[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Historicizing Fat (4/1/07; MLA '07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

"Historicizing Fat"

A Proposed Special Session for the 2007 Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association


Papers are solicited which consider how fat been constructed in
different historical periods. Papers might consider times in which fat
was unmarked entirely, understood in other than pathologized terms, or
alternatively, they might give a history to the category of "obesity."
  I am interested in the way in which history, broadly understood, can
be used to imagine and thus create alternatives to what sometimes seems
like an all-too-oppressive present. As such, papers that reflect on the
role history can play in creating a fat accepting community are
especially welcome.

E-mail a one-page abstract with a short biography by 16 March 2007 to
Elena Levy-Navarro at levye at uww.edu. You will be notified of your status
by 1 April 2007. All participants must be members of the MLA before 7
April 2007.  The MLA will be held in Chicago, IL from 27 Dec. - 30 Dec.
2007.



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Elena Levy-Navarro, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Program in English
University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
Whitewater, WI  53190
USA

(262)472-5047 (tel.)
(262)472-1037 (fax)

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