[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Pathologies: Scientific and Cultural Representations of the Normal and Abnormal (grad) (1/29/07; 3/16/07-3/17/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Pathologies:
   Scientific and Cultural Representations of the
   Normal and the Abnormal

   Rice University
   March 16?17, 2007

   Keynote Speaker: Rachel Adams, Ph.D., associate professor of English
and American Literature and associate director of American Studies at
Columbia University.  She is the author of several books and essays,
including Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination
and editor of The Masculinity Studies Reader.

   From the Sokal affair to the proliferation of sub-disciplinary fields
such as posthumanism and disability studies, the sciences and the
humanities are engaging with each other in new and often surprising
ways.  This conference is interested in exploring what ?the two
cultures? can learn from one another.  In particular, we are interested
in how these areas of research work?both in opposition and
collaboration?to imagine and construct the normal and the abnormal.
 From phrenology to eugenics to critical race theory, the sciences and
the humanities are both responsible for influencing the ways we think
about and categorize identities and the relationship between the
functional and the defunct, the tolerable and the intolerable, and the
orthodox and the unconventional.  We hope that this conference will open
new pathways for collaborative work between the two disciplines.


   Paper topics could include but are not limited to:
   v      The representation, management, and history of physical and
mental disease
   v      Disability studies, including the management of bodies, the
gaze and the disabled body, accessibility, and disability rights and culture
   v      Metaphors or tropes of the healthy or diseased body
   v      Social disorders, both individual and collective, such as
misanthropy, anxiety, hate crime, hypocrisy, and racism
   v      Literatures and theories that describe and diagnose social
behaviors and disorders, from conduct literature and popular periodicals
to psychiatric diagnostic manuals and textbooks
   v      Subculture, crime, perversion and other social deviance
   v      Racial and sexual difference
   v      The (ab)use of normative categories in colonialism
   v      Theoretical position papers exploring the fundamental
questions of what literary studies can learn from the sciences and what
the sciences can learn from literary studies

   We invite both individual and panel submissions from all disciplines.
  Please send abstracts of 200 words or less to
ricesymposium2007 at hotmail.com.  Presentations should be no more than 20
minutes in length.  Our submission deadline is January 29, 2007.

   Questions? Contact Andrew Klein (andrewaklein at yahoo.com) or Victoria
Ford (vford at rice.edu).


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