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Femininities and Masculinities

14 Décembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

"Femininities and Masculinities"

3rd Global Conference
Prague, Czech Republic
21-24 May 2013

[from H-NET, 8/24/12]

Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field of academic study on the issues of gender in its social and cultural contexts. Since its emergence from feminism, gender studies have become one of the most deliberated disciplines. The following project aims at an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and perspectives on the issues of femininity and masculinity in the 21st century. It invites ground-breaking research on a plethora of topics connected with gender, to propose an interdisciplinary view of the frontiers and to stake out new territories in the study of femininity and masculinity.

Papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:

1. Representations of Femininity and Masculinity
- Femininity and masculinity in history and the history of gender
- The representation of gender in culture, art, film, literature
- The representation of gender in popular culture and media
- Gender in the relation to politics, law and social studies

2. Gender Borders and Transgressions
- Performativity of gender
- Female masculinities/male femininities
- Androgyny
- Transgender issues
- The body and its transgressions

3. New Directions in Femininity and Masculinity Studies
- New perspectives in masculinity and boyhood studies
- Men in feminism
- Third wave feminism, womanism
- Postfeminism, post-feminism and postfemininity
- Lesbian feminism
- Eco-feminism
- Cyberfeminism
- Individual feminism
- Feminist disability studies

4. Global and Regional Perspectives on Gender
- Gender and race
- Gender and nationality
- Gender and (post)colonialism
- Case studies of gender issues in local/regional/national perspectives
- Global masculinity/femininity

5. Gender in Relationships
- Motherhood/fatherhood
- Gender and family
- Matriarchy/patriarchy
- Sororophobia and matrophobia
- Misogyny and misandry
- Female genealogy
- Gender and maturity

6. Gender in Experience
- gender in visual and performance arts
- gender in advertisement
- gender mainstreaming
- gender in psychotherapy
- gender equality education
- gender in religion
- gender and NGOs

Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300-word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 30th November 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 15th February 2013. 300-word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 key words E-mails should be entitled: FM3 Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs:
Barbara Braid
Rob Fisher

The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
tel +44 (0)1993 882087
fax +44 (0)870 4601132
e-mail <fm3@inter-disciplinary.net>

Anna Halprin

13 Décembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

ANNA HALPRIN, LE SOUFFLE DE LA DANSE

de Ruedi Gerber

avec : Anna Halprin, Lawrence Halprin, Merce Cunningham, A.A. Leath

titre original : «Breath Made Visible»

genre : DOCUMENTAIRE

pays : Suisse, Etats Unis

durée : 1h22

Un film sur la vie et la carrière exceptionnelle d’Anna Halprin, icône et pionnière américaine de la danse contemporaine. Une femme qui a redéfini la notion de l’art moderne avec la conviction que la danse peut nous apprendre, nous guérir et nous transformer à tous les âges de la vie. Un aller-retour permanent entre l’art et la vie dont le souffle prend son origine dans un message simple que répèt e Anna Halprin sans cesse : « dansez votre vie ».

production : ZAS Film

distributeur : Nour films

Practices and their Bodies

13 Décembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

Practices and their Bodies. What Kind of Artefact is the Lived Body?"

University of Mainz
Germany
25-27 April 2013

[from H-NET, 9/28/12]

Keynote Speakers (confirmed): Chris Shilling (University of Kent), Annemarie Mol (University of Amsterdam), Paul Stoller (West Chester University), Gesa Lindemann (University of Oldenburg) und Martin Dinges (University of Mannheim)

The human body as the subject of research still sits very firmly in the grasp of the natural sciences. Nevertheless, cultural studies and social sciences have put forward two fundamental insights on the body vis-à-vis established biomedical knowledge. Firstly, both anthropological and phenomenological approaches have delved into the inner perspective of our inhabited bodies by viewing the "lived body" as the foundation of all cognition and as the fundamental site of sensory perception, personality, and subjectivity. Secondly, ethnological and historical semantic studies have shed light on the extreme variability of "the body" subject to societal knowledge regimes. Human bodies span an infinite plurality of cultural classifications and historical discourses–a bundle of linguistic categories, medical imaging, interpretation and explanation patterns. Our natural scientific knowledge of the body is part of historically and culturally specific ethnosemantics.

