The Summer School
“Sexuality and Morality: From Religious Taboos to the Commerce of Intimacy”
will be held at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL),
in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 10th to the 14th of September 2012.
Coordinators: Anna Fedele and Valerio Simoni
The entanglements of sexuality and morality have often captured the imagination of scholars, challenging their normative assumptions and calling into question their descriptive and interpretative tools. What can be said of these entanglements at the beginning of the 21st century, after decades of research on the matter? Are there still unbroken taboos in the social sciences? How are we to understand sexuality and morality, and how can these issues be investigated? How are relations between sexuality and morality being (re)defined? What is the role of religion, politics, and commerce in (re)shaping these relations? How can anthropology improve our understanding of such complex entanglements?
The Summer School “Sexuality and Morality: From Religious Taboos to the Commerce of Intimacy” will be held at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL), in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 10th to the 14th of September 2012. The program encompasses lectures and seminars.
The course is suited to anyone who wants to challenge taken for granted assumptions on sexuality and morality and wishes to rethink their complex relationships in the light of the latest debates in anthropology. Combining theory and empirical research, the School offers participants a wide spectrum of strategies to address the intersections of sexuality and morality. It reviews key perspectives and approaches in the social sciences and humanities, and provides a space for debating a range of case studies and concrete examples. Religious taboos, sex work, and same-sex marriages are among the cases addressed.
Lectures and seminars are given by academics with a strong international profile that have both empirical and theoretical expertise on the subjects treated.
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Summer Course on Sexuality and Morality
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application procedures to the Summer School on Sexuality and Morality,
For enquiries related to the course content, please contact the Summer School co-ordinators:
Valerio Simoni (vals_sim@yahoo.com) or Anna Fedele (anna.fedele@yahoo.com).
For questions related to application procedures, please contact Valerio Simoni (vals_sim@yahoo.com)