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1. CFP - Susan Squier
2. second try - Susan Squier
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Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:03:17 -0500
From: Susan Squier
Subject: CFP
>Call for Papers: Cultural Studies in Portland in Spring
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>> Panel: Fellow Feeling
> Cultural Studies Association's Fifth Annual Conference,
> April 19-21, 2007, Portland, Oregon
>> Contact: Susan Squier, Penn State University, sxs62@psu.edu
>>
>> What do we gain from thinking with animals? Why are we
>> resistant to doing so? And what are the tensions and benefits
>> resulting when we draw on our 'fellow feeling' for animals in the
>> variety of practices linked to farming? This panel, one of a
>> stream of panels exploring AgriCultural Studies, invites papers
>> exploring the various ways that animal/human connections--"fellow
>> feeling"--have had an impact on the practice, development,
>> representation, or cultural meaning of agriculture.
>
>> Topics could include: the relationship between veterinary
>> and human medicine (feeling in the body); the role of
>> anthropomorphism in animal husbandry (feeling as emotion);
>> historical changes in the role of 'feeling' in farming; animal
>> emotions; or human emotions about animals in the context of
>> contemporary or historical agricultural practices; tactility and
>> the human/animal relationship; the cultural meaning of farm
>> animals. Papers addressing any aspect of disability studies are
>> very welcome, as are papers addressing the raced, gendered and
>> classed aspect of fellow feeling.
>
> People interested in submitting a paper for this panel
> should mail me a 500-word abstract for their paper by October 18
> (Wednesday) including the title of your paper, your name and e-mail
> address, and a brief c.v. Please also note any needed AV
> equipment. (No requests for AV equipment can be honored
> later). Please also pass this call for papers on to other
> interested colleagues. For more information on the conference
> itself, visit http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm.
Susan Squier
Brill Professor of Women's Studies, English, and STS
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Office: 814-863-3604 Home 466-7626
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/s/x/sxs62/
Home address:
211 Miller Lane
PO Box 557
Boalsburg, PA 16827
(phone: 814-466-7626)
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Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:02:03 -0500
From: Susan Squier
Subject: second try
Very sorry--I sent the wrong Call for Papers. This is for a Seminar
at the Cultural Studies Association Convention, and the due date is
November 20.
>>#1:
>>Seminar One: Why We Need AgriCultural Studies
>>Seminar Chair: Susan Squier, Penn State University (sxs62@psu.edu)
>>
>>
>> "Culture in all its early uses was a noun of process: the
>> tending of something, basically crops or animals." (Raymond
>> Williams) Yet though cultural studies is linked ideologically as
>> well as etymologically to agriculture, the field has been
>> remarkably uninterested in that original meaning of
>> culture. Instead, perhaps because of a long-standing metropolitan
>> bias, cultural studies has concentrated on the production of the
>> individual subject in practically every other institutional
>> sense--scientifically, technologically, politically, medically,
>> socially, religiously, and reproductively--while giving scant
>> attention to culture in its original rural sense. This session
>> invites participants to come together for a seminar that will
>> explore the significance for cultural studies of the foundational,
>> deeply material means of producing individuals: the institution of
>> agriculture. Topics can address, but are not limited to:
>> * The contribution of agricultural practices to
>> racialization and gender production
>> * Rurality, sexuality, and farming
>> * Species production and subject production in
>> agricultural practices
>> * Agribusiness and Big Pharma (farming and pharming)
>> * Veterinary medicine, human medicine, and posthumanity
>> * The ethics and politics of food and eating
>> * Counterpublic spheres and CSAs
>> * Intellectual property rights and the agricultural commons
>> * The agricultural production of disability
>> * Agricultural technology, biotechnology, and
>> technologies of subject production
>> * Culture (literature, film, visual art) and agriculture
>>
>>This small group discussion session will admit only fifteen people.
>>Participants will be asked to write brief (8-10 page) papers that
>>will be circulated prior to the conference. Conference
>>participants will also be assigned to serve as respondents to the
>>precirculated papers. If you are interested in submitting a
>>proposal for this seminar, please e-mail a 500 word abstract for
>>your paper, a short c.v., and your institutional affiliation (if
>>applicable) to Susan Squier, at (sxs62@psu.edu), by November
>>20. Please feel free to forward this message to people who might
>>be interested.
>>
>>Susan Squier is Brill Professor of Women's Studies and English at
>>the Pennsylvania State University, where she directs the Science,
>>Medicine, and Technology in Culture program. She is currently
>>working on a book entitled Poultry Science, Chicken Culture:
>>Practicing AgriCultural Studies. Her most recent book is Liminal
>>Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Medicine (Duke
>>2004). Other publications include Babies in Bottles:
>>Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology; the co-edited
>>collection Playing Dolly: Technocultural Figurations, Fantasies and
>>Fictions of Assisted Reproduction, and the edited collection,
>>Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture, published by
>>Duke University Press in 2003. In 2002 she co-directed the National
>>Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in Medicine,
>>Literature and Culture, at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. She
>>has been Visiting Distinguished Fellow, LaTrobe University,
>>Melbourne, Australia, June-July, 1992; and Fulbright Senior
>>Research Scholar, Melbourne, Australia, 1990-1991, as well as
>>scholar in residence at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center of
>>the Rockefeller Foundation.
Susan Squier
Brill Professor of Women's Studies, English, and STS
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Office: 814-863-3604 Home 466-7626
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/s/x/sxs62/
Home address:
211 Miller Lane
PO Box 557
Boalsburg, PA 16827
(phone: 814-466-7626)
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