Bodies

*BODIES*

* *

*February 25-27, 2010*

* *

* *

*Sponsored by the **Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,

Asian Studies, the Confucius Institute at USC, and Women’s and Gender

Studies*

* *

*Directed by Jeanne Garane, Jie Guo, Yvonne Ivory, and Ed Madden*

* *

*Plenary Speakers:*

Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard U, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Peter McIsaac, York U, German

* *

A lot has been said about bodies, yet the body still remains one of the most

contested concepts in a wide range of fields, such as art, anthropology,

history, literature, medicine, philosophy, religion, as well as the study of

gender and sexuality.  Thinking about bodies has occasioned ongoing

encounters, clashes, and border-crossings between these disciplines. **

The Program in Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina

invites submissions to an interdisciplinary conference entitled “Bodies,” to

be held in Columbia, SC, February 25-27, 2010. We welcome papers and panels

that examine bodies from any angle, and we especially encourage

cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Suggested topics include,

but are not limited to:

the ghostly body

the anorexic body

the medical body

bodies and biotechnology

the self-destructive body

the religious body

the Oriental body

racialized bodies

emotional bodies

animal bodies

cross-dressed bodies

transgendered bodies

invisible bodies

viewed bodies

philosophies of corporeality

corpses

the “undead” body

robots & cyborgs

the disabled body

the thinking body

the body in the arts

the body as metaphor

bodies of knowledge

loving bodies

corporeality and writing

body modification

border-crossing bodies

speaking bodies

bodies and the grotesque

bodies “East” and “West”

Please send 300-word proposals and short bios to jieguo@sc.edu and

yivory@sc.edu by *November 15, 2009.*

--

Dr. Ed Madden

Associate Professor of English

Director of Undergraduate Program in Women's and Gender Studies

University of South Carolina

Columbia SC 29208

emadden@sc.edu or edward.madden@gmail.com

803.777.2171 (work)

803.381.2451 (cell)

Comments

[hdi]

A voir