[Discussion] (Trans)Forming Bodies

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

	*(Trans)Forming Bodies*
*Location:* 	United Kingdom
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(TRANS)FORMING BODIES
One Day Postgraduate Study Day
School of American and Canadian Studies
The University of Nottingham, UK
5th August 2005.

This one-day, interdisciplinary conference aims to explore both the
formation (construction) and transformation (deconstruction,
reconstruction, reproduction) of human bodies as represented in a
variety of discourses.

The body has historically been perceived as a site upon which the
"truth" of one's identity (race, sex, age) is inscribed. With this in
mind, we are seeking proposals for 15-minute papers that interrogate the
body's apparent immutability and/or consider the (im)possibility of
transcending the material body through transformation.

We strongly encourage proposals in a variety of disciplines, including
literature, film, visual arts, history, sociology and new media.

Suggested areas for discussion are, but not limited to:

    * Authenticity and Cultural Authority
    * Masquerade, Passing and Disguise
    * Bodily Mutations / Body Imaging
    * Gendered and Raced Bodies
    * Bodily Classifications
    * Adolescent Bodies
    * The Body-as-Text
    * The Body in Religious Discourse
    * National Bodies / Civic Bodies
    * The Body in Historical Discourse
    * Slave Bodies / The Body and Economics
    * The Body in Visual Culture
    * Virtual Bodies, Cyber Bodies, the Body and Technology
    * Sexualities
    * Bodies in Motion, Travelling Bodies and Tourism

The conference fee will be =A315, including break-time refreshments and
lunch.

Please send proposals of up to 300 words with institutional affiliation
to the conference organises by the *25th of April 2005*.

	Sinead Moynihan/Joanne Hall
(Trans)Forming Bodies
Department of American Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
Email: transformingbodies@hotmail.co.uk
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