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

[Gonul Pultar]

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Announcement of plenary speakers:  Johannes Birringer, Rosi Braidotti, =
Elizabeth Bronfen, Sue-Ellen Case, E. Douka-Kabitoglou, Sander Gilman

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 =
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 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:=20

=B7 classical/grotesque bodies

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

=B7 training/normalising/shaping bodies=20

=B7 technologized/cyborg/virtual bodies=20

=B7 scientific/medical representations of the body

=B7 bodies used and abused=20

=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.=20

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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