CFP: Performativity/Body/Performance (12/1; 2/18-2/20)

From: Michael Ridgway Jones (mrjones@unca.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 17 1999 - 16:09:28 EDT


THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

THIRD ANNUAL GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE

FEBRUARY 18-20, 2000

PERFORMATIVITY/BODY/PERFORMANCE: THEORIZING AND ACTING THE BODY

Keynote Address: Prof. Marjorie Garber, Harvard University

CALL FOR PAPERS, PROPOSALS, AND ABSTRACTS

Papers, presentations, and performances are invited in the following
suggested categories:

What is "Performance"?

Performing the African-American Body

Queerness and Race

Bisexuality as Performance

Gender Ambiguity

Doing Gender/Doing Sexuality

The Transvestite Body and the Transgendered Body

(Academic) Fashion: Presentation of the Self on Campus

Representations of Bodies and/in Performance

Performance as Resistance/Rerforming Resistance

Disability and "Negative" Bodies

Watching the Body

Papers will be allowed 20 minutes reading time.
Please specify any audiovisual or multimedia requirements.

PLEASE SUBMIT ABSTRACTS OF 500-800 WORDS BY DECEMBER 1, 1999
TO MELISSA BURCHARD AND MICHAEL JONES AT glsc@bulldog.unca.edu

or you may mail them to:

Gay and Lesbian Studies Conference
Humanities Program
227 Carmichael Hall
The University of North Carolina at Asheville
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804-8505

For further information about this year's conference, please visit our web
site at www.unca.edu/glsc.

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