[ecrea] CFP - OUR BODIES, OUR SHELVES: EMBODIED CULTURAL STUDIES

> CFP - OUR BODIES, OUR SHELVES:  EMBODIED CULTURAL STUDIES The 
> Critical Feminist Studies Division of the Cultural Studies 
> Association (CSA) invites abstracts for papers for the 8th Annual 
> Meeting, March 18-20, 2010 in Berkeley, CA. What do we mean by 'our 
> body of work'?  This session seeks to bring together new and 
> critical approaches to the body.  Too often, discussions of the body 
> actually deaden or erase the urging, sensing, feeling body -- 
> particularly the body of the researcher and theorist. Some possible 
> topics include, but are not limited to: - new theoretical approaches 
> to immanence - new questions of biopolitics, the surveillance and 
> control of bodies - affect, emotion, intimacy - new bodies and 
> populations: girls, the detained, the masked contagious - 
> technologies of the body - new subjectivities of display, exhibition 
> - materiality and material culture - the trans/transitioning body, 
> sex-reassignment surgeries - anti-bodies (anti-aging, antioxidants, 
> anti-bacterial, anti-retrovirals, etc.) - social, cultural and 
> political bodies - ideal/ized bodies - disease and the body, 
> epidemics - consuming for the environmentally-friendly green body - 
> globalization through, produced from the body - women's bodies in 
> feminist movement/feminist theory - bio-privileges - the body in/and 
> culture industries - fat studies, obesity, BMI - new connections 
> between Phenomenology and Cultural Studies - Disability Studies - 
> the physical experience of research, Cultural Studies as always 
> already embodied Critical Feminist Studies dedicates itself to work 
> that builds upon, even as it critiques, the institutions and 
> practices of Women's and Gender Studies, focusing in particular on 
> transnational formations and movements, queer and sexuality studies, 
> and politics, practices, and representations. 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Studies_Association) One of 
> the aims of the Division is to open up a critical space for the 
> ideas and initiatives of young/junior scholars within Cultural 
> Studies. To submit, please include the following: 1.  Your name, 
> email address, phone number, and institutional affiliation; 
> 2.  Title and 500 word abstract for the 
> paper/presentation/performance; 3.  Any audio-visual equipment 
> needs. The deadline for submission is September 10, 2009. Send 
> inquires and submissions to: Sarah L. Rasmusson 
> (sarahrasmusson /at/ yahoo.com) Chair, Critical Feminist Studies Division 
> Sarah L. Rasmusson Fellow Illinois Program for Research in the 
> Humanities (IPRH) University of Illinois (srasmus3 /at/ illinois.edu) 
> 217-721-7733 (mobile) 217-265-0308 (office)




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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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