Conference: The Body: New Paradigms, Perspectives, and Practices
The Body: New Paradigms, Perspectives, and Practices
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Roderick A. Ferguson
Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
The Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) is pleased to hold an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on 鈥淭he Body: New Paradigms, Perspectives, and Practices鈥�. The conference will bring together the many graduate students at 91丝瓜视频 University working in this realm, from corporeality and the visual arts, body and performance art, architecture, music, and dance, to research on aging, scientific and medical approaches, plastic surgery, HIV-AIDS, food and nutrition, philosophies of beauty and fitness, literary and textual treatments of the body, queer space, disability studies, histories of the senses, geographies of sexuality and new media studies. 鈥淭he Body鈥� conference shares a keynote speaker, and events with the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies () conference which 91丝瓜视频 is hosting November 4-6.
