[csaa-forum] CFP closing in 1 week: Migration, Affect & the Senses Conference

[Amanda Wise]

CFP CLOSES IN ONE WEEK  - Next Friday 23rd April
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******MIGRATION, AFFECT & THE SENSES*****

Thurs 17th & Fri 18th June 2004
Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, 
Australian National University


CALL FOR PAPERS

Sensuality, sound, sight, smell, touch, taste, breath, hear, feel,
synaesthesia, proximate, vertigo, experiential, material, ritual, flesh,
bones, possession, nerves, nausea, fear, love, hate, faith, belief,
comfort, hope, joy, despair, longing, trauma, guilt, shame, pride,
habitus and habituation.

This is the stuff of affect and the senses. Although scholars are
increasingly aware of embodied experience, little is yet known about how
sensory and affective bodies articulate with cultural difference,
migration and experiences of displacement. This two day conference
explores how the sensory and affective registers of experience
articulate with:

1) Migration and transnational lives.
2) Living with difference in culturally diverse cities. 

We invite proposals that engage with the bodily, sensory and affective
dimensions of either of these streams.  Possible topics include but are
not limited to:

* Affect, embodiment and sensibility in the multicultural city
* Affect, the senses and intercultural relations
* Habitus and diversity
* Habitus and migration
* Migration and food
* Migration and music, aural cultures, dance
* Migration and love
* Ritual, faith and migration 
* Migration emotion and affect
* Migration and sensory recall/memory of the homeland
* The senses and affect in dis and em/placement


Keynote speakers include:

PROFESSOR PAUL STOLLER, 
West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Author of The 'Taste of Ethnographic Things', 'Sensuous Scholarship',
and 'Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City'.

DR MANDY THOMAS
Australian National University
Author of 'Dreams in the Shadows: Vietnamese-Australian Lives in
Transition', and 'Moving Landscapes: National Parks and the Vietnamese
Experience'.

PROFESSOR ELSPETH PROBYN
University of Sydney
Elspeth has published several books in these areas, including Sexing the
Self, Outside Belongings, Carnal Appetites, Sexy Bodies. Her forthcoming
book, Blush: Faces of Shame (Minnesota UP, 2004) interrogates shame from
several different perspectives.


Please submit abstracts of 250 words or less with a short biographical
paragraph by Friday 23rd April 2004 to adam.chapman at anu.edu.au 

Registration details and conference info at www.anu.edu.au/culture

Enquiries to: amanda.wise at anu.edu.au