Tag: body

It is time for feminist media studies to refocus its attention on the body. Inspired by both old and new materialisms, we welcome essays that address embodied experiences, physical symptoms, labor practices and corporeal regimes that speak to ways of knowing massively-distributed media networks and/or sketch new directions for feminist media studies.

This symposium will assert the importance of pose as both a creative practice and an emerging area of critical inquiry. It will bring together multi-disciplinary academics and practitioners to discuss and develop new ways of understanding pose and posing in a historical and contemporary context.

we endeavor to explore textual bodies and their composition (or decomposition) in ways that help us understand the ecological placement of the body as it engages with modernism's historical and physical environments.

One day Colloquium: May 16th 2015, Institute of Historical Research, LondonMany historians have pointed out that “the body” is a worryingly broad historical theme, covering...

Historically, studies of performance have often been tied to star images, focusing on issues of celebrity in professional, public, and private spaces. As a...

The special section contains articles by Kalle Jonasson, Alan Bairner, Toni Bruce, and others.

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 23-25, 2015: Modern Bodies: Corporeality in Spanish Silver Age Literature and CultureThe advent of modernity and the processes of modernization...

The fit body is thus the conspicuous product of the late-capitalist work ethic. It is the body as the focal point of an industry...