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June 02, 2008
The Face -- International Somatechnics Conference: The Technologisation of Bodies and Selves
CALL FOR PAPERS for panel on 'the face' to be included in the program of:
The Fifth International Somatechnics Conference: The Technologisation of Bodies and Selves
to be held in Sydney, Australia, on April 16th-18th 2009
Abstracts should be 300-500 words and should be forwarded to Prof Nikki Sullivan at the address listed below. Proposals for panels and for performance pieces are welcome.
"Somatechnics" is a recently coined term used to highlight the inextricability of soma and techné, of the body (as a culturally intelligible construct) and the techniques (dispositifs and ‘hard technologies’) in and through which bodies are formed and transformed. This term, then, supplants the logic of the ‘and’, indicating that technés are not something we add to or apply to the body, but rather, are the means in and through which bodies are constituted, positioned, and lived. As such, the term reflects contemporary understandings of the body as the incarnation or materialization of historically and culturally specific discourses and practices.
Deadline for abstracts: November 30th 2008
Keynote Speakers include:
Claudia Castaneda (Brandeis University)
Nichola Rumsey (University of the West of England)
Jennifer Terry (University of California, Irvine)
Further information:
The Somatechnics Conference Committee
Somatechnics Research Centre
Division of Society, Media, Culture and Philosophy
Macquarie University
North Ryde
New South Wales 2109
Australia
Email: nikki.sullivan at scmp.mq.edu.au or somatechnicsadmin at gmail.com
Somatechnics Research Centre Website: http://www.somatechnics.mq.edu.au
Please circulate this CFP to colleagues who may be interested
Posted by pfa at June 2, 2008 07:46 AM