A symposium that may be of interest to any list members based in Australia.
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Lex of Somatechnics: Bodies, Technologies, Law.
A symposium sponsored by the Somatechnics Research Centre and the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University.
LEX: Law is both literally and symbolically invested with a constituting power: it violently founds and demarcates points of origin and thence proceeds to constitute and deploy the apparatuses and technologies that will enable its operations of governance.
SOMA: The corpus of law is, in turn, constituted by its multiple bodies. Bodies are at once the agents of law, ensuring its biopolitical reproduction, and sites of corporeal recalcitrance and productive transformation.
TECHNE: No technologies and techniques of inscription, no law or bodies.
This one-day symposium brings together scholars from diverse disciplinary formations in order critically to examine the somatechnics of law. In the context of a biopolitical environment generating laws invested with the capillary power to reach into the most intimate recesses of the body, this symposium examines the complex array of technologies of law being developed to govern, regulate and surveil bodies. Situated in this context, this symposium will attempt to map contemporary somatechnics of law and the complex ways in which bodies both reproduce and transform law.
Date: Friday 4 July 2008
Venue: Whiteley Room, U@MQ Building, Macquarie University
Schedule and abstracts attached.
Speakers: David Caudill, Villanova University, Philadelphia; Denise Da Silva, University of California, San Diego; Maria Giannacopoulos, Macquarie University, Sydney; Gaia Giuliani, University di Bologna, Bologna; Samar Habib, University of Western Sydney, Sydney; Penny Pether, Villanova University, Philadelphia; Joseph Pugliese, Macquarie University, Sydney; Juliet Rogers, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Dinesh Wadiwal, Independent Scholar.
NOTE: For non-Macquarie University guests: Parking at Macquarie is on a pay-and-display basis. For further information, visit http://www.ofm.mq.edu.au/parking_fees.htm. Note that casual parking is available in the W4, X3, X4, N1 and N3 car parks - see map for locations.
Jon Seltin
Departmental Administrator
Department of Critical & Cultural Studies
Building W6A Room 827
Macquarie University
North Ryde
N.S.W. 2109
Phone: 61 2 9850 8778
Fax: 61 2 9850 6893
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