Date sent: 18 Aug 2003 11:52:42 EDT
From: Angela.H.RosenthalDartmouth.EDU (Angela H. Rosenthal)
Subject: ASECS Session on "SKIN"
To: h-arthisth-net.msu.edu

Call for Papers
ASECS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
March 24-28, 2004

SESSION TITLE: "Skin"

SESSION CHAIR: Prof. Angela Rosenthal, Dept. of Art History,
Dartmouth College, 6033 Carpenter Hall, Hanover, NH 03755;
Tel: 603-646-3426; Fax: 603-646-3428;
E-mail: angela.Rosenthaldartmouth.edu

This session will look at the representation of skin in 18th-century
visual culture. Topic will including questions of gender and race in
relation to skin color and complexion, aesthetic debates on opacity
and transparency of skin, artistic practices of depicting skin,
philosophical and psychoanalytical considerations relating to skin
as surface, border/body-limits, the skin-ego and questions of identity.
Papers may also address the performativity of skin through blushing,
tattooing, cosmetics, and body markings, including forcefully induced
scarification and wounds.

GENERAL INFORMATION:
Proposals for papers should be sent directly to the seminar chair
no later than 15 September 2003. Please include your telephone and
fax numbers and e-mail address. You should also let the session
chair know of any anticipated audio-visual needs. Please note that
we will be unable to provide computers or computer-projection equipment.
Seminar chairs will have until 1 October to send the names of
participants and the titles of their papers to the organizers in
Boston and to the ASECS Business Office (asecswfu.edu)
(Fax: 336-727-4697)

Please be reminded that the Society's rules permit members to present
only one paper at the meeting. Members may, in addition to presenting
a paper, serve as a session chair, a respondent, or a panel discussant,
but they may not present a paper in those sessions they also chair.
If you submit a paper proposal to more than one session, please be sure
that you so notify all the chairs to which you have made a submission.
If you fail to notify the session chairs, they will have the right to
decide between themselves in which session the paper(s) will be presented
or if the papers will be excluded entirely. Participants are expected to
be ASECS members by 1 December 2003.