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A Wealth of Absence: Visualising the Body in Winckelmann, Lessing and Blake [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (published 1755), Johann Joachim Winckelmann sets a precedent, through a series of metaphysical exclusions and affirmations centred on the nature of ...
The Performing Body: Physical Self-Concept in Athletes [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This paper presentation will present a review of literature on the unique way the body is negotiated in athletics and pivotal role it plays in identity development and global selfesteem. Current findings will be extended ...
Jane Austen's Dirty Jokes [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
While folklorists, including Katherine Briggs, have asserted that Jane Austen's novels contain no folklore, Jill Heydt-Stevens and other Austen scholars have argued that Austen knowingly inserts obscene humor, puns, and ...
Music and the body: modern pedagogical techniques for teaching Afro-Cuban rhythms [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Music is a ubiquitous part of our lives, inescapable and unforgettable. Its power moves our body, invokes peaks and valleys of emotion, and can cause vivid recollection of events long past. And why is it that an anatomist ...
Annexing the planets : the colonization of the alien body in science fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Science fiction has its historical beginnings in the late colonial era, and the discourse of colonialism shares with the discourse of science fiction a terminology of discovery, exploration, conquest, mapping and the ...
We are not our faces [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
One of the themes prevalent in my work is that the notion of "self" as separate from "other" is a mental construct. According to our senses we are separate and on those levels, we are. However, if we examine ourselves on ...
Écriture Féminine : thinking the female body through writing [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Traditional feminist readings of Helene Cixous's theory of ecriture feminine have centered on the essentialist debate, overlooking the important contribution to gender studies her theoretical work constitutes. In this paper ...
Why Does The Birds Attack?: Teaching the Body in Hitchcock [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
The body is a central feature in Hitchcock both in the way he shoots and cuts it and shoots and cuts it. True, his bodies are shot and stabbed; they fall off Mt. Rushmore, get chopped up and carried away in suitcases on ...
The Identity and Objectification of Personal Trainers [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
The purpose of this study is to examine how personal trainers perceive their body. My research questions are the following: How does the structure or the focus of the organization affect the trainer's perception of their ...
From Landscape to Body : The White Body in Contemporary American Fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
"Whiteness," as both a field of study and an even an identity, has very often been viewed through its connections to postmodernity, most particularly with the assumption that whiteness equals a body situated within a ...
The health care experiences of adult survivors of child sexual abuse : a systematic review of evidence on sensitive practice [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
I propose to present a poster representing findings from my article, just published in the January 2008 issue of the Journal of Trauma, Violence, and Abuse entitled, "The health care experiences of adult survivors of child ...
Evaluation of a novel bone-tendon allograft technique for rotator cuff repair [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Background: The rotator cuff consists of a group of four muscles that collectively are vital for shoulder joint stability. A rotator cuff tear is a condition common in humans, occurring as a result of impingement of the ...
Intervention/interruption [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
How does the body exist in time and in place? How is it that we recognize ourselves through memory or experience? And in defining ourselves as a presence in that space, how do we know where we are? ... For the project/pr ...
Identifying and transforming normalcy : challenges to compulsory able-bodied oppression in the deaf community [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This paper integrates excerpts taken from a fieldwork-based, thesis-length project that examines the personal experience narratives of Deaf and Hearing mothers of Deaf children. Driven by the goal of joining folkloric ...
Binding the body, binding the mind : the limitations of empathy in John Gabriel Stedman's “Narrative of a five years' expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam” [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796) is laced with discussions of cruelty -- to slaves, to soldiers, even to monkeys. Throughout, Stedman prides himself ...
Large nudes [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
I started my large nude series to challenge conventional media-driven standards of beauty and show that the large body is also beautiful. The work falls into two distinct areas: in one set, my self-portraits are abstract ...
E-community support for weight loss [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This is an exploratory study with a qualitative content analysis of the e-community forums to examine how these forums promote healthy eating, exercise, and social networking to encourage weight-loss. Two websites have ...
The body and photography : examinations on the being [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
As a visual artist my choice of mediums in my research are the body through photography. My photographs show an elusive, immaterial reality that attempt to reach an understanding of the metaphysical world. ... My images ...
Bibliography of research on the human body
(The Body Project, 2008)
A selected bibliography of resources addressing research on the human body which was compiled primarily by librarians at the MU Libraries for the 2008 Body Project Conference.
Body project attendees (2008)
(The Body Project, 2008)
The 2008 conference was attended by graduate students, staff and faculty from several departments and colleges of the University of Missouri-Columbia. This file lists presenters, session chairs, conference committee, and ...