::fibreculture:: CFP: "Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment, " Dec 1-3 2016, Byron Bay Australia

[Erika Kerruish]

This is a reminder that abstracts for this conference are due April 15. Please feel free to circulate widely.





Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment:

the 10th International Somatechnics Conference



Byron Bay December 1-3, 2016



Following recent conferences in Linköping (2013), Otago (2014) and Tucson (2015), we are pleased to announce that the tenth International Somatechnics Conference will be held in Byron Bay from Dec 1-3, 2016. The conference is co-hosted by the University of Queensland and Southern Cross University, with the support of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.



The term "somatechnics" was coined in 2003, as a new critical framework through which to rethink the relationship between technologies and embodiment. As Nikki Sullivan argues: "techné is not something we add or apply to the already constituted body (as object), nor is it a tool that the embodied self employs to its own ends. Rather, technés are the dynamic means in and through which corporealities are crafted" (TSQ 1.1-2 2014).



This conference is intended to extend this focus on bodily techniques and embodied technologies to engage with recent theories of time and temporalities, as well as feminist, queer and trans historiography. Philosophies of time and critical investigations of past, present and future technologies have long been important concerns in studies of embodiment. Studies of the historical construction of gender and embodied memory, as well as various durational approaches to materiality, have revealed the important role played by technicity and temporality in the construction of corporealities. Points of intersection and divergence between such critical conceptions of time and technology, and recent science studies open up a further set of directions.



We welcome a broad range of papers and presentations on the technologies and temporalities of the body. These might include, but are not restricted to, the following perspectives:

·            Gender, queer and/or trans studies

·            Histories of gender and/or sexuality

·            New Materialisms

·            Biopolitics

·            The anthropocene

·            Science studies

·            Critical race studies

·            Disability and/or crip theory

·            Digital cultures

·            Visual and literary cultures

·            Art history and theory

·         Animal studies

·         Posthumanism



Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Vicki Kirby (University of New South Wales)

Suvendrini Perera (Curtin University)

Susan Stryker (University of Arizona)

Valerie Traub (University of Michigan)



Organised by Elizabeth Stephens (Southern Cross University) and Karin Sellberg (University of Queensland)



The deadline for abstracts is Friday April 15, 2016. Proposals for individual papers and presentations, or organised panels and streams, are welcome. Please send your proposals to:

technotemporalities at gmail.com<mailto:technotemporalities at gmail.com>



For further details and continual updates, visit our conference website:

https://technotemporalities.wordpress.com<https://technotemporalities.wordpress.com/>

or Facebook event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/172475506454714/


A conference travel award to the value of AUD$500.00 has been provided by Australian Feminist Studies and will be awarded by the conference conveners to one postgraduate student whose paper has been selected for the conference.



To be considered for the scholarship, you must:

*   be enrolled in a postgraduate course in Australia

*   submit a paper with a feminist focus for presentation at Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment: the 10th International Somatechnics Conference.



Applicants without current scholarship funding will be given preference.



To apply, submit the following with your paper:

*   your details (including whether you already have scholarship funding)

*   a 300 word statement of describing how participation in the conference furthers your research in feminism

*   a list of the costs for which the money will be used.



Email your application to technotemporalities at gmail.com<mailto:technotemporalities at gmail.com> with AFS Travel Award as the subject heading. The closing date for applications and papers is Friday, April 15, 2016.


Dr Erika Kerruish I School of Arts and Social Sciences I Southern Cross University I Locked Mail Bag 4 I Coolangatta Qld 4225 I Ph: 07 5589 3168 I Email: erika.kerruish at scu.edu.au<mailto:erika.kerruish at scu.edu.au> I CRICOS Provider No:01241G

Co-editor:  http://www.transformationsjournal.org<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/>


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