Call for Contributions and Participation
Storytelling and the Body
2nd Global Inclusive Conference
Friday 12th March 2021 – Saturday 13th March 2021
Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.progressiveconnexions.net/interdisciplinary-projects/storytelling/storytelling-and-the-body/conferences/
300 word proposals, presentations, abstracts and other forms of contribution and participation should be submitted by Friday 4th September 2020
NOTE: Due to the postponement of this event in relation to the Covid pandemic, we are delighted to be able to unexpectedly reopen the Call for Submissions for the newly rescheduled dates.
Bodies of all kinds surround us. Glamorous bodies, modified bodies, healthy or unhealthy bodies, engineered bodies, trafficked bodies, in/visible bodies, dismembered bodies, persecuted bodies – ubiquitous and ever-present, we cannot help but notice them. But how do understand them? Through stories. Both fiction and non-fiction stories shape our understanding of what constitutes a/the body in the first place, and then create norms about how a body should look, behave, experience the world and even how bodies should interact with each other.… read more. “Call: Storytelling and the Body – 2nd Global Inclusive Conference”