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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The programme for this symposium is now available on our website, <span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.ched.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=159754&pid=40622">http://www.ched.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=159754&pid=40622</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Please note the change of venue. The symposium will now be held at the </span>Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Virtual Anatomies: The Cultural Impact of New Medical Imaging Technologies</span></strong><b><span style='color:black'><br></span></b><span style='color:black'> <br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Date</span></strong>: August 30-31, 2011<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Venue</span></strong>: </span>Level 7 Auditorium of the Queensland Brain Institute<span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> </span>The University of Queensland<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Street Address: </span>Building 79, Upland Road, St Lucia. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Map: <a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&id=277">http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&id=277</a><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Please consult the </span>University of Queensland website for public transport and parking options<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Registration</span></strong><span style='color:black'>: Free, but essential for catering purposes. Please note if you are only attending part of the symposium.<br><br>Over the last ten years, new imaging technologies have come to play an increasingly important role in medical research and practice. During the same period, images of the body produced by these technologies have begun to circulate across a broad range of popular contexts. On television shows, in government health campaigns and advertising for commercial products, images of the body’s interior have been widely represented as revealing the truth about the body and its condition. The aim of this symposium is to assess the cultural impact of such images in reshaping how bodies are seen and understood in a variety of popular, commercial and clinical contexts. <br><br>The range of applications of medical imaging technologies is growing exponentially: from the development of virtual anatomical atlases like Human Genome and Visible Human Projects, to the use of MRI and PET images as legal evidence, the recent turn to the biological in psychiatric practice, the commercialisation of brain scanning in neuromarketing and neuroenhancement, and the emergence of new biological arts. For this reason, the extent to which these technologies form an important lens through which contemporary publics are trained to see the body is only likely to increase in the years ahead. <br><br>Bringing together neuroscientists, philosophers, artists, bioethicists, medical researchers, historians and cultural theorists, “Virtual Anatomies: The Cultural Impact of New Medical Imaging Technologies” will consider the medical, ethical, aesthetic and philosophical issues raised by the increasing use of imaging technologies in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In so doing, the symposium is intended take account of the new intersections of art, science and bodies to which these technologies are currently giving rise. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Topics to be examined include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:black'>• the new clinical and commercial applications of imaging technologies<br>• the historical conditions that have shaped their emergence and public reception <br>• the philosophical and bioethical considerations they raise<br>• the cultural, artistic and commercial purposes to which they are put<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>This free event is supported by a University of Queensland Foundation Research Excellence Award. Members of the public are welcome to attend. <br><br>For more information, please contact Elizabeth Stephens: </span><a href="mailto:e.stephens@uq.edu.au">e.stephens@uq.edu.au</a><span style='color:black'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>To register for the symposium, please contact Rebekah Oldfield <a href="mailto:r.oldfield@uq.edu.au">r.oldfield@uq.edu.au</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Abstracts and information on speakers will be updated on the conference website as available: <a href="http://www.ched.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=159754&pid=40622">http://www.ched.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=159754&pid=40622</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Elizabeth Stephens<br>ARC Research Fellow</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Deputy Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Centre for the History of European Discourses<br>Deputy Associate Dean of Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Faculty of Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>University of Queensland Australia 4072<br>Phone: 61 7 3346 9493<br>Fax: 61 7 3346 9495</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR style='color:black'>Webpage: </span><span style='color:black'><a href="https://exchange.uq.edu.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://uq.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens" target="_blank"><span lang=FR style='color:blue'>http://uq.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens</span></a></span><span lang=FR><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>