[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Pathologies - Questions of Embodiment in Literature, Arts and Science (UK) (3/31/07; 8/20/07-8/21/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

PATHOLOGIES
Questions of embodiment in literature, arts and sciences

The Inaugural International Conference of the
Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science

August 20-21, 2007

Plenary Speakers:
Tim Armstrong, Kelly Hurley & Jonathan Sawday

The newly formed Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, based
at the University of Glamorgan, would welcome papers on topics falling
under the title of ¡ÆPathologies¡Ç. Abstracts of no more than onepage
of A4 (approx 400-500 words) should be sent to all of the Conference
organisers, and Co-Directors of the Centre, Professor Andrew Smith,
Professor Jeff Wallace and Dr Martin Willis by MARCH 31, 2007. Decisions
will be made in APRIL 2007.


*         To consider how the body has been pathologized is to ask
questions of what it means to be human. As the originating site of
humanity the body (extending from the individual to society and nation)
is the physical, metaphorical and philosophical place for the
inscription of selfhood, identity, normality and change. The multiple
pathologies of the body invite us to reflect upon bodily conditions and
behaviours that mark out the boundaries of the individual, the social
and the national as well as their transgressions. Where does the self
begin and end? How do we construct normality, deformity, and
monstrosity? How do culture, society and the individual relate and
connect across the many pathologies that invade, infect, distress and
reconstruct the human?

This conference invites the submission of abstracts for 20 minute papers
dealing with pathologies (broadly defined) across the intersections of
literature and science or the arts and science. Papers may deal with any
historical, artistic or literary period. Topics may include, but are
certainly not limited to, the following:


           Representations of disease

           The Socio-politics of medical research

           The art and science of early modern medicine/pathology

           Dissection

         The body and the machine

           Gothic bodies

           Cultural pathologies of identity

*               Pathologizing gender through science

*               Neurasthenia and modernism

*               The degenerate body



Please send your abstract, together with your name, university
affiliation and position to all of asmith5 at glam.ac.uk,
jwallace at glam.ac.uk, mwillis at glam.ac.uk or alternatively to one of the
organisers at: Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and
Science (RCLAS), Pathologies Conference, Department of Humanities and
Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, UK.



  Dr Martin Willis
Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Acting Head of the Division of
English
Co-Director, Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Glamorgan
Pontypridd
CF37 1DL
01443 483491
mwillis at glam.ac.uk

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