Marxism & Psychology Research Group (MPRG)

CFP - OUR BODIES, OUR SHELVES:  EMBODIED CULTURAL STUDIES

The Critical Feminist Studies Division of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites abstracts for papers for the 8th Annual Meeting, March 18-20, 2010 in Berkeley, CA.

What do we mean by 'our body of work'?  This session seeks to bring together new and critical approaches to the body.  Too often, discussions of the body actually deaden or erase the urging, sensing, feeling body -- particularly the body of the researcher and theorist.

Some possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- new theoretical approaches to immanence
- new questions of biopolitics, the surveillance and control of bodies
- affect, emotion, intimacy
- new bodies and populations: girls, the detained, the masked contagious
- technologies of the body
- new subjectivities of display, exhibition
- materiality and material culture
- the trans/transitioning body, sex-reassignment surgeries
- anti-bodies (anti-aging, antioxidants, anti-bacterial, anti-retrovirals, etc.)
- social, cultural and political bodies
- ideal/ized bodies
- disease and the body, epidemics
- consuming for the environmentally-friendly green body
- globalization through, produced from the body
- women's bodies in feminist movement/feminist theory
- bio-privileges
- the body in/and culture industries
- fat studies, obesity, BMI
- new connections between Phenomenology and Cultural Studies
- Disability Studies
- the physical experience of research, Cultural Studies as always already embodied

Critical Feminist Studies dedicates itself to work that builds upon, even as it critiques, the institutions and practices of Women's and Gender Studies, focusing in particular on transnational formations and movements, queer and sexuality studies, and politics, practices, and representations. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Studies_Association)

One of the aims of the Division is to open up a critical space for the ideas and initiatives of young/junior scholars within Cultural Studies.

To submit, please include the following:

1.  Your name, email address, phone number, and institutional affiliation;
2.  Title and 500 word abstract for the paper/presentation/performance;
3.  Any audio-visual equipment needs.

The deadline for submission is September 10, 2009.

Send inquires and submissions to:

Sarah L. Rasmusson
sarahrasmusson@yahoo.com
Chair, Critical Feminist Studies Division

Sarah L. Rasmusson
Fellow
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH)
University of Illinois
srasmus3@illinois.edu
217-721-7733 (mobile)
217-265-0308 (office)