CFP: Mind, Body, Behavior: Health, Illness, and Representation (51st Annual Comparative Literature Conference)
Type: Call for Papers
Date: March 15, 2016
Location: California, United States
Subject Fields: History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Humanities, Literature, Popular Culture Studies, Health and Health Care
CALL FOR PAPERS: 51st Annual Comparative Literature Conference
Mind, Body, Behavior: Health, Illness, and Representation
April 27-28, 2016
California State University, Long Beach
Health
has been a concern of representation from the earliest known images and
narratives, and remains a topical subject. Representations related to
the body, the mind, illness, trauma, bodily transformation,
psychological stress, personal relationships, and many aspects of human
behavior, represent how individuals and communities form their
identities, how they cope with stress, distress, physical and
psychological health. Interdisciplinary and comparative methodologies
can fruitfully address literary and cultural representations of medical
states and situations, lifespan development, ethics and education, and
empathy issues.
We invite abstracts (max. 250 words) for 15-20
minute individual presentations or one-hour panel discussions with up to
4 speakers on any topic that is appropriate to the theme. A proposal
could be an interpretation of a single text, a comparison of multiple
texts, or a thematic or theoretical exploration.
Examples of potential papers/panels:
• Literary and cultural representations of medicine
• Illness narratives • Stories of resilience and perseverance
• Graphic Medicine
• Comparisons of narrative styles (i.e., in adaptation from text to screen , such as Love in the Time of Cholera, or The Fault in Our Stars)
• Medicine in the Classical World, the Medieval World, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment
• Cultural Representation and Public Health Issues
• Metaphors of Medicine (cyborgs and the posthuman, zombie apocalypse, dystopian worlds)
In
addition to these potential topics, we are particularly interested in
examples of effective interdisciplinary research and analysis, in
Comparative Literature or other academic fields.
Send your proposals to complitconf.csulb@gmail.com
Abstract Deadline: March 15, 2016
Contact Info:
Carl Fisher, Department Chair, Comparative World Literature and Classics, California state University Long Beach
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