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Talking Bodies 2023: an international, interdisciplinary conference
Talking Bodies: 10th anniversary gathering! An international, interdisciplinary conference on identity, sexuality, representation, gender.
When and where
Date and time
Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:00 - Fri, 16 Jun 2023 14:00 BST
Location
University of Chester Parkgate Road Chester CH1 4BJ United Kingdom
Refund Policy
About this event
- 4 days 2 hours
- Mobile eTicket
TALKING BODIES, an international, interdisciplinary conference, has, since its inaugural event in 2013, hosted scholars, specialists, practitioners, artists, researchers, and postgraduate students from around the world, and from a wide range of disciplines, in Chester. In addition to conference presentations, there are exhibitions; performances; a small marketplace with book and craft stalls; our legendary feminist pub quiz; a vegetarian conference banquet; workshops; a ‘chill out’ quiet zone, and much, much more!
The first three Talking Bodies volumes are out now. See here, here, and here. All conference queries should be addressed to Prof Emma Rees: talkingbodies@chester.ac.uk.
Check the conference website for regular updates; and follow us on Twitter: @Talking_Bodies.
About the organiser
TALKING BODIES, an international, interdisciplinary conference on gender, sexuality, representation, and embodiment has, since its inaugural event in 2013, hosted scholars, specialists, practitioners, artists, researchers, and postgraduate students from around the world, and from a wide range of disciplines, in Chester, UK.
In addition to conference presentations, there are exhibitions; performances; a small marketplace with book and craft stalls; our legendary feminist pub quiz; a vegetarian conference banquet; workshops; a ‘chill out’ quiet zone, and much, much more!
Conference themes include:
• Where do gender and ideology intersect on the site of ‘the body’?
• How do visual artists/writers/performers/practitioners navigate the complexities of the embodied self?
• How does the ‘taboo’ impact on selfhood?
• How is sexual identity articulated by and in the body?
• What happens when the ‘talking body’ conflicts with the ‘talking mind’?
• How do body modifications silence bodies? Or allow them to speak?
• How are erotica, porn, or the ‘obscene’ related to embodiment?
• Which bodies are political?
• How do bodies talk in a global pandemic?