The Body: New Paradigms, Perspectives, and Practices (Nov. 3)
Printer-friendly versionDATE: Thursday, 3 November, 2011
TIME: 9 AM to 5 PM, registration at 8:30 AM
PLACE: Thomson House, McGill University
The Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) in Montreal is holding an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on “The Body: New Paradigms, Perspectives, and Practices”. The conference will bring together the many graduate students at McGill University working in this realm, from corporeality and the visual arts, body and performance art, architecture, music, and dance, to research on aging, scientific and medical approaches, plastic surgery, HIV-AIDS, food and nutrition, philosophies of beauty and fitness, literary and textual treatments of the body, queer space, disability studies, histories of the senses, geographies of sexuality and new media studies.
“The Body” conference shares a keynote speaker, Prof. Roderick A. Ferguson and events with the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS) conference
which McGill is hosting November 4-6.
The Canadian Women's Health Network and the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health program are financially supported by Health Canada through the Women's Health Contribution Program. The views herein do not necessarily represent the official policy of Health Canada.