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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20pt">Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment:</span></b></p>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">the 10<sup>th</sup> International Somatechnics Conference</span></i></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Byron Bay December 1-3, 2016</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"></span></i></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Following recent conferences in </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Linköping</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"> (2013), Otago (2014) and Tucson (2015), we are pleased to announce that the
tenth International Somatechnics Conference will be held in Byron Bay from Dec 1-3, 2016. The conference is co-hosted by the University of Queensland and Southern Cross University, with the support of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence
for the History of Emotions.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">The term “somatechnics” was coined in 2003, as a new critical framework through which to rethink the relationship between technologies and embodiment. As Nikki Sullivan argues: ”</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">techné</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"> is
not something we add or apply to the already constituted body (as object), nor is it a tool that the embodied self employs to its own ends. Rather, <i>technés</i> are the dynamic means in and through which corporealities are crafted” (<i>TSQ </i>1.1-2 2014).</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">This conference is intended to extend this focus on bodily techniques and embodied technologies to engage with recent theories of time and temporalities, as well as feminist, queer and trans historiography. Philosophies
of </span><span style="font-size:10pt">time and critical investigations of past, present and future technologies have long been important concerns in studies of embodiment. Studies of the historical construction of gender and embodied memory, as well as various
durational approaches to materiality, have revealed the important role played by technicity and temporality in the construction of corporealities. Points of intersection and divergence between such critical conceptions of time and technology, and recent science
studies open up a further set of directions.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">We welcome a broad range of papers and presentations on the technologies and temporalities of the body. These might include, but are not restricted to, the following perspectives:</span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Gender, queer and/or trans studies</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Histories of gender and/or sexuality</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">New Materialisms</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Biopolitics</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">The anthropocene</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Science studies</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Critical race studies</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Disability and/or crip theory</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Digital cultures</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Visual and literary cultures</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">·<span style="font-size:7pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Art history and theory</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">· Animal studies<br>
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">· Posthumanism</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Vicki Kirby (University of New South Wales)</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Suvendrini Perera (Curtin University)</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Susan Stryker (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">University of Arizona)</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Valerie Traub (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">University of Michigan)</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Organised by Elizabeth Stephens (Southern Cross University) and Karin Sellberg (University of Queensland)</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">The deadline for abstracts is <b>Friday April 15, 2016</b>. Proposals for individual papers and presentations, or organised panels and streams, are welcome. Please send your proposals to:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:medium">E</span><span style="font-size:medium">lizabeth Stephens</span><br>
<span style="font-size:medium">Associate Professor in Cu</span><span style="font-size:medium">ltural Studies</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:medium"></span><font face="Calibri" style="font-size:medium">Academia page: </font><a href="https://scu-au.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens" target="_blank" title="https://scu-au.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens Cmd+click or tap to follow link" id="LPNoLP" style="font-size:medium">https://scu.au.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens</a>
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