RSS 1.0Body Project 2008 Conference (MU)
The 2008 conference, titled "Anatomy, Relationships, and Representations: An Interdisciplinary Study," was the first meeting of The Body Project. The conference was sponsored by the Center for Arts and Humanities and the Graduate School, in collaboration with the English Graduate Student Association. Full text of the presentations are not available for this year.
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The Rhetoric of Guilt and the Body [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)Guilt is an emotion common to most individuals. It is also a less common rhetorical device used to persuade an audience toward making one decision or another. Yet, when we look at the history of rhetoric, Aristotle in ... -
Dynamics of Gas Exchange through the Fractal Architecture of the Human Lung, Modeled as an Exactly Solvable Hierarchical Tree [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)The acinar airways lie at the periphery of the human lung and are responsible for the transfer of oxygen from air to the blood during respiration. This transfer occurs by the diffusion-reaction of oxygen over the irregular ... -
The Posthuman Body in the Works of Andy Warhol, David Cronenberg and Matthew Barney [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)Today, it has been assumed that in the mixed reality of virtual and physical realms, the body is not perceived as a whole. The instances of how the unity and homogeneity of the body is challenged by technology come in a ... -
Smashed Brains in German Literature [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)Depictions of dissevered heads and smashed brains are abundant in German Literature: starting from descriptions of violence in the medieval literature, to the splattered brains of Dr. Faustus in early modern times to the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Death of Maternity : Decaying Female Bodies in Mary Shelley's Fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)In this paper, I examine the trope of the dying woman in Mary Shelley's early works, including Frankenstein, Mathilda, and her short fiction. Critics are in general agreement that two of Frankenstein's essential subjects ... -
The Discipline of Silence : Childrens' Bodies as Public Space [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)I am a mother to two children, one eleven-year old boy in sixth grade and one nine-year old girl in the fourth grade. Their adventures through public school have been inspirational in this research, and have taken me to ... -
Producing the Body : Habeas Corpus and Closure in Burney's Court Diaries [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)This paper is part of a larger project which investigates the ways in which eighteenth-century novelist Frances Burney's body of work (novels, plays, and life-writing) create a sense (or no-sense) of an ending. In this ... -
The Outer Space : Representations of White Bodies in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart uses white bodies to connote abnormalcy in African culture at the start of colonialism. Written as a counter-hegemonic strategical novel in response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, ... -
Scratching the Surface : Female Scarification in the Nuba of Sudan [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)This proposed paper presentation is based on research I conducted at the University of Florida for my M.A in Art History. My secondary area of interest was African art, and this will paper explore the treatment of the ... -
Spying on Lazarus in the Cave: Keats and the Still Body in The Fall of Hyperion [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)If accepted for the conference, my presentation will be a critical exploration of John Keats' craft in The Fall of Hyperion, particularly his description of bodies. I contend that in his choice to describe still bodies, ... -
Here and Now/Hear and (k)Now [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)Funny, frank, informative and touching, "Here and Now/Hear and (k)Now" is a one-woman show examining female sexuality within the context of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) epidemic. It is presented through the eyes of a ...