IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 239: Indecent Theologies, II: Phalluses, Virgins, Saints, and Other Average Indecencies

Monday 4 July 2022, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen
Organisers:	David Carrillo-Rangel, Institut de Recerca de Cultures Medievals (IRCVM), Universitat de Barcelona Sophie Conaghan-Sexon, School of Critical Studies (English Language), University of Glasgow
Moderator/Chair:	David Carrillo-Rangel, Institut de Recerca de Cultures Medievals (IRCVM), Universitat de Barcelona
Paper 239-a	The Miraculous Penis (Language: English) Joanna Augustyn, Instytut Literaturoznawstwa, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Sexuality, Social History
Paper 239-b	Contagion, Panic, Shame: Modern Transphobia's Medieval Resonances (Language: English) C. Libby, Department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Latin, Sexuality
Paper 239-c	Indecent Bodies: Ageing Women in the Late Medieval West (Language: English) Laura Cayrol Bernardo, Universidad de Oviedo Index terms: Gender Studies, Sexuality, Women's Studies
Abstract	Indecent Theology, as coined by Marcella Althaus-Reid (2000), is a theological perspective which radically perverts accepted doctrines in sex, gender, and politics and re-establishes their borders. Medieval and early modern theology and history becomes a place for prospective non-normative discourses because this affective theology disturbs the borders of decent, historical constructs, and indecent, to visualise otherness. In this session we aim to critically reflect on sexuality and phallocentrism, bringing theology out of the closet, centring indecency in religious perspectives.