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Call for Papers: Nineteenth-Century Aetiologies, Exoticism, and Multimodal Aesthetics

Call for Papers: Nineteenth-Century Aetiologies, Exoticism, and Multimodal Aesthetics 2-4 April 2013 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom http://embodiments.liv.ac.uk/?page_id=1105 Of illness and exotic curatives, one hardly escapes solidago odora, ass’s milk, juice of millipedes, senna, horse dung, and snake oil. Medical narratives during the nineteenth century manifest somewhat irreconcilable cross-modalities of enthusiasm and fear with ‘otherness’. Drawing inspiration from early Greek philosophy, the post-Enlightenment art flourished with a focus on various modes of otherness; debating determinism, slavery, forgiveness, and nationalism while bringing together concepts that play major roles in our contemporary pedagogical approaches. Though it is not often emphasized, modes of eroticism in prose, poetry, and painting, whether of metaphorical or mythological conceptualisation, communicate certain entanglements with ‘otherness’. Given that today, multimodal n

Isis Vol. 103, No. 2, June 2012 is now available online

Table of Contents Alert    The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science    Society is happy to notify you that the new issue of Isis is now    available. The online issues of this journal are hosted on JSTOR on    behalf of The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of    Science Society.    Isis    Vol. 103, No. 2, June 2012    http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666353    Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History    of Science Society    ------------------------------------------------------------------------    Frontispiece    Frontispiece    DOI: 10.1086/667466    Isis    Vol. 103, No. 2: vi.    http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/667466    ------------------------------------------------------------------------    Articles    Hybridity, Race, and Science: The Voyage of the Zaca, 1934–1935    Warwick Anderson    DOI: 10.1086/666354    Isis    Vol