UPDATE: Bodies, Theories and Cultures in the Post-Millennial Era (Greece) (9/30/02; 5/15/03-5/18/03)

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Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 06:32:03 EDT

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    Please notice our new deadline for submission of abstracts: September
    30, 2002

    The Flesh Made Text: Bodies, Theories, Cultures in the Post-Millennial
    Era

    (9/30/02; 5/15-18/03)

    School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

    15-18 May, 2003

    The School of English of Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, in
    cooperation 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 upcoming Olympic Games (Athens 2004) provide a stimulating
    opportunity to explore the historical trajectory of the concept of the
    body and debate 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:

    =B7 classical/grotesque bodies

    =B7 embodying and transgressing gender/race/class/sexuality

    =B7 training/normalizing/shaping bodies

    =B7 technologized/cyborg/virtual bodies

    =B7 scientific/medical representations of the body

    =B7 bodies used and abused

    =B7 modern/postmodern bodies

    Interested participants should submit panel proposals and/or 20-minute
    paper abstracts of approximately 350 words by September 30, 2002 either
    by airmail or e-mail. Selected papers will be published in the
    conference proceedings.

    For more information visit our website: http://www.enl.auth.gr/body

    Please address e-mails to: body@enl.auth.gr

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