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| 2010 TAAB conferences: Lectures USA: Monday, March 29 through Thursday, April 1, 2010, at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA Call for presenters TAAB USA: inquiries due January 30, presentations due March 15. Email TAAB USA: reverndbunny@earthlink.net Lectures UK: Monday, May 31st through Thursday, June 4th, 2010 at Bear Steps Gallery, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK Call for Presenters TAAB UK : inquiries due February 10, presentations due May 10. Email TAAB UK: taab2010@googlemail.com |
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| Call for Presentations: 2010 Conferences Applications encouraged from Sociology, Psychology, Literature, History, Art, Theater, Medicine, Dance, Photography, Media, Fashion, Politics, Law, Geography, Anthropology, and Multi-Disciplinary Approaches |
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Ancient Body Arts:
Call for presentations on body arts prior to 500 CE: ancient tattooing, bone shaping, body shaping, body painting, henna, woading, piercing, scarification, and ornamentation |
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Body Discipline: Call for presentations on the aspects of managing the body through disciplines such as yoga and body building, purification and control |
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| The Exotic Body: Call for presentations on the fascination with strange, distant, and imagined bodies, the Orientalized body, the consumption of the "other" body in tourism and fashion, and the politics of the "foreign" body |  | |
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Ornament: Call for presentations on the the ornamented body, through the economic, historical, social, and other approaches |
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| The Pierced, Cut and Scarred Body: Call for presentations on traditional and contemporary skin cutting and piercing for beautification and punishment, affiliation and rebellion, pleasure and pain, through medical, legal, social, artistic and personal approaches |   | |
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Hair: Call for presentations on dyeing, braiding, cutting, growing, shaving, and sculpting hair in history, religion, race, science and aesthetics |  |
The Outlaw Body: Call for presentations on group-affiliated tattooing and markings: gang, prison, cult, and criminal identification: authenticity versus globalization and popularization |  | |
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Henna: Call for presentations on history, traditions, politics, contemporary techniques, globalization and consumerism of a traditional art |
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| The Gendered Body: Call for presentations on constucting the male body, the female body, and the infinite variations between these polarities. |   | |
  | The Altered Face Call for presentations on managing the face and expression through paint, cutting, tattooing, piercing, staining and surgical techniques: the normalized face, the racialized face, and the extreme or radical face | |
| The Moving and Rhythmic Body Call for presentations on the dancing body: the divine body, the sexual body, the exotic body, the fashionable body, and the magical body |  | |
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Women's
Tattooing Call for presentations on traditional women's tattooing in indigenous cultures, and contemporary women's tattooing in western culture. |
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| The Altered Foot Call for presentations on the shaped, bound, hobbled, fashionable, fetishized, normalized, and enabled foot. |  | |
 | The "Dangerous Other" Body: The Freak, the Despicable, the Rebel, the Elegant Subversive, and the Carnival Call for Papers on the theory of the Gaze through politics and medicine, and the history, sociology, literature, psychology and politics of Demanding the Gaze | |
Call For Papers! Tell us what you'd like to present! Email to Attend TAAB USA: reverndbunny@earthlink.net Call for presenters TAAB USA: inquiries due January 30, presentations due March 15. Email TAAB USA: reverndbunny@earthlink.net Contact TAAB USA with questions: info@mehandi.com Click Here to see highlights of previous USA conference | ||
| TAAB UK: Catharine Hinton,
TAAB UK Director: taab2010@googlemail.com Email to Attend TAAB UK: taab2010@googlemail.com Call for presenters TAAB UK : inquiries due February 10, presentations due May 10. Email TAAB UK: taab2010@googlemail.com Contact TAAB UK with questions: taab2010@googlemail.com Click HERE to see highlights of previous UK conference | ||