The Body and Culture area welcomes papers, presentations, and panels involving scholarly inquiry that address the intersection of the body and culture. The Body and Culture Area encourages interdisciplinary dialogue over the body as text, both literal and discursive, and how the body’s production of meaning is socially, culturally, historically, psychologically, economically, and/or politically located. Papers may address the meanings culture writes onto bodies, the origins of those meanings, and the impact those meanings have on bodies so inscribed.
We welcome topics of any nature dealing with the body: gendered, agendered, and hyper-gendered bodies, absent and present bodies, bodies that conform, bodies that resist, bodies in media, bodies as media, bodies as activism, bodies in conflict, bodies as resistance, live bodies, dead bodies, mediatized bodies, bodies on stage, bodies on screen, fit bodies, unfit bodies, well bodies, unwell bodies and bodies in movement and bodies in stillness.
Papers should address popular culture explicitly, and methodologies from across disciplines, cultural contexts, and historical periods are welcome. Papers from scholars and practitioners are welcome, and full panels are especially encouraged to apply.
Please submit a 250-word abstract along with a 75 to100 word biographical statement.
I look forward to hearing from you and I hope to see you in Seattle!
Tony Kemerly, PhD
