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<P ALIGN=CENTER><SPAN LANG="en-au"><B><FONT SIZE=4>Body Modification: Mark II</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><SPAN LANG="en-au"><B><I>Call for Papers</I></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au">Following the great success of the first Body Modification conference in April 2003, and the requests we have received to host another conference, we are pleased to announce:<B> Body Modification Mark II</B>.</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au">Abstracts are invited for this international conference to be held at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 21<SUP>st</SUP> - 23<SUP>rd</SUP> of April, 2005. Abstracts should be 300-500 words and should be forwarded to Dr Nikki Sullivan at the address listed below. Proposals for panels and for performance pieces are welcomed. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer any financial assistance to conference participants.</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au">Once again, the aim of this conference is explore the many and varied ways in which bodies are modified, selves are formed and transformed, and culturally specific knowledges and practices are mediated and transfigured. We hope to include a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to the question of what constitutes body modification, as well as performative and visual presentations. </SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><B>Possible topics:</B></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> ‘non-mainstream’ body modification (tattooing, piercing, scarification, branding, etc)</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> body sculpting (corsetry, dieting, body-building, binding, constriction, negation, elongation, etc)</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> performance art</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> body politics</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> transformative rituals</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> body modification in non-Western cultures and/or in other historical epochs</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> transgender and/or transsexualism; intersex</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> cosmetic surgery</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> fatness; anorexia; eating</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> technology and the body (enhancement technologies, cyborgs, nanotechnology, reproductive technologies, transplants, implants, cloning, ethics, etc)</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> virtual bodies</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> ‘self-mutilation’</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> fashion</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> illness; pain</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> sadomasochism; fetishes; bodies and pleasures</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> pregnant embodiment</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> the racialization of the body; hybrid bodies</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> monstrosity; the normalization of ‘deformed’ bodies</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> ageing</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> addiction</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> reading/writing the body</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> intercorporeality</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> war; violence; torture; terrorism; imprisonment</SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><B>Deadline for abstracts:</B> 1<SUP>st</SUP> November, 2004</SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><B>Further information:</B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au">Body Modification Conference Committee</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au">Department of Critical and Cultural Studies </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au">Macquarie University </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au">North Ryde</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au">New South Wales 2109</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au">Australia</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><B><SPAN LANG="fr">Email</SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr">:</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"> </SPAN><A HREF="mailto:bodmod@scmp.mq.edu.au"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">bodmod@scmp.mq.edu.au</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><B>Phone</B>: + 61 (0)2 9850 8760</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-au"><B>Website</B>: </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.ccs.mq.edu.au/bodmod"><SPAN LANG="en-au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">www.ccs.mq.edu.au/bodmod</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-au"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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