Apologies for cross-posting
The Sexual Divisions Study group of the British Sociological Association are
hosting a one-day conference on Gender, Aesthetics and the Body (Saturday
18th November, London Voluntary Sector Resources Centre, Holloway Road,
London N7). The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring
together those with an interest in any aspect of gender, aesthetics and the
body to exchange ideas and present Śwork in progressą as well as finished
papers. Please find below the confirmed list of speakers:
Anna Aalten (University of Amsterdam) - Bodies in Ballet: On Beauty, Power
and The Feminine
Sam Arnfeld (University of Portsmouth) and Joanna Brewis (University of
Essex) - Matter Over Mind? The Body, Pregnancy and The Self
Lucy Noakes (Southampton Institute) - Khaki Knickers and Woollen Stockings:
The Gendered Aesthetics of the Military Body for Women in Twentieth Century
Britain
Sarah Oerton (University of Glamorgan) - Touch Talk: Producing Embodied
Accounts of Fieldwork
Kathy Davis (Utrecht University) - Surgical Passing: Or Why Michael
Jackson's Nose Makes Us Uneasy
Nirmal Puwar (University College Northampton) - The Aesthetics of Bodies in
Leadership Through the Encounters of 'Space Invaders'
Ann Ruthven (Southampton Institute) - Disabling Advertising
Michael Perlin (New York Law School) - The Right of Institutionalized
Persons with Mental Disabilities to Voluntary Sexual Interaction: Beyond the
Last Frontier?
Richard Sawdon Smith (Surrey Institute of Art and Design) - "A Naked Man
Suffering from Water Retention in His Testicles": Photography and the
Representation of Disease
Tamsin Wilton (University of the West of England) - There's a Hole in My
Theory: The Absent Vagina in Queer and Feminist Theories of The Body
Scilla Speet (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) - Lalique
Revisited: The 'Winged Sylph' 1898-1900.
If you would like to register for the conference, please contact Melissa
Tyler, School of Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, City
Campus, Cowcaddens Roads, Glasgow, G4 0BA. Tel: [+44] (0)141 331 3487
(direct). Fax: [+44] (0)141 331 3439 (departmental) or email:
[log in to unmask] for a programme and booking form. Alternatively, visit
the conference website at: www.dmbm.fsnet.co.uk/bsasdsg.html.
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