Minding the Body

2013 ESA Conference

Minding the Body: Dualism and Its Discontents
Conference Date: February 28 – March 1, 2013
Submission Deadline: January 28, 2013
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  “The BRAIN—is wider than the sky—”
                      — Emily Dickinson

Opening Keynote
Mary Flanagan (Dartmouth College)

Closing Keynote
Frédérique de Vignemont(Institut Jean-Nicod), Keynote Speaker
G. Gabrielle Starr (NYU), Respondent

“Minding the Body” is an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the English Student Association in the English program at The Graduate Center (CUNY). This conference will include work by graduate students that considers theory and scholarship about the mind-body problem via a wide range of disciplines, including the humanities (literary studies, philosophy, visual arts, and performance studies), the social sciences, media studies, psychology, and cognitive science. Intersections between recent theoretical currents, including theories of mind and consciousness, ideas about emotions and affect, and the relationship between neuroscientific findings and understandings of embodiment, will be explored. Perspectives on body and mind in narrative studies, literary theory, reading practices, and aesthetic or affective response, and how they might also relate to thinking about mind and body in other fields, will also be considered.

We would like to include the widest possible range of approaches to ways of thinking about “minding the body” in all literary fields and we encourage interrogation of disciplinary boundaries or interdisciplinary perspectives. Papers may be literary and humanities focused, or may consider other perspectives on mind and body from other fields. We encourage proposals in other media as well.

Please send a proposal of 250-500 words for a 15-20 minute paper by January 28, 2013. Proposals should include title, presenter’s name, institutional and departmental affiliation, and any technology requests.

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This conference is co-sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center Ph.D. Program in English,the English Student Association, the Doctoral Students’ Council, The Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies, The Center for Humanities, GC Digital Initiatives, The Center for the Study of Women and Society, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies and the Twentieth Century Area Studies Group.