As human beings, we are bodily situated in the world, and it is through our bodies that we perceive our surroundings. This conference focuses on notions of embodiment and perception and addresses the relation of lived experience and critical practice in literary and cultural studies.
Papers can either be dedicated to theoretical reflection or offer concrete readings of fictional and non-fictional texts of all media and genres. Possible topics might include but are not limited to:
embodiment and identity politics, visibility and difference, embodiment and affect, tacit knowledge, performativity and embodiment, experiential knowledge in academic writing, embodiment and disability studies, phenomenology of race, queer phenomenology, social constructionism vs. phenomenology, class and habitus, intersectional embodiments, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, experientiality and autobiography, embodiment and stigmatization, movement and gesture, phenomenological film theories, phenomenology of reading, enactivism, synesthesia, representation and embodiment.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Gail Weiss (Washington DC)
Chris Tedjasukmana (Berlin)
Please send an abstract of 500 words and a short bio by 1 February 2016 to
Simon Dickel: simon.dickel@rub.de
Participants will be notified by 15 February 2016.