TALKING BODIES 2015
31st March - 2nd April 2015
An international, inter-disciplinary, conference at the University of Chester
This is the second international, interdisciplinary TALKING BODIES conference. Scholars, practitioners, researchers and postgraduate students from a wide range of disciplines (art, performance, art history, social history, and history of science, literary criticism, theology, (eco)feminism, political theory, medicine, jurisprudence, and more) will be attending. Questions they will consider include (but are absolutely not limited to):
- How does the idea of the ‘taboo’ impact on self-perception? How do writers and artists articulate that taboo?
- How do visual artists represent the complexities of the embodied self? Or, how can writers, performers, or musicians do so?
- How is sexual identity articulated by and in the body?
- What happens when the ‘talking body’ conflicts with the ‘talking mind’?
- How do (consensual or non-consensual) body modifications silence the body, or ‘allow’ it to ‘talk’?
- What relationships do erotica, porn and the ‘obscene’ have with the embodied self?
- How does representation of the body facilitate political activism?
- Where do gender and ideology intersect on the site of ‘the body’?
- Is language ever sufficient in talking about bodies?
In addition to the conference presentations, there will be an exciting keynote speaker; a conference ‘Marketplace’ with book and craft stalls; a feminist pub quiz; and much more!
You can read about the 2013 TALKING BODIES conference here:http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/vagina-dialogue-and-bodies-in-evidence/2002780.article
email: talkingbodies@chester.ac.uk (Queries about the conference should also be directed to this email address. Please note that there are NO funds available to subsidise delegates’ costs.)
Twitter: @talking_bodies
