Bodies and Oddities

Graduate Student Conference, October 1-2, 2010

Hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt University

Keynote Address by renowned author and professor

Diamela Eltit
Submit abstracts (in English, Spanish, or Portuguese) by August 1, 2010
vanderbiltbodiesconference@gmail.com

Additional activities include: Hommage Sara Bartman, a play by Teresa Mara Daz Nerio;
Seminars sponsored by the Vanderbilt University Center For Teaching
Possible Panel Topics: Writing the Body and criture fminine; the Other (Race, Gender, Sexuality);
Body, Memory, Trauma, Testimony; the Body Politic; Censorship; Abnormality; the Foucaldian body and
Subjectivity; Performance and the body; the Body and Power; Adorning the Body; Pedagogy and the Body