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CFP:"Bodies in Motion" The University of Rhode Islands Third Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
| Location: | Rhode Island, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-03-28 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-10-06 |
| Announcement ID: |
164429 |
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"Bodies in Motion"
The University of Rhode Islands Third Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference.
Saturday, March 28th, 2009.
Submission Deadline, Friday, November 28th, 2008.
Across academic disciplines, "bodies" animal, epistemological, textual, or otherwise defy singular definition and elude our efforts to pin them down. As they parallel, intersect, and inform one another, these "bodies" demand rigorous research, creative thinking, and ever-evolving methodologies. How do we account for these "bodies in motion" and the complex ecologies of knowledge that they form? From what critical perspectives scientific, mathematic, literary, historical, political, rhetorical, ethical, philosophical can we examine these "bodies" in order to learn from them and from others? The graduate community at the University of Rhode Island invites submissions for posters, papers, presentations, performances and panels from a variety of disciplines exploring "bodies in motion."
Possible topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Theorizing the body or bodies
Bodies and environmental crisis
The legal body
Economic bodies
Political bodies
Bodies and health care
Biotechnology and ethics of the body
Mass media and the global image of bodies
Migration, displacement, and/or diasporas
Bodies in literature
Bodies as machines/Machines as bodies
The aesthetics of movement
Bodies in the digital age
Bodies and the flow of technology
Artistic interpretations of the body
Submission Guidelines:
Please propose individual papers or panels and indicate whether you are willing to moderate a panel. Panels of 3-4 presentations are especially welcome.
To propose a paper, submit a cover page with your name; institutional affiliation; contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email); a 250-word abstract of the paper; a roughly 100-word bio; and a detailed request for audiovisual equipment (if needed). Presentations will be limited to fifteen minutes (about seven double-spaced pages).
To propose a panel, submit a cover page including the title of the panel and the names of presenters; a panel abstract of 150-250 words; a separate page with the names of presenters, their contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and institutional affiliation(s), the titles of their presentations; and a 250-word abstract for each paper. Panels will be one hour and fifteen minutes long.
The conference committee requests the submission of materials in the body of an email or as an attachment in a Word, text, or PDF document. All submissions should be emailed to gradcon@etal.uri.edu. Please refer any questions you may have to this address as well. The deadline for submissions is 8:00 a.m. on Friday, November 28th, 2008.
Notification of acceptance will be by Friday, December 19th, 2008.
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