This conference proposes a third fundamental sociocultural way of viewing the body, namely as a component of material culture. In recent years the term practices has oftentimes been used to express this perspective–a conception of human action and behaviour that places controlled bodily movement at the centre of social life. As a part of material culture the body is without doubt an artefact. It has limited capabilities, is practically shaped by food, medicine, and socialisation, and wears out through practical use. However, it is a special material thing: it can learn, i.e., through usage it is materially (re)shaped, disciplined, and is impregnated with habits, and it can specialise in body techniques: instrumental music, handicraft, sports, martial arts, and sex, to just name a handful of such specialisation possibilities.

However, as part of material culture the body has another specific quality: it is the fundamental and, even in the age of technological telecommunication, the inescapable medium of communicative practices. This holds true for its everyday use in linguistic communication–for speaking and hearing, reading and writing–and for the unstoppable display of visual signs through gestures, facial expressions, and clothing, by means of which bodies are constantly depicting cultural differences (e.g. gender, ethnicity, or status). Moreover, this applies for the body in professionalised cultural practices–e.g., pantomime, acting, and dance – and for the specific interconnection of disciplined bodies with telecommunication artefacts.

More information about the programme and registration will be presented on our conference homepage by February 1st, 2013: www.symposium2013.socum.uni-mainz.de.

The conference is hosted by SOCUM, the Research Center of Social- and Cultural Studies Mainz, and the Research Unit Historical Cultural Sciences.

Conference Organisation: Stefan Hirschauer (Sociology), Matthias Krings (Anthropology), Jörg Rogge (History)

The conference aims to consolidate contributions of diverse disciplines (e.g., sociology, history, anthropology, cultural and media studies) in order to converge on possible answers to fundamental questions regarding a sociocultural view of the body. What kind of an artefact is the lived body? How many bodies does a human being have? Which language(s), images, and practices were and are used in pre-modern, modern, and post-modern times to evoke which bodies? What is the communication technological potential of bodies? How does the material body correspond to the perception of the lived body and of "mental" activities? What are the variations that "marginal bodies" bring to light: damaged, animal, dead, embryological, and engineered (cyborg) bodies? Furthermore, cultural studies and social sciences face a number of methodical challenges: How is it possible to capture such a mute object as the body empirically? In which sign systems does it present itself: do bodies "speak" their own language? Is it possible to access culturally different and historical bodies of the past? What kind of descriptive language can be developed that is independent of biomedical ethnosemantics? And finally, how can we deal with the idiosyncratic bias in light of the fleshy mass in between the ends of our hair and toes that we show a portion of the front side of to each other at conferences?

Abstract submission (for papers of 20 min.): one page maximum until January 1st, 2013 to: symposium2013@socum.uni-mainz.de.

The conference will be bilingual (English and German).

Body Horror

12 Décembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

Call for Presentations

1st Global Conference

Monday 11th February – Wednesday 13th February 2013
Sydney, Australia

The body. My body. This thing which is with me all day, every day, from my birth to my death. This flesh which is me. My intimate life-long friend.

In our day-to-day living we have no reason to question or to doubt our bodies. Until the bond of trust is shaken or broken. Something happens. To my body. Something inside: going wrong. A betrayal: a turning against: an unwelcome and unwanted change. From which there is no escape, no running away, nowhere to hide. This is happening to me.

This inter- and transdisciplinary forum aims to explore the many layers and levels of body horror, and the ways in which bodies can become horrifying. Given the diversity and scope of this theme we welcome

~ papers, panels, workshops, reports
~ case studies
~ performance pieces; dramatic readings; poetic renditions; short stories; creative writings
~ works of art; works of music

Key aspects for discussion will include, but not be limited to:

Biological horror. Organic horror
Betrayal; the body turns against you
Something inside; no escape
Change and transformation: the role of time
Pain, suffering, agony, the scream, contortion
mutation and mutilation
Obscene bodies
Disease. Infection, contagion, invasion, virus, the parasite
Surgery, cosmetic surgery, body sculpture; huffing, tattooing, piercing; body art
Pleasure, perversion, fetish
Deformity; disability, affliction
Hybridity
Violence, brutality, torture
Rape
Innards, guts, organs
Dismemberment; instruments of the body’s destruction
Wounded bodies, dying bodies
Post body horror

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers and presentations will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted by Friday 14th September 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper, if appropriate, should be submitted by Friday 23rd November 2012.

