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Call for Papers—International Conference

 

Bodies of Knowledge:

Sexuality in the Archive

 

 

April 26-28, 2007

 

Sponsored by

Centre for the History of European Discourses University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

 

 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Alice Domurat Dreger

Catherine Waldby

Elizabeth Kerekere

Rosemarie Garland-Thompson

Susan Stryker

and others to be announced

 

The turn to new theories and practices of the archive in critical theory, cultural studies,  queer theory, philosophy, sociology and associated disciplines has had important repercussions for scholars working on histories and philosophies of the body.  This international conference will examine the impact of innovative recent work on archives and archival practice for sexuality studies, gender studies and queer/GLBT studies.  The conference aims to interrogate how knowledge about the body is collected and held, as well as how it is produced.  Drawing together scholars from a broad range of inter-disciplinary fields, it will highlight scholarship about bodies, genders and sexuality that is empirically grounded, document based, historically inflected, theoretically informed and self-conscious of its relationship to archival practice.

 

By calling attention to the relationship between “knowledge of bodies” and “bodies of knowledge,” the conference also intends to showcase sexuality-related work in the archives, library and information sciences fields. We are particularly interested in work that examines sexual knowledges retrieved from state archives; community-based archives that preserve forms of sexual knowledge not valued by the state; distribution of and access to sexual knowledge on the Internet and World-Wide Web; and work that understands both body and mind as metaphorical “archives” that hold knowledge of sexuality.

 

We invite proposals for papers of 20-25 minutes (10-12

pages) in length addressing these or related issues.

Possible topics include:

 

Sexuality and the state

Archival counter-practice

Community memory and the body

Queer archival practice

Sexual knowledge on the net

Digital and electronic archives

Biotechnologies and data collection

Embodied knowledges

Psychosomatic archives

The body as archive

Memorialisation and the body

Methods of representing bodies within archives

 

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to

both:

 

Elizabeth Stephens: [log in to unmask] Susan Stryker: [log in to unmask]

 

Deadline for abstracts is 1 November 2006.

Notification of acceptance by 15 November 2006.

 

For further information, please contact the conference organisers, or see the conference website at http://www.ched.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=38992.

 

 

Elizabeth Stephens

Research Fellow

Centre for the History of European Discourses University of Queensland Australia 4072

Phone: 61 7 3346 9493

Fax: 61 7 3346 9495

 

 

 

Kim Klausner

Project Archivist

Library and Center for Knowledge Management

University of California, San Francisco

530 Parnassus Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94143-0840

(415) 476-1024

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