[csaa-forum] CFP: (Re)Figuring Sex Conference EXTENDED DEADLINE

[Samantha Murray]

** PLEASE CIRCULATE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES **

* We have extended our deadline for abstracts until Friday 31 July 2009. *


(Re)Figuring Sex: Somatechnical (Re)Visions

20-21st November 2009
Sydney Australia

Recent theory has thoroughly critiqued traditional ways of imag(in)ing
sex/gender and sexuality, challenging its tendency to render invisible those
ways of being in the world which undermine such normative structures. Such
critiques have developed sophisticated ways of understanding embodiment and
its representation, investigating perception/s, issues of visibility and
visuality, and the effects on the lived experiences of those both within and
without the norm: the effects of sexed imaginaries shape the experiences of
the unusual and anomalous, and the everyday and conventional. This
conference, the 5th international Somatechnics conference, takes as its
central concern, then, the interplay between visuality and embodiment, and
seeks papers engaged across a variety of areas extending from critical
engagements with representations of sex and/or bodies, through to analyses
of the shaping of perception/s as one facet of bodily being-in-the-world.

Paper topics might include:

* Phenomenology of perception/s, particularly their denaturalisation
* Representation, especially of bodies, sex/gender and sexuality
* Representations of /as resistance to norms of sex/gender and sexuality
* Modes of spectatorship, both normative and non-normative
* The gaze (filmic and medical), the look, the stare
* Images of the body and body images
* Perceptions of bodies in/of space
* Female masculinities, male femininities, butch, femme, trans* and other
styles/figurations of bodily being
* Seeing pathology, and other aspects of the medical gaze
* Interventions in normative imaginaries
* Panoptics and panopticism
* Visual imaginaries
* Practices of visuality
* Filmic modes of visuality
* Televisuality

Abstracts of 300 words will be accepted up until Friday the 31st of July
2009, and should be forwarded to BOTH of the following email addresses:

Nikki.sullivan at scmp.mq.edu.au
somatechnicsadmin at gmail.com

For more information about somatechnics and the Somatechnics Research
Centre, please visit Http://www.somatechnics.mq.edu.au


Dr Samantha Murray
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Somatechnics Research Centre
Department of Media, Music & Cultural Studies
Faculty of Arts
Macquarie University
Email:  smurray78 at gmail.com
        samantha.murray at mq.edu.au