What to Send:
300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
E-mails should be entitled: Body Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chair

Hannah Priest: ku.oc.ilacsit@87etakhannah
Rob Fisher: ten.yranilpicsid-retni@1hb

The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

If you like this Project you may also like: Beauty, Cybercultures, Evil, Women and the Feminine, Fear, Horror and Terror, Food, Graphic Novel, Health, Illness and Disease, Madness, Magic and the Supernatural, Monsters and the Monstrous, Pain, Queer Sexualities, Suffering, The Erotic, Time, Space + Body, Trauma, Violence, War, Civil Conflict, Security and Peace

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

Time, Space & the Body

12 Décembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

Call for Presentations

1st Global Conference

Monday 11th February – Wednesday 13th February 2013
Sydney, Australia

While the categories of space and time have been ways of understanding and analysing humanity, the body has often been an ‘absent presence’ (Shilling, 2003). Moreover, in shaping a ‘natural’ attitude about our existence we have been preoccupied with the role of the mind. We have tended to organise our perception of the world by dividing not only the ability to acquire knowledge away from bodily awareness but also the embodied lived being away from its death. This form of organising knowledge acquisition tends to hide the multi-faceted nature of space, time and the body as it is ‘suspended in webs of significance’ (Geertz, 1973). However, by observing humans existence and interaction within these ‘webs’ it becomes apparent that societies consist of people who are embodied, ‘enselved’ and constantly participating in interactive rituals in time and space which include, for example, forms of power, inspiration and elimination. These rituals, be they individualised or participatory, can be explored within specific tasks. As Turner (2004:38) argues ‘every society is confronted by four tasks: the reproduction of populations in time, the regulation of bodies in space, the restraint of the interior body through disciplines and the representation of the exterior body in social space.’

This new conference project focuses on inter- and multi-disciplinary discussion and seeks to explore these tasks in order to open up a dialogue about the beliefs, representations and socio-political practices, of space, time and the body. We encourage presenters to use their own research interests as the foundation to explore inter-connections between their topic and its relationship(s) with time, space and/or the body. We are not expecting papers from experts in all three areas of space, time and the body, but presenters will be expected to discuss how their research relates to at least two out of the three ways of understanding humanity. We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including social geography and anthropology, literary studies, religious studies, archaeology, media and audience studies, architecture and planning, the visual and creative arts, classics and philosophy, social and natural sciences, business studies and politics.

Recognising that different disciplines express themselves in different mediums, we welcome traditional papers, workshop proposals and other forms of performance (as can be accommodated in the space provided). Submissions are sought on different aspects and/or relationships between any combination of space, time or the body or on how space and time are constructed in order to affect, effect, order and/or control the body or vice versa.

Topics could include, but are not limited to:

Cyclical, spiral, dreamtime, memory or linear time and its relation to space and the body
Representations of time, space and the body in popular culture, literature, art and language
How changing attitudes to time, space or the body effect attitudes toward pain, death, suffering, religion, family, gender, sexuality, disability or fashion
Non-human bodies in space and time
The ‘body politic’ or the political body in space and time
Time, ‘performativity’ and identity
Technology and futurology
Time and the spatiality of movement
Monstrosity in space and the body
Body modification and maintenance: past, present and future.
Architecture: its adaption to changing attitudes towards the embodiment of time
City planning and change over time or terrain
Time and Space as Everyday Life
Film, theatre and TV: music and mis-en-scene in relation to time and/or space
Language and embodied/disembodied characters in novels, films, theatre and TV.
Working and/or power relations in time and space
Space, time and the body in computer games
Altered consciousness, spirituality and ritual
Indigenous cultures and cosmologies of space, time and the body
The impact of space and time upon the body
Monetising/economics of production between time, space and body
Legislative/legal constructions as related to time, space, body

We actively encourage participation from practitioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic as well as pre-formed three paper panels.

