Exoticism and the Spread of Disease on Pacific Islands

我在索菲亚大学联合组织了一次关于异国情调的国际会议(2022年6月3日至5日)，有23名演讲者。我们将把精选的来稿收入一本选集中，该选集将于2023年由Fink(德国)出版。为这本书，我准备了一段从18世纪到现在的异国情调概念的入门历史。盎格鲁-撒克逊人的后殖民主义尖锐地批评异国情调，而法语国家的传统则将异国情调作为一种生活艺术来庆祝。我还详细阐述了一项关于性异国情调的研究，将皮埃尔·洛蒂和罗伯特·米勒与太平洋岛屿上性病传播的背景进行了比较。欧洲的档案研究表明，医学话语起到了对应性异国情调的作用。因此，异国情调成为一个极具争议性的领域。

I co-organized an international conference on exoticism (June 3-5, 2022), with 23 speakers at Sophia University. We will include selected contributions in an anthology, to be published by Fink (Germany) in 2023. For the book, I prepared an introductory history of the concept of exoticism from the 18th century to the present. While Anglo-Saxon post-colonialism sharply criticizes exoticism, the Francophone tradition celebrates exoticism as an art of living. I also elaborated a study on sexual exoticism comparing Pierre Loti and Robert Mueller against the background of the spread of venereal diseases on Pacific islands. Archival studies in Europe have shown that medical discourse functions as a counter-discourse to sexual exoticism. Exoticism thus turns out to be a highly controversial field.