revel in the fact that (nearly) all is permitted, and others feel increasingly anxious and disconnected.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nOne function of philosophy is to help us describe, criticise, and perhaps reconcile ourselves to our situation. We do this on the go, from the inside, and approach these questions already as people who love, or hope to love, or as people for whom the happy\u00a0absence of love inevitably\u00a0strikes others as a problem.\u00a0Join us to consider together\u00a0some of the political questions related to intimate life: an area of human\u00a0concern at the intersection of philosophy of emotion and political philosophy, and with vibrant interdisciplinary depth drawing from feminist, political, and psychological theory to applied questions in law, education, sociology, and social work.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nAbstracts are welcome on the following questions, or on any other topic related to the political aspects of intimacy (the list below is by no means exhaustive):<\/span>\r\n\r\n \t