What to Send:
300 word abstracts or presentation proposals should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs by 14th September 2012; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
E-mails should be entitled: TS+B1 Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs

Shona Hill & Shilinka Hill: shs@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher: ts+b1@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the making Sense Of: programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

If you like this event you may like: Connectivity in the 21st Century, Digital Memories, Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds, Immersive Worlds and Transmedia Narratives, Monstrous Geographies, Performance, Space and Place, Visions of Humanity in Cybercultures, Cyberspace and Science Fiction

Une ecologie des pratiques artistiques

12 Décembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

samedi 1er décembre · 19h00
tags : ethos – morale – disponibilité · Espace Khiasma

« quelle est la place de la morale et de l’éthique dans la notion de « formes de vie » ? quelles sont leur place dans les pratiques repérées par l’enquête ?
il ne s’agira pas d'adopter un point de vue normatif, surplombant, du type : « la morale n’a pas sa place dans l’art » ou « l’art ne peut pas tout se permettre », mais d’essayer de voir en quoi morale, ethos et disponibilité informent les pratiques de cette «cité » que luc boltanski appelle une « cité par projets » dans laquelle une des compétences majeures de l'artiste réside dans son « employabilité ». »

Visite d'exposition, lecture et interventions, avec les réponses de :
Zbynek Baladran (vidéo), Bojana Cvejic / 6 Months 1 Location (lecture),
Frédéric Danos (ready-made), Jochen Dehn (image), Emilie Parendeau
(intervention), Dominique Petitgand (texte), Chloé Quenum (mobile),
Pedro Reyes (installation), Till Roeskens (texte), Manon Santkin
(livret), Vittorio Santoro (image), Maya Schweizer (série d'images),
Rasa Todosijevic (texte) et Lawrence Weiner (partition)

Espace Khiasma
15, rue Chassagnolle
93260 Les Lilas
http://www.khiasma.net

Civilising Bodies

12 Décembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

"Civilising Bodies: Literature, Rhetoric and Image, 1700 - Present Day"

University of Exeter
Exeter, UK
25-26 April 2013

[from H-NET, 10/10/12]

The Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter is holding an interdisciplinary conference open to postgraduates and academics at any level, taking place on the 25th and 26th April 2013.

The narratives, discourses, and imagery of bodies and their relationship with civilisation have affected a diverse range of media, from novels, poetry, and political tracts to art and film, and we are eager for submissions examining a wide a range of sources from 1700 to the present day. We welcome abstracts that examine issues surrounding the themes of bodies and civilisation and their relationship to literature and the arts from researchers of any discipline, including History, Art History, Film Studies, Cultural Studies and Literature. Topics and themes may include:

Discourses of progress
Concepts of savagery and barbarism
The science of race
Ailments of civilisation
Medicine and modernity
Mental health
Sexuality and the body
Issues of class and gender
The politics of medical language
Theoretical or speculative pieces

Guest Speakers:
Dr Lesley Hall (Wellcome Library)
Professor Mark Jackson (University of Exeter)

We invite applicants to submit abstracts of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers (previously unpublished), sent to civilisingbodies@gmail.com by 14th January 2012 with the subject of the e-mail as "Civilising Bodies abstract".

Sarah Jones and Jessica Monaghan
The Centre for Medical History
University of Exeter
College of Humanities
Amory Bulding
Rennes Drive
Exeter
EX4 4RJ
UK
http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/medhist/conferences/Civilising%20Bodies/index.shtml

Désirs et Délices

11 Décembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

Colloque Désirs et Délices -

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13-14 décembre 2012 colloque "désirs et délices" organisé par Béatrice Jongy, Sébastien Hubier, Antonio Dominguez Leiva.

