5th Global Interdisciplinary Time, Space and the Body Conference
Mansfield College
Oxford OX1 3TF
United Kingdom
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Time, Space + Body Conference
Thursday 30th August – Saturday 1st September 2015
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to critically examine the foundations, structures, relationships, politics and practices surrounding the categories of time, space and the body. Our aim is to question the ways in which we construct and experience such things as pre-worlds, this world, other worlds, non-humans, humans, post/trans-humans, boundaries, liminality, flows and differing forms of time. We encourage an examination of time, space and/or the body as interconnecting areas suspended in ‘webs of significance’ Geertz (1973). Exploring within these ‘webs’ it becomes apparent that this world consists of people who constantly participate in specific tasks at particular times and in constructed spaces. For example, Turner (2004:38) has suggested ‘every society is confronted by four tasks: the reproduction of populations in time, the regulation of bodies in space, the restraint of the interior body through disciplines and the representation of the exterior body in social space.’ While these tasks are a good starting point we seek to go beyond them. Accordingly we seek presentations that explore how time, space and the body are understood, mythologised and constructed in order to affect, effect, subvert and/or control each other.
At the end of the conference, our aim is to further develop the discussions and dialogues presented at this conference into new and continued interdisciplinary research, workshops and publications which will help us make sense of the contested categories of time, space and the body. To this end all proposals accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors who will be chosen from interested delegates attending the conference. Further to this workshops will be developed in line with delegate ideas and suggestions.
Organising Chairs:
Shona Hill & Shilinka Smith: [email protected]
CFP closes 3rd June, 2015
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June 5, 2015, 7:45pm BST
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