Indeed
Has anyone here heard of the field of study called Teratology? It is the
study of birth defects. From memory, the etymology of the prefix "terato"
has something to do with "monster". I was not born with what would be
considered a birth defect but recall my mother referring to me as a "little
monster" anyway :-)
At 03:20 PM 21/11/2002 -1000, David Pfeiffer wrote:
>Shall we storm the Bastile or do you think they would even know why we
>were protesting? David
>
>
>
>Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:40:36 -0500
>From: [log in to unmask]
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>Subject: SPOON-ANN: Monstrosity: Brown Graduate Conference
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>MONSTROSITY
>
>EQUINOXES 2003
>
>
>Brown University's Department of French Studies Announces Its Eleventh
>Annual Equinoxes Graduate
>Student Conference
>
>
>March 14-15, 2003
>
>Brown University
>
>
>Equinoxes 2003 will address questions raised in French and francophone
>literature, film, and art regarding
>monstrosity and monsters. What are the functions of monsters in literary
>and artistic works? Why do we
>introduce monsters in the literary space? What do they
>tell us about who we are? What is the specificity of the literary and
>artistic discourse on monsters? Can
>literature be monstrous?
>
>
>We welcome proposals - in French or in English - treating all periods,
>genres and places that discuss these
>or related issues. Panels may include but are not limited to:
>
>
>1) Monsters and Representation of Reality
>
>Through traditional oppositions (nature/culture, natural/supernatural,
>beauty/beast, good/evil)
>
>
>2) Monsters and Technology
>
>Man as father of the monster, Monstrous machines & loss of control,
>Medicine and the human body
>(prosthesis)
>
>
>3) Monstrosity and Humanity
>
>The monstrous as indicator of humanity (limits, coexistence,
>interdependence), Monstrosity as social,
>cultural, political alterity
>
>
>4) Monster as Public Enemy
>
>Moral monstrosity and human destruction (cruelty, torture, genocide),
>Punishment of the monstrous,
>Comic/tragic representations of monstrosity (correction/purge of the
>social body)
>
>
>5) Reproduction of the Monster
>
>Monstrous heredity
>
>
>6) Woman as Monster
>
>Representations of women in the dialectic threat/fascination for male order
>
>
>7) Monster/Sexuality
>
>"Sexual deviance"
>
>
>8) Monster and Creation
>
>The monstrous writer/artist, Monstrous texts
>
>
>9) Specificities and variants of discourse on the Monster
>
>Normative and monstrous (taxonomy, categorization of the Monster),
>Relation between scientific and literary
>discourses, Artistic representations of the Monster, The Monster today
>(representations in the media)
>
>
>Reading time will be limited to 20 minutes. Please submit a one-page
>abstract, a title, and your contact
>information by January 20, 2003 to [log in to unmask] or to the
>following address:
>
>
>Katharine Harrington, Equinoxes 2003 Department of French Studies
>
>Box 1961 Brown University Providence, RI 02912
>
>
>For additional information, contact [log in to unmask] For a general
>overview of Equinoxes Graduate
>Student Conferences, you may access the conference website at:
>www.brown.edu/Departments/French/Frenchpage/Equinox_2003/
>index.html
>
>_______________________________
>
>
>
>LA MONSTRUOSIT
>
>EQUINOXES 2003
>
>
>Le Dpartement des Etudes Franaises de Brown University a le plaisir
>d'annoncer la onzime dition de
> Equinoxes , confrence annuelle des tudiants doctorants
>
>
>du 14 au 15 mars 2003
>
>
>
>Brown University
>
>
>Equinoxes 2003 sera ax autour de questions touchant la monstruosit et aux
>monstres travers la
>littrature, le cinma et l'art franais et francophones. Quelle est la
>fonction des monstres dans les oeuvres
>littraires et artistiques ? Pourquoi introduisons-nous des monstres dans
>l'espace littraire ? Que nous
>disent-ils sur nous-mmes ? Quelle est la spcificit du discours littraire
>et artistique sur les monstres ?
>La littrature, peut-elle tre monstrueuse ?
>
>
>Nous accueillons des propositions--en anglais ou en franais--qui traitent
>de ces questions, telles qu'elles
>sont articules au travers des sicles, des genres et des lieux. Les panels
>pourront se rattacher aux axes
>suivants, sans s'y limiter :
>
>
>1)Monstre et reprsentation du monde
>
>A travers les oppositions traditionnelles nature/culture,
>naturel/surnaturel ou merveilleux, beaut/hideur et
>difformit, bien/mal
>
>
>2)Monstre et technique
>
>L'homme comme pre du monstre, La machine monstrueuse et dpassement de son
>crateur, Le travail sur
>le corps humain (mdecine, prothses)
>
>
>3)Monstruosit et humanit
>
>Le monstrueux comme rvlateur de l'humain (questions de la limite, de la
>coexistence, de
>l'interdpendance), Monstruosit comme altrit sociale, culturelle, politique
>
>
>4)Monstre comme ennemi de l'humain
>
>Monstruosit morale et destruction de l'humain (cruaut, torture, gnocide),
>Chtiment du monstrueux,
>Reprsentations comiques/tragiques (correction du corps social)
>
>
>5)Reproduction du monstre
>
>L'hrdit monstrueuse
>
>
>6)La femme comme monstre
>
>Peintures de la femme dans le cadre dialectique menace/fascination du sexe
>masculin.
>
>
>7)Monstre/sexualit
>
>"Dviances sexuelles"
>
>
>8) Monstre et cration
>
>L'crivain & l'artiste monstrueux, Le texte monstrueux
>
>
>9)Spcificits et varits des discours sur le monstre
>
>Le normatif et le monstrueux (taxinomie, catgorisation du monstre),
>Relation entre discours scientifiques
>(mdicales, psychiatriques, et sciences humaines) et littraires sur la
>monstruosit, Reprsentations
>artistiques du monstre, Quelle est l'actualit du monstre ?
>
>
>Prire d'envoyer un rsum de 300 500 mots (en anglais ou en franais), avec
>un titre ainsi que vos
>coordonnes avant le 20 janvier 2003, pour une communication de 20
>minutes l'une des addresses
>suivantes : [log in to unmask] ou :
>
>
>Katharine Harrington, Equinoxes 2003 Department of French Studies
>
>Box 1961 Brown University Providence, RI 02912
>
>
>Pour des renseignements supplmentaires, contactez [log in to unmask]
>Vous pouvez galement
>visiter le site et accder aux programmes de cette anne et des ditions
>prcdentes :
>www.brown.edu/Departments/French/Frenchpage/Equinox_2003/
>index.html
>
>
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>David Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
>Resident Scholar
>Center on Disability Studies
>University of Hawaii at Manoa
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>One small step for mankind and I fall flat on my face.
>D. Pfeiffer, July 4, 2003
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