[Bilimsel Haber] CFP./CONF.: "Telling Bodies: Practices, Discourses, Looks, " Barcelona, 26-30 March 2007

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*First International Conference "Body and Textuality"
Telling Bodies: Practices, Discourses, Looks
*Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
26-30 March 2007

The body is in the 21st century everything but a certainty, a  
condition which raises an infinite number of questions. How do we  
inhabit the body that we are/have? How does the body present itself  
and represent us, and to what extent? How does it become legible and  
intelligible? What does the body say? What can it say, what can't it  
say? About who or what? How may I influence what the body I am/have  
says or represents? Does my body belong to me, or do I belong to it?  
Is this a relationship of belonging, or rather of participation  
without belonging? What power does my body have? Which are the  
categories that make it visible? What is the body?

These questions invite us to consider both the relationship of our  
bodies with the discourses that constitute them and the texts that  
articulate the body's social and political potential. This conference  
intends thus to be an interdisciplinary meeting point for the  
discussion of the body as a central cultural construction.

Suggested thematic areas:
* Body and literature: the body as text and as literary theme...
* Body and culture: fashion, media, popular culture...
* Body and thought: language, theology, scientific discourse...
* Body and norms: deviant and deviated bodies, transsexuality,  
transgendered bodies, monstrosity...
* Body and technology: artificiality, cyberbodies, surgery, bodybuilding...

Conference languages:
The official languages of the Conference are Catalan, Spanish and  
English. Contributions in Galician, Portuguese, French, and Italian  
are also welcome.

Papers:
Papers should not exceed 2,500 words, excluding bibliography.  
Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. A volume of selected paper  
will be published.

Abstracts:
Please e-mail 150-300 word abstracts including: keywords in English  
and Spanish, your full name, institutional affiliation, email and  
postal address. Deadline: November 30, 2006 (to  
cg.lostextosdelcuerpo at uab.es). Acceptance of proposals will be  
notified by December 20, 2006.

Subscription fees:
- participants presenting papers: 90 euros
- attendance without paper presentation: 25 euros
Payment by transfer to bank account number 2013 0692 80 0202511758.

Contact email: cg.lostextosdelcuerpo at uab.es
Research Group "Body and Textuality"
Coordinator: Dr. Meri Torras,
Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)

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