<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><bigger>Hi all,
This conference begs for disability angle.
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</color>From: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Allison Muri <<[log in to unmask]>
<bold></color>Subject: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>CFP: Imaging and (Re)Imagining Bodies in States (11/15; 8/17-8/20)
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</color>Conference Theme:
This will be the third in the series of Body Projects organized by
the Humanities Research Unit at the University of Saskatchewan. This
Project will emphasize new imaging technologies such as fiber optics,
magnetic resonance, ultrasound, and computerized tomography which
claim to make "the natural world" visible while promising greater
understanding of the human body and of life itself. These visual
technologies, like their historical antecedents, have had a profound
impact on human self-understanding and interaction, not least because
they obscure or ignore some bodily features in order to make others
more visible than hitherto. What was true of human dissection, the
microscope, and the x-ray, is at least as true of recent innovations
which have, perhaps, achieved an unprecedented reimagining of the
human body. These enhancements of the medical gaze are contributions
to science, but they have consequences also for broader professional
and popular assumptions and debate about the relation between health
and knowledge. Grounded in discourses of race, class, gender,
sexuality, and colonization, the human body is available to us only
through such mediations and hence as a contested scientific, ethical,
imaginative, and social site.
This conference invites scholars from all disciplines to come
together and share ideas about the imaging and imagining of human
bodies.
We welcome completed papers (15 page maximum), proposals, or
suggestions for performances which critically examine or simulate the
social, literary, cultural, and historical construction of bodies and
their intersections with medical/scientific and popular imaging
techonologies.
Deadline for submissions:
November 15, 1999
Event date:
August 17 to 20, year 2000
Location:
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Sponsors:
Humanities Research Unit, and Department of Women's and Gender
Studies,
University of Saskatchewan
Keynote Speakers:
Brian Turner, Louise Halfe, Pat Kaufert
Contact:
Dr. L.M. Findlay
Humanities Research Unit
c/o English Department
University of Saskatchewan
Arts Building
9 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5
Telephone: (306) 966-5506 Telefax: (306) 966-5951
Email: [log in to unmask]
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