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> On 19/01/2011 12:56, Helen Kay wrote:
>> Dear Kirsteen
>> Thank you for sending me a copy of the seminar programme - looks most 
>> interesting. 
>>  
>> I am sorry that I cannot attend today's seminar as I am interested in 
>> campaigning for the provision of sanitary facilities for girls and 
>> women in UK and abroad - so it would have been good to hear a more 
>> theoretically based view.  Is there any possibility of getting a copy 
>> of Lucy's paper?
>>  
>> Many thanks, Helen
>>
>> Helen Kay 7 Kings Cramond Edinburgh EH4 6RL Tel: 0131 336 5506  Mob: 
>> 07985 914143
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>> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:14:06 +0000
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>> Subject: Glasgow University Seminar Series Semester 2
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>> Dear colleagues
>>
>> Please find attached a programme outline for the Sociology Seminar 
>> Series, Semester 2.  Full abstracts for all of these seminars will 
>> follow shortly.  We would like to invite you to attend in what looks 
>> like an interesting programme of speakers. Seminars take place on 
>> Wednesdays, 4-5.30pm  in Room 706, Adam Smith Building, University of 
>> Glasgow. All welcome.
>>
>> Dr Lucy Pickering who recently joined Sociology will open the seminar 
>> series with her paper based on fieldwork in Hawai‘i, details below:
>>
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>> *Wednesday 19th January 4pm,  Room 706, Adam Smith Building,
>>
>> Lucy Pickering (University of Glasgow)
>>
>> No White Water Lilies:  Toilets, Bodies and Counterculture in Hawai‘i
>> *
>> Abstract: Defecation has received limited attention within the social 
>> sciences and humanities. Toilets not a great deal. Urination even 
>> less. However, examining the practice of composting faeces and 
>> ‘pee[ing] on any tree’ by white, West Coast US ‘hippies’ and 
>> ‘drop-outs’ living in Hawai’i suggests that the disposal of excreta is 
>> never simply disposal. Rather, it entails engagement with the state, 
>> one’s own body and sense of placedness. Through looking at the 
>> everyday defecatory practices of hippies and drop-outs in Hawai‘i, 
>> this paper seeks to examine the interplay of the acts of defecation 
>> and urination with the materiality of toilets themselves. Each depends 
>> on the other, and both exist in relation to various others: other 
>> toilet designs, other communities, other people. As such, it becomes 
>> possible to extend beyond Douglas’ argument that ‘dirt is matter out 
>> of place’ to explore the notion that – at least in relation to toilets 
>> – ‘dirt is relations out of place’. By placing relationships at the 
>> heart of this analysis of defecation and urination, this paper 
>> provides fertile ground for the exploration of embodiment at its most 
>> base level, as site of generative action and social critique. 
>>
>> Please contact me if you have any enquires about the seminar programme.
>>
>> We look forward to seeing you.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Dr Kirsteen Paton
>> Researcher (TVRGC project) and Lecturer
>> Sociology
>> School of Social and Political Sciences
>> Room S1005 Adam Smith Building
>> 40 Bute Gardens
>> University of Glasgow
>> G12 8RS
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>>
>> Tel. 0141 330 5070
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