[ecrea] CFP: Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment: 10th International Somatechnics Conference

*Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment: *

*/the 10^th International Somatechnics Conference/*

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*Byron Bay December 1-3, 2016**//*

Following recent conferences in Linköping(2013), Otago (2014) and Tucson
(2015), we are pleased to announce that the tenth International
Somatechnics Conference will be held in Byron Bay. The conference is
co-hosted by the University of Queensland and Southern Cross University,
with the support of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of
Excellence for the History of Emotions.

The term “somatechnics” was coined in 2003, as a means by which to
rethink the relationship between technologies and embodiment. As Nikki
Sullivan argues: ”/techné/is not something we add or apply to the
already constituted body (as object), nor is it a tool that the embodied
self employs to its own ends. Rather, /technés/ are the dynamic means in
and through which corporealities are crafted” (/TSQ /1.1-2 2014).

This conference is intended to extend this focus on bodily techniques
and embodied technologies to engage with recent theories of time and
temporalities, as well as feminist, queer and trans historiography.
Philosophies of time and critical investigations of past, present and
future technologies have long been important concerns in studies of
embodiment. Studies of the historical construction of gender and
embodied memory, as well as various durational approaches to
materiality, have revealed the important role played by technicity and
temporality in the construction of corporealities. Points of
intersection and divergence between such critical conceptions of time
and technology, and recent science studies open up a further set of
directions.

We welcome a broad range of papers and presentations on the technologies
and temporalities of the body. These might include, but are not
restricted to, the following perspectives:

·Gender, queer and/or trans studies

·Histories of gender and/or sexuality

·New Materialisms

·Biopolitics

·The anthropocene

·Science studies

·Critical race studies

·Disability and/or crip theory

·Digital cultures

·Visual and literary cultures

·Art history and theory

*Confirmed Keynote Speakers*

Vicki Kirby (University of New South Wales)

Suvendrini Perera (Curtin University)

Susan Stryker (University of Arizona)

Valerie Traub (University of Michigan)

Organised by Elizabeth Stephens (Southern Cross University) and Karin
Sellberg (University of Queensland)

The deadline for abstracts is *Friday April 15, 2016*. Proposals for
individual papers or presentations, or panels, are welcome. Please send
your proposals to:

*(technotemporalities /at/ gmail.com)* <mailto:(technotemporalities /at/ gmail.com)>**

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*For further details and continual updates, visit our conference website:*

*https://technotemporalities.wordpress.com***

*or Facebook event page:***

*_https://www.facebook.com/events/172475506454714/_*

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