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Amy H. Gardner, MD, MPh, PhD
Medical Anthropologist and Iyanifa
Independent Scholar, Educator and Consultant
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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:06:25 -0600
Subject: Call for Papers: Body and Awareness--The Discourse Between
Anthropology and Literature
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Call for Papers: Body and Awareness--The Discourse Between
Anthropology and Literature
25-27 May 2012 Zadar, Croatia
The conference would like to establish a forum for debate and dialogue
on current theory, practice and form of anthropological and literary
work in social and cultural conceptualizations of body and awareness.
We are inviting papers from all disciplines, which present theoretical
and historical study on the overall topic: Body and Awareness. The
Discourse between Anthropology and Literature.
Following the trace of Csordas' anthropology of embodiment and Nancy's
theory of “writing the body,” intending to elaborate further on the
discourse of semiotics (intertextuality) and phenomenology
(intersubjectivity), we would like to include awareness as a
phenomenon which we consider pivotal in understanding and
deconstructing the common dualities of body and mind, body and self
etc.
On the level of discourse we challenge the current crisis in
representation to the point of encounter of anthropology and
literature and look for ways of 'incorporating' awareness/embodiment
in cultural theory. Such theory lives up to the blurred shaping of
cultural practice as it manifests itself today in all spheres of
social, literary and artistic life: concentrating on ambiguous
strategies stretching between archive and vision, confinement and
transgression, and searching into the human condition of embodied
awareness.
In such a context, 'body' is becoming both agent and receiver of
processes of awareness, while 'awareness' remains the witness of both
bodily and conscious epistemological and practical acts. Embodiment as
lived experience is a cultural phenomenon which can neither be
perceived as equivocal with 'person' nor as clearly distinct. The
process of de-ontologizing the difference and non-difference between
body and awareness raises the question: how to objectify the ‘body’
which is our own? Only as an act of eccentric awareness which is
simultaneously both the experience of existential presence and the
representation of an objectified and recognizable abstraction. Each
claim, either of identity or difference between body and awareness
leads us into paradoxes, since in both cases while aiming at truth we
get entangled in fictions.
Apart from reframing theoretical presumptions about embodiment as
being-in-the-world, we want to discuss various modalities of its
appearance in the stream of life – from biological, individual,
social, political, cultural, narrative and performing formations of
the lived body to the ultimately dead body in its social encounters
and literary anticipations.
Crucial questions will be raised: Are we in intercultural situations
embodied in the same way as on our cultural home-ground? Does every
transnational experience require new embodiment? To look for answers
we welcome particularly, but not exclusively, studies which depart
from multisited ethnographies and postcolonial or migrant literatures
which genuinely challenge any given concept and idea of body,
awareness and embodiment.
Thus language enters the discourse of experience, and writing on
cultural diversities enables the crossing of disciplinary borders as
an instance of embodiment that in the same act performs and witnesses
its own emergence as a dynamic that goes beyond the negotiations about
identity and difference of ‘body’ and ‘awareness’ as separate
entities.
We invite papers engaging with such shifting horizons in the discourse
on “Body and Awareness” on the levels of human experience, reflection
and imagination, in writing, performing arts and rituals, and within
social groups as well as individual lives. The impact of rapid global
changes forces us into new ways of thinking in the search for
meaningful orientations and solutions of emerging problems, locally
and worldwide. Papers might therefore focus on lived experience either
in political, religious or artistic and literary spheres of human
practice.
Date and Venue
25-27 May 2012, University of Zadar, New Campus (Novi kampus), dr.
Franje Tudjmana 24 i
Organizing Committee
Snježana Zorić, University of Zadar, Croatia
Gert Hofmann, University College Cork, Ireland
Mario Katić, University of Zadar, Croatia
Keynote Speakers
Klaus-Peter Köpping, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Frank Chamberlain, University College Cork, Ireland
Submission Details
Abstracts (up to 350-words in Word doc.), should be sent to the
conference E-mail address ([log in to unmask]), Snježana Zorić
([log in to unmask]) or Gert Hofmann ([log in to unmask]) by 15th February
2012. Please include short biography, contact details and
institutional affiliation.
You will be informed about acceptance or non-acceptance of your
proposal by 29th February 2012.
Conference participation fees
Participation fee is – € 100
Participation fee for PhD and postdoctoral research students is – € 50.
The participation fee includes all symposium proceedings, daytime
refreshments and two excursions into the Velebit Mountains where we
are going to see mirila (a unique funeral custom) and to the old
castle of Benkovac in Zadar hinterland.
Enquiries
For queries regarding academic issues please contact either Snježana
Zorić ([log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]) or Gert Hofmann
([log in to unmask]).
Queries about organizational issues may be addressed to Mario Katić
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All information will be regularly updated on www.bodyandawareness.info
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