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Fat Studies Area, Midwest Popular Culture Association, October 1-3, 2010
| Location: | Minnesota, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2010-04-30 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-04-05 |
| Announcement ID: |
175390 |
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Fat Studies Area, Midwest Popular Culture Association
October 1-3, 2010
Minneapolis, MN
Proposals and short bios due April 30, 2010 to
Elena Levy-Navarro at levye@uww.edu
The Fat Studies Area of the MPCA solicits proposals of either full panels, roundtables, individual papers, or forms of artistic expression for its annual conference. Critical discussions of fat, thin, and body size are welcome, especially those that either consider or counter phobic constructions of the present-day.
Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:
„h cross-cultural or cross-historical consideration of fat, thin, and/or body size;
„h considerations of alternate or parodic understandings of fat, especially those that subvert, challenge, or simply ignore a dominant western understanding of obesity
„h considerations of the operations of power that circulate around the thin body (i.e. thin privilege);
„h considerations of how material circumstances create and stigmatize ¡§fat¡¨ and/or ¡§obese¡¨ bodies; imaginings of alternative material circumstances that would create a very different understanding of the body;
„h considerations of various types of fatphobia, including those in academia;
„h considerations of diet discourse, diet industry, and the compulsion it demands of bodies;
„h considerations of health/disease and beauty/ugliness in
relationship to body size;
„h considerations of how concepts of body size intersect with race, ethnicity, ability, sex, gender, class, and/or ability.
For more information on the organization and the conference, please go to http://www.mpcaaca.org
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Elena Levy-Navarro
Associate Professor
Program in English
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Whitewater, WI 53190
(262) 472-5047
Email: levye@uww.edu
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