This international and interdisciplinary symposium\n addresses how cultural\, medical and political understandings of the \nself are shifting and changing in contemporary societies. It explores \nhow humanness is imagined and conceived in various symbolic systems of \nknowledge\, and how gender\, disability\, class and ethnicity articulate \nthese understandings. With a particular focus on how ideas of the flesh \nand national identity reconfigure experiences of the embodied self\, the \nsymposium aims to bring together scholars whose work engages with issues\n that range from medical and cultural technologies\, globalisation\, \nmigration and neoliberalism to phenomenology and ethics\, political \nideologies and subjectivities\, and theories of social transformation.
\n\nThis\n symposium aims to create a transdisciplinary dialogue regarding the \nlocal and global changing understandings of and practices related to the\n self by bringing together speakers from a broad range of cultural\, \nmethodological\, national\, disciplinary and transnational foci. It seeks \nto further conversations and research on topical and vexing questions of\n the self\, especially in relation to recent medical\, cultural\, \ntechnological\, political\, social and neo-colonial developments. With an \nemphasis on the biopolitics of bodies\, machines and institutional \nstructures\, the symposium also addresses the ethics of human selfhood\, \nspecifically how we define the human and what is at stake in our \ndefinitions of this now global being.
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