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Le colloque Désirs et délices, qui se tiendra à l'Université de Bourgogne les 13 et 14 décembre 2012, fait suite aux deux colloques organisés à Dijon, en 2004 et 2006, dont les Actes sont parus aux éditions du Murmure, respectivement en 2005 et 2008, sous les titres : Le Supplice oriental dans les arts et la littérature (dir. par Muriel Détrié et Antonio Dominguez Leiva), et Délicieux supplices : érotisme et cruauté en Occident (dir. par Sébastien Hubier et Antonio Dominguez Leiva).
Ce troisième volet, organisé par Béatrice Jongy (Université de Bourgogne), Sébastien Hubier (Université de Reims) et Antonio Dominguez Leiva (UQAM/Canada), fera également l'objet d'une publication aux éditions du Murmure.

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COLLOQUE "DÉSIRS ET DÉLICES"

Programme

Jeudi 13 décembre

L'automédialité érotique

9h45 : Introduction (Béatrice Jongy)

10h00 : Gérald Préher : Le je(u) entre confession et confection : Désir de soi, délice de l’autre dans Lolita, Blue Calhoun et Ma chère Lise

10h30 : Maja Vukusic Zorica : Miodrag Bulatović et Gruban Malić, le rictus des meilleurs « chevaliers » orphelins

11h00 : Pause

11h30 : Bernard Andrieu : Une immersion délicieuse ? le récit expérientiel en 1er personne

12h00 : Michel Arouimi (Université du Littoral) : L’expérience érotique de Mylène Farmer

12h30 : François Perea (Université Montpellier III) : La figuration de soi dans les titres des petites annonces électroniques de rencontre sans lendemain

Érotisme et fantaisie

14h30 : Antonio Dominguez Leiva : Introduction à la pornoféerie

15h00 : Philippe Chardin (Université de Tours) : Érotisme et féérie cruelle dans « À la recherche du temps perdu »

15h30 : Pause

16h00 : Jacques Poirier (Université de Bourgogne) : « Entre les lèvres : sur Claude Louis-Combet »

16h30 : Fabien Demangeot (Université de Bourgogne) : Entre Archaïsme et Modernité : l’imaginaire érotique de Gregg Araki

17h00 : lancement de la collection Borderline

vendredi 14 décembre

Érotisme et gourmandise

9h15 : Sébastien Hubier : introduction : « Pour une anthropologie culturelle des gourmandises de table et de lit »

9h30 : Tovi Bibring (Bar-Ilan) & Alexandra Velissariou (Dunkerque), « Le dérèglement alimentaire comme jeu subtil des genders dans l’imaginaire médiéval »

10h00 : Émilie Etienne (Saint Etienne), « Des femmes servies sur un plateau »

10h30 : Pause

11h00 : Carine Luccioni (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne), « In vino sanitas. Détournement et subversion du discours médical dans la poésie érotique et antérotique du premier XVIIe siècle »

11h30 : Pavel Cazenove (Université de Rennes 2), « Délices sadiens »

13h15 : Myriam Robic (Université de Nantes), « Olive pâmée et fruits savoureux : allusions et métaphores culinaires dans la poésie érotique de Baudelaire et Verlaine »

13h45 : Marie-Camille Bouchindomme (Université de Paris III & Université catholique de Lille), « Le goût des passions dans l’œuvre de Luis Buñuel »

14h15 : Argiro Sifaki (Dijon) « La cuisine érotique d’Yves Thériault : seize recettes du plaisir »

fin du colloque 14h45.

départ pour le musée des Beaux-Arts. Visite à 15h45 (durée 1h): L'érotisme dans les collections du Musée.

concernant l'axe 1 à Béatrice Jongy : bjongy@gmail.com
concernant l'axe 2 à Sébastien Hubier : sebastien.hubier@univ-reims.fr
concernant l'axe 3 à Antonio Dominguez Leiva : antoniodominguezleiva@yahoo.es

L'homme augmenté

11 Décembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

INVITATION

Sur inscription obligatoire: colloqueHA2012@iscc.cnrs.fr

L'Institut des sciences de la communication du CNRS
et la Mission pour l'interdisciplinarité du CNRS

ont le plaisir de vous inviter au colloque

L'humain augmenté
État des lieux et perspectives critiques

Vendredi 14 décembre 2012

ISCC, 20 rue Berbier-du-Mets, 75013 Paris

L'Institut des sciences de la communication du CNRS (ISCC) et le Défi « Insuffisance Perceptive et suppléance personnalisée » (DEFI-SENS) de la Mission pour l'interdisciplinarité du CNRS organisent le vendredi 14 décembre 2012 un colloque sur « L'humain augmenté. État des lieux et perspectives critiques. Perception et représentation de l'humain réparé ou augmenté par hybridation technologique ».

