CFP: Bodies, Theories and Cultures in the Post-Millennial Era (Greece)
(5/31/02; 5/15/03-5/18/03 2003)
The School of English of Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, in
co-operation with the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE)
and the Hellenic Association of American Studies (HELAAS), invites scholars
to submit proposals for the international conference on the body to be held
in Thessaloniki on 15-18 May, 2003.
The conference aims to seize the opportunity of the upcoming Olympics
(Athens 2004) to explore the historical trajectories of the concept of the
body and discuss the ambiguous cultural situation of (post) modern bodies as
figures of crisis and fragmentation and, simultaneously, as privileged loci
of presence and wholeness. We are encouraging interdisciplinary work from
the fields of literary and cultural studies, art criticism, media studies,
anthropology, psychology, history, and philosophy, which will address
questions of corporeal representation and discourse in a broad array of
?texts?: literature and the visual arts, theatre and performance arts,
science and technology, and the mass media. Topics may include, among
others: classical/grotesque bodies; embodying and transgressing
gender/race/class/sexuality; training/normalizing/shaping bodies;
technologized, cyborg and virtual bodies; scientific/medical
representations of the body; bodies used and abused;
classical/modern/post-modern bodies.
Interested participants should submit panel proposals and/or 20-minute paper
abstracts of approximately 350 words by May 31, 2002 either by airmail or
e-mail. Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
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