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The conference would like to
establish a forum for debate and dialogue on current
theory, practice and form of anthropological,
literary and artistic work in social and cultural
conceptualizations of body and awareness. We invite
papers from all disciplines, which present
theoretical and historical study on the overall
topic: Body and Awareness. The Discourse between
Anthropology, Literature and the Arts.
Following the trace of Czordas’ anthropology of
embodiment and Nancy's theory of “writing the body,”
intending to elaborate further on the discourse of
semiotics (intertextuality) and phenomenology (intersubjectivity),
we would like to include awareness as a phenomenon
which we consider pivotal in understanding and
deconstructing the common dualities of body and mind,
body and self etc.
On the level of discourse we challenge the current
crisis in representation to the point of encounter
of anthropology with literature and art, and look
for ways of ‘incorporating’ awareness/embodiment in
cultural theory, stretching between archive and
vision, confinement and transgression, and searching
into the human condition of embodied awareness.
In such a context, ‘body’ becomes both agent and
receiver of processes of awareness, while
‘awareness’ remains the witness of both bodily and
conscious epistemological and practical acts.
Embodiment as lived experience is a cultural
phenomenon which can neither be perceived as
equivocal with ‘person’ nor as clearly distinct.
Apart from reframing theoretical presumptions about
embodiment as being-in-the-world, we want to discuss
various modalities of its appearance in the stream
of life – from biological, individual, social,
political, cultural, narrative and performing
formations of the lived body to the ultimately dead
body in its social encounters and artistic
anticipations.
Crucial questions will be raised: Are we in
intercultural situations embodied in the same way as
on our cultural home-ground? Does every
transnational experience require new embodiment? How
does an impulse of embodiment shape contemporary
world literature and art? To look for answers we
welcome studies which challenge any given concept
and idea of body, awareness and embodiment on the
levels of human experience, reflection and
imagination, in writing, arts and rituals,
historically and contemporary, and within social
groups as well as individual lives. The impact of
rapid global changes forces us into new ways of
thinking in the search for meaningful orientations
and solutions of emerging problems, locally and
worldwide.
Date and Venue
25-27 May 2012, University of Zadar, New Campus
(Novi kampus), dr. Franje Tudjmana 24 i
Organizing Committee
Snježana Zorić, University of Zadar, Croatia
Gert Hofmann, University College Cork, Ireland
Mario Katić, University of Zadar, Croatia
Keynote Speakers
Klaus-Peter Köpping, University of Heidelberg,
Germany
Frank Chamberlain, University College Cork, Ireland
Submission Details
Abstracts (up to 350-words in Word doc.), should be
sent to the conference E-mail address (boaazd@gmail.com),
Snježana Zorić (szoric@unizd.hr) or Gert Hofmann (g.hofmann@ucc.ie)
by 15th March 2012. Please include short
biography, contact details and institutional
affiliation.
You will be informed about acceptance or non-acceptance
of your proposal by 23rd March 2012.
Conference participation fees
Participation fee is – € 100
Participation fee for PhD and postdoctoral research
students is – € 50.
The participation fee includes all symposium
proceedings, daytime refreshments and two excursions
into the Velebit Mountains where we are going to see
mirila (a unique funeral custom) and to the
old castle of Benkovac in Zadar hinterland.
Accommodation
Accommodation is not included in the conference fee.
Further information is available on the conference website
www.bodyandawareness.info/Location & Travel info
Enquiries
For queries regarding academic issues please contact
either Snježana Zorić (szoric@unizd.hr or tyti28@gmail.com)
or Gert Hofmann (g.hofmann@ucc.ie).
Queries about organizational issues may be addressed
to Mario Katić (makatic@unizd.hr)
All information will be regularly updated on
www.bodyandawareness.info
We look forward to seeing you in Zadar in May 2012. |