Dear all,
Here is info sent to me by Lesley Biggs, on a future conference in Canada
which looks exciting.
Diane
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS
Deadline for submissions, November 15, 1999
Event date: August 17 to 20, year 2000
Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Conference Title: Body Projects III: Imaging and (Re)Imagining Bodies in
States of Health, Wellness, and Illness
Venue: Colleges of Medicine and Arts and Science, University of
Saskatchewan
Sponsors: Humanities Research Unit, and Department of Women's and Gender
Studies, University of Saskatchewan
Conference Convenors: Lesley Biggs and Pamela Downe (Women's and Gender
Studies, U of S); and Len Findlay (HRU)
Keynote Speakers:
Louise Halfe, internationally known native poet and author of Bear
Bones (1994) and Blue Marrow (1997).
Patricia Kaufert, University of Manitoba, internationally known
scholar in women's health
Jonathan Sawday, University of Southampton, author of The Body
Emblazoned: Dissections and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture.
Bryan Turner, University of Cambridge, author of The Body and Society,
and numerous other books and articles.
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.
Contact Person: Len Findlay, Director, Humanities Research Unit, c/o
Department of English, University of Saskatchewan, College of Arts and
Science, 9 Campus Dr, Saskatoon, Sk. Canada
S7N 5A5. Tel.: (306) 966-5517 or 5506; FAX: (306) 966-5951; Email:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Website: http://www.usask.ca/hru
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