Body Modification: Changing Bodies, Changing Selves (30 Nov 2002; 24 - 26
Apr 2003)
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL OUR INVITED SPEAKERS
It has come to our attention that the email address that we had set up for
the Body Modification conference (bodmod@scmp.mq.edu.au) has been
experiencing some technical difficulties, which have prevented us from
receiving your emails and abstracts.
On behalf of the Body Modification Conference Committee, I would like to
apologise for the inconvenience and frustration this may have caused. Please
be assured that this email problem has been corrected, and our email account
is now functioning properly.
If you attempted to ask us questions via email or to send abstracts, and
have received no reply, please accept our apologies.
We ask you to please re-submit any abstracts you may have sent, and also
please email us to ask any questions you may have pertaining to the
conference.
We are looking forward to a dynamic, diverse and provocative conference, and
we would love for you to be part of this exciting International event. The
Body Modification Conference will be held from April 24 - 26 2003 at
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
If you have any urgent questions, please email Conference Organiser Dr.
Nikki Sullivan directly - nsulliva@scmp.mq.edu.au
Once again, we apologise for any difficulties this temporary glitch may have
caused, and we do urge you to send us your abstracts before the 30 November
deadline.
Below is a copy of the Call For Papers - we look forward to hearing from you
soon.
Kindest Regards,
Samantha Murray
(on behalf of the Body Modification Conference Committee)
Body Modification: Changing Bodies, Changing Selves
Call for Papers: Abstracts are invited for an international conference to be
held at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, on April 24th-26th 2003.
Abstracts should be 300-500 words and should be forwarded to Dr Nikki
Sullivan at the address listed below. Proposals for panels and for
performance pieces are welcomed.
The aim of this conference is explore the many and varied ways in which
bodies are modified, selves are formed and transformed, and culturally
specific knowledges and practices are mediated and transfigured. We hope to
include a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to the question of what
constitutes body modification, as well as performative and visual
presentations.
Possible topics:
· ‘non-mainstream’ body modification (tattooing, piercing, scarification,
branding, etc)
· body sculpting (corsetry, dieting, body-building, binding, constriction,
negation, elongation, etc)
· performance art
· body politics
· transformative rituals
· body modification in non-Western cultures and/or in other historical
epochs
· transgender and/or transsexualism; intersex
· cosmetic surgery
· fatness; anorexia; eating
· technology and the body (cyborgs, nanotechnology, reproductive
technologies, transplants, implants, cloning, ethics, etc)
· virtual bodies
· ‘self-mutilation’
· fashion
· illness; pain
· sadomasochism; fetishes; bodies and pleasures
· pregnant embodiment
· the racialization of the body; hybrid bodies
· monstrosity; the normalization of ‘deformed’ bodies
· ageing
· addiction
· reading/writing the body
· intercorporeality
· war; violence; torture; terrorism
Deadline for abstracts: November 30th 2002
Invited Speakers:
· Alphonso Lingis
· Orlan
· Del la Grace Volcano
· Susan Stryker
· Rosalyn Diprose
· Victoria Pitts
Further information:
Body Modification Conference Committee
Department of Critical and Cultural Studies
Macquarie University
North Ryde
New South Wales 2109
Australia
Email: bodmod@scmp.mq.edu.au
Phone: + 61 (0)2 9850 8760
Website: www.ccs.mq.edu.au/bodmod (under construction)
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