Skepsi will be holding its 8th annual conference later in the month, under the theme ‘Disgust’. The event will be held over two days, 29 and 30 May 2015.

Skepsi is a peer-reviewed online journal produced within the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL). It is run by our PhD/MA candidates, with the support of established and early career academics, and commits to publishing the work of postgraduate students and emerging scholars.

Disgust has received growing critical attention among researchers in fields as varied as literature, philosophy of art, biology, psychology or gender studies. It is universally experienced even if the object of disgust can vary greatly according to the cultures. With the neurosciences increasingly gaining attention from the humanities for their project of explaining cognitive states and processes with reference to the material brain, it is opportune to reflect upon those experiences that strike the pit of the stomach before the head. Key research questions that will concern us are: Why is disgust so appealing? What is the relationship between physical and moral disgust? Can disgust be explained with the help of the theory of evolution? How is the rhetoric of disgust mobilised in far-right ideologies?.

Registration for the event costs £10, which includes a wine reception. For details of how to register, and the full conference programme, please see the page here: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/skepsi/