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

[Gonul Pultar]

katerina kitsi wrote:
> 
> 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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