CFP: Age and the Body (4/1/06; SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)

Age and the Body:
Special Session 2006 SAMLA Convention: 10-12 November; Charlotte, NC

Topic: Informed by recent developments in critical age studies, literary
scholars have begun to reconsider how age operates through and on the body
within texts. We invite submissions from all periods and genres, with topics
including but not limited to:
childhood
adolescence
widowhood
death and dying
the prime of life
old age
youth
babyhood
middle-age
pregnancy/fertility
plastic surgery, Viagra and other efforts to defy aging
weight loss / weight gain
the fountain of youth
impotence
pedophilia
sexuality
performances of age.

Submission deadline: April 1, 2006

Send inquiries or submissions to Esther Godfrey at egodfrey_at_utk.edu. Per
SAMLA guidelines, please include the following information with your
submission.

1. Panelist Name and Institution as this information should appear in the
convention program.
2. Panelist Address: street, city, state, zip
3. Panelist Phone Number: area code ¡V number
4. Panelist Email address
5. AV Equipment Request: Due to the high cost of AV equipment and the
miscommunication between panelist and chair and the SAMLA office, all AV
requests must be made in writing by the panelist and included with each
panelist proposal to the session chair. If a panelist does not wish to have
any AV equipment, this information must also be included. No completed program
listing submitted by the chair will be accepted without these written AV
requests by the panelists.
6. Panelist proposal, Session Title, Name

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