Call for Papers: Identifiable Remains - The Body and the Moving Image
The San Francisco State University Graduate Program in
Cinema Studies will be host a conference entitled
“Identifiable Remains The Body and the Moving Image”
October 2-3 2003.
We appreciate your assistance in forwarding the
following information to interested parties.
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The body is both a source of pleasure and the site of
intense vulnerability. Furthermore the body
constitutes the physical materiality that is the basis
for human subjectivity and social presence. The body
then fundamentally permeates identity, politics and
nearly every other aspect of our cultural existence.
But what happens to the body when it is mediated
through various forms of visual representation? How
are we to make sense of the mediums that
simultaneously realize and alienate the human body?
What is at stake in the technological reproduction of
the body?
Today the body seems to be moving in diametrically
opposite directions. On the one hand, it is
continually on the brink of being effaced and
otherwise rendered unnecessary, while on the other,
the body appears more explicitly and pervasively than
ever before. In both cases, what we make of the body
has much to do with the way that it is represented and
the way that we interpret and understand those
representations. IDENTIFIABLE REMAINS seeks to explore
these concerns as well as the surrounding anxieties
and possibilities that underlie the relationship
between signification and the substantive subject. In
short, the conference aims to exchange diverse
interdisciplinary perspectives that critically engage
the body and its representation in cinema and other
popular media forms. We are currently soliciting
one-page proposals for a 15 to 20 minute paper
presentation to be delivered October 3, 2003 as part
of San Francisco State’s annual graduate student
conference in Cinema Studies. All interests are
welcome, and all proposals will be considered.
>>>THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS JUNE 22, 2003<<<
Some possible topics include, but are not limited to:
EXPLICIT BODIES: Pornography and the Uncensored
Imagination
THE BODY POLITIC: Mass Culture and the Masses
BODY AS METAPHOR: How to Speak the Body
ERASING THE ORGANIC: Cyborgs, Technology and Digital
Substitutes
BEYOND REPAIR: The Postmodern Body
BODIES AND BOUNDARIES: Sexuality, Gender and Love
ANATOMY AS INFORMATION: Reproduction, Cloning and
Cybernetics
BODILY OBJECTS: Desire, Anxiety and Identity
FOREIGN BODIES: Fetishization in the Post-Colonial Era
EMPIRICALLY AWRY: Science Fiction, Special Effects and
Other Corpulent Monstrosities
PAIN AND ITS VICISSITUDES: The Clinical Body
Please send your one-page abstract and all other
inquiries by e-mail to: thebody@sfsu.edu
Or by mail to: IDENTIFIABLE REMAINS
Department of Cinema Studies
San Francisco State University
1630 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, 94132
Please include your name, e-mail address, the
institution you are currently affiliated with and any
other necessary contact information with your
abstract. A self-addressed stamped envelope must
accompany all submissions requiring return.
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