BODIES OF BELIEF: SOMAESTHETICS OF FAITH AND LIBERATION
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The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture of 大象传媒 invite paper proposals for a conference on听 鈥淏odies of Belief: Somaesthetics of Faith and Liberation鈥 听 听that will be held听 听 November 8-9, 2023 听 听at 大象传媒鈥檚 Boca Raton campus. The conference鈥檚 call for papers is as follows:
Bodies of Belief: Somaesthetics of Faith and Liberation
Human bodies are shaped not only by their genetic endowment but also by the belief frameworks of the cultures in which they develop and function. Such embodied beliefs vary from unarticulated background assumptions to ritual religious practices and explicit ideologies formulated in laws and enforced by social institutions. Our shared embodied beliefs generate collaborative action that holds our societies together. However, the beliefs we embody also transcend and defy established social norms and conventional knowledge; they include items of faith and commitment that are nonconformist or even antagonistic to the societal mainstream. More than a mere instrument of compliance or submissive worship, the soma can become a site and tool of liberation and transcultural understanding. How can somaesthetic reflection, critique, and practice transform our culturally shaped bodies from conservative repositories of entrenched habits, repressive constraints, and prejudiced attitudes to vehicles of liberation, expanded consciousness, and compassion?
The conference will explore the ways through which beliefs and their corresponding values are embodied and somatically contested or transformed in such fields as religion, ethics, politics, gender, and the arts. We therefore welcome contributions from diverse disciplinary perspectives in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. Selected papers may be developed for publication in The Journal of Somaesthetics () or in an edited book based on the conference to be published in the Brill book series Studies in Somaesthetics:听 听
Please email your abstract and CV to both听 shuster1@fau.edu 听 听and听 khollow4@fau.edu. The deadline for submission of abstracts is听 听 August 20, 2023. Notifications of acceptances will be sent out 听 听September 20th, 2023.
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Parking Information
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The conference will take place in the Culture and Society Building (CU) in room 301. Please use the following link for a map of campus:听
There is metered parking available in lot 1 (5 to 10 minute walk to conference), and blue permit parking (cheaper than metered parking via the ParkMobile app) in lots 1 and 27 (10-15 minute walk to conference). Unfortunately, Parking Garage 2 will be under construction and closed at the time of our conference.听 Please use the following link for a map of parking lots on campus.听
Hotel Reservations
Fairfield Inn & Suites Boca Raton- Airport
3400 Airport Road
Boca Raton, FL USA
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1950 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL USA