[Discussion] Beden ve Kontrol

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Keynote speaker announced:

K=F6rperkontrolle/Kontrollk=F6rper:
 From Regulation to Excess in Fictional Models and Social Practices.
(12/15/04; 3/11-12/05)

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference hosted by the
Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, March
11-12, 2005.

Keynote speaker: Niklaus Largier
Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of
German; whose recent works include Lob der Peitsche. Eine
Kulturgeschichte der Erregung (Munich, C.H. Beck, 2001).

Attempts to understand the relationship between the body, control, and
sociopolitical life are at least as old as Plato and Aristotle, and
significant among them are the contributions offered by German-speaking
thinkers. In recent decades, commentators such as Foucault and Butler
have drawn upon Hegel, Nietzsche and Freud in theorizing ways in which
habits, technologies and institutional practices control the individual
body, the social body and the body politic.  In its interdisciplinary
exploration of control in the Germanic context, our conference is
interested in both documented social practices and fictional models
across media such as literature, film and painting, from the
Middle Ages to the present. By exploring both controlled and controlling
bodies, we hope to gain a better understanding of the uncertain
ontological status of control with respect to regulation and excess.
How are the mechanisms of control involved in the very excesses they
purportedly regulate? What role does control play in generative/creative
processes?  Does control function through repetition, reproduction, and
suppression, or does control force intensification of bodily experience,
pushing the body to transgress? How is excess regulated, experienced and
represented?  Furthermore, how do different disciplines conceptualize
and represent the phenomenon of control?

Scholars from the Humanities and Social Sciences are encouraged to
interpret the conference theme broadly and innovatively.

Graduate students from all disciplines working in the German-speaking
context are invited to submit paper abstracts of 350-500 words in German
or English.  Conference presentations are to be given in English and
should not exceed 20 minutes.  Abstracts must be received by 15
December, 2004.  Authors of accepted papers will be notified via email
by 31 January, 2005.  Please email your abstract as a Word attachment to:
uc-germanic-conference@listhost.uchicago.edu.

In the body of your email, please include the following: title of paper,
author=92s name, institutional and departmental affiliation, e-mail
address and primary phone number.  Accommodation will be provided for
conference participants.  For further information about the conference,
please email to the above address.

Organized by Darren Ilett, Kym Lanzetta, Catherine Sprecher and Terri Zhu=
.




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