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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>The deadline for submissions to the conference below is Friday, April 15! Send us your abstracts of ca 150-250 words for papers/panels/presentations/artworks and a short bio to
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20pt;">Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment:</span></strong><br>
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<strong><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">the 10<sup>th</sup> International <span class="il">Somatechnics</span> </span></em></strong></p>
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<strong><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Conference</span></em></strong></p>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">Byron Bay, NSW, Australia, December 1-3, 2016</span></strong><strong><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></em></strong></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 <span class="il">Somatechnics</span> Conference will be held in Byron Bay. 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 “<span class="il">somatechnics</span>” was coined in 2003, as a means by which to rethink the relationship between technologies and embodiment. As Nikki Sullivan argues: ”</span><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">techné</span></em><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, <em>technés</em> are the dynamic means in and through which corporealities are crafted” (<em>TSQ </em>1.1-2
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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, panels, art initiatives and other types of 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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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<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>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">Confirmed Keynote Speakers</span></strong></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 <strong>Friday April 15, 2016</strong>. Proposals for individual papers or presentations, or panels, are welcome. Please send proposals of ca 150-250 words and a short bio to:</span></p>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">For further details and continual updates, visit our conference website:</span></strong></p>
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