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From: "Society for Literature & Science"
Daily SLS Email Digest
-> CFP Correction: Medical IMAGING (not "Imagining")
by Jim Swan
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Date: 10 Mar 2000 10:38:55 -0800
From: Jim Swan
Subject: CFP Correction: Medical IMAGING (not "Imagining")
This has the correct title (also note new deadline, March 22):
"MEDICAL IMAGING" sessions at TWO conferences: MLA & SLS
The Society for Literature and Science (SLS) has indicated interest in a
session on Medical Imaging for its conference in Atlanta, GA, October
5-8.
For more information, visit the web site at
http://sls2000.lcc.gatech.edu/
This call for papers is aimed at both conferences, SLS and MLA. If
possible, two sessions will be organized. When submitting your proposal,
please indicate your availability for SLS (Atlanta, Oct 5-8) or MLA
(Washington, Dec 27-30) or both.
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"More than Skin Deep: Medical Imaging, Culture, and the Body"
The rhetoric, authority and metaphorics of medical images in
professional
and popular uses: research, diagnosis, and treatment; films, ads, and
TV;
the politics of race, sex, and disability. For instance, clinical
photographs of disease and deformity, X-Ray, CAT and MRI scans of the
body's interior, sonograms of fetuses, PET scans of the brain for
research.
diagnostic, and forensic purposes (to determine or confirm brain damage
and
mental disease or deficiency; or to determine sites of brain activity in
perception, speech, affect, and other topics of cognitive interest).
Papers
welcomed from scholars of literature, history, anthropology, visual arts
and medias, medicine and medical technology, disability studies, and
related disciplines.
Two-page abstract by 22 March to Jim Swan, English Dept., 306 Clemens
Hall,
SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo NY 14260. Email: jswan@acsu.buffalo.edu
(attachments accepted).
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This has the correct title (also note new deadline, March 22):
"MEDICAL IMAGING" sessions at TWO conferences: MLA &
SLS
The Society for Literature and Science (SLS) has indicated interest in a
session on Medical Imaging for its conference in Atlanta, GA, October
5-8.
For more information, visit the web site at
http://sls2000.lcc.gatech.edu/
This call for papers is aimed at both conferences, SLS and MLA. If
possible, two sessions will be organized. When submitting your proposal,
please indicate your availability for SLS (Atlanta, Oct 5-8) or MLA
(Washington, Dec 27-30) or both.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
"More than Skin Deep: Medical Imaging, Culture, and the Body"
The rhetoric, authority and metaphorics of medical images in
professional and popular uses: research, diagnosis, and treatment;
films, ads, and TV; the politics of race, sex, and disability. For
instance, clinical photographs of disease and deformity, X-Ray, CAT and
MRI scans of the body's interior, sonograms of fetuses, PET scans of the
brain for research. diagnostic, and forensic purposes (to determine or
confirm brain damage and mental disease or deficiency; or to determine
sites of brain activity in perception, speech, affect, and other topics
of cognitive interest). Papers welcomed from scholars of literature,
history, anthropology, visual arts and medias, medicine and medical
technology, disability studies, and related disciplines.
Two-page abstract by 22 March to Jim Swan, English Dept., 306 Clemens
Hall, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo NY 14260. Email: jswan@acsu.buffalo.edu
(attachments accepted).
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