L'objectif de ce colloque est d'analyser et de mettre en perspective le concept d'humain augmenté qui caractérise une utilisation de dispositifs technologiques, souvent embarqués ou implantés, pour accroître les capacités motrices, cognitives, sensorielles, la longévité, etc. de l'être humain. En majorité issus des travaux de la médecine supplétive, ces dispositifs ont aujourd'hui quitté le domaine du soin pour viser à une amélioration de l'individu qui se voit ainsi réduit à un ensemble de fonctions.

Parallèlement, des discours sur un possible dépassement de l'humanité par la technique se développent et sont largement relayés dans les médias et l'opinion publique comme un horizon souhaitable, voire pour certains, inéluctable de l'avenir de l'espèce humaine.

Si l'augmentation est aussi ancienne que le premier outil réalisé par la main de l'homme, la prégnance des techniques sur l'époque contemporaine conduit à une accélération de la machinisation de l'humain. Alors que dans le même temps, il existe une réflexion sur cette thématique qui n'est pas suffisamment audible. Ce colloque a pour ambition de réunir, de structurer et de donner une visibilité à la communauté de recherche qui travaille sur cette question dans les domaines des sciences cognitives, des sciences de la communication et des sciences humaines et sociales. Il a vocation à faire émerger des problématiques et des projets amenés à être poursuivis dans les prochaines années en élargissant encore l'éventail disciplinaire.

Inscription obligatoire, dans la limite des places disponibles
colloqueHA2012@iscc.cnrs.fr

Programme en pièce jointe et + d'infos en ligne

Crédit photographique : © CNRS Photothèque – Kaksonen
UMR6057 – Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) – Aix-en-Provence
Illustration : Céline Vaslin – ISCC.

Body Projects

11 Décembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

PDF of Body Projects CFP

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body projects copy

Body Modification and the Female Body

9^th March 2013, University of York

An interdisciplinary one day conference

Call for Papers

Body modification is a controversial topic within feminism. The debate centres on issues of agency, pleasure, oppression, and false consciousness, and often pitches different understandings of women, and ‘second’ and ‘third’ waves of feminism, in opposition. Our definition of body modification is broad, from shaved legs to buttock implants; from the honed ‘fit’ body to ‘fat-reducing’ surgery; from self-tanning to pro-ana; from piercings to gender reassignment, and much more.

This conference seeks to create a space where differences of perspective, of cultural understanding and of theoretical viewpoint can be tackled through debating issues of body modification. Our aim is to expand understandings of various forms of body modification as well as develop feminist understandings across multiple disciplines. We hope to attract speakers from a wide range of disciplines including but not limited to Social Sciences, Women and Gender Studies, History, Medicine, English, Art and Philosophy.

We welcome abstracts for 20 minute papers, and also encourage people to submit ideas for relevant performances or art work.

Areas for discussion are listed below, but we encourage any topic within the theme of the conference:

Aesthetics, idealism and body modification; Agency, ownership and oppression; Embodied experiences; Body image; Body as object; Gendered experience; Discourses of modification; Mind/body duality and the individual; Medicalisation; Popular feminism and popular culture; Commercialism; Individualism and neo-liberalism; Sexuality; Femininity and masculinity; The racialised body; Eating disorders; Fatness/thinness; Technology; Transgender; The aging body.

Please send abstracts of 250-300 words to bodyprojectsconf@gmail.com by the 10^th December 2012.

Those who have submitted abstracts will be notified of acceptance by the 1^st January 2013.