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are again addressing the real, however problematic, distorted, multiple, and ideological it is. My sense is that in the 21st century, we need a sociology of the body now more than ever, and that a sociological framework in particular can make possible critical engagement with biology and biologies. We need to ensure that sociological and cultural perspectives participate in new conversations about the material body, about the realness of the world and our bodies in it. Sociological imaginations should inform public conversations about these matters, too, whether they be about genetics, neuroscience, or ever-more refined body-machine interfaces. We should be taking a lead role in thinking through these issues and in generating critical dialogue with other disciplines, many of which are furiously seeking to redefine human biology. I hope to see many of you in Las Vegas for our Section Business Meeting, where we can meet in person and discuss the future of our field. In the meantime, I want to encourage all of you to renew your section membership for the coming year and to recruit new members. Faculty should consider sponsoring a graduate student. We are currently at 275 members; we need to aim for at least 300 members to achieve higher standing in the American Sociological Association. Our incredibly exciting work should be recognized within sociology as important and urgently relevant. All the best, Victoria Pitts-Taylor City University of New York Graduate Center and Queens College Chair, Section on the Body and Embodiment, American Sociological Association
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Loe, Meika. 2011 (Available October 1). Aging Our Way: Lessons for Living from 85 and Beyond. New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Sociology/IndividualinSociety/?view =usa&ci=9780199797905
Twine, France Winddance. 2011. A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy. Durham: Duke University Press. http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=8311
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uMONDAY AUGUST 22
8:30am - 10:10am Definitional Debates in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies When Do Bodies Matter?: Category-Crossers, Gender Panics, and the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System *Laurel E. Westbrook, Grand Valley State University; *Kristen Schilt, University of Chicago 8:30am - 10:10am Social Psychology Does This Article Make Me Look Fat? How Exposure to News Reporting Shapes Anti-Fat Attitudes *David Frederick, University of California-Los Angeles; *Abigail C. Saguy, University of California-Los Angeles; *Kjerstin Gruys, University of California-Los Angeles 8:30am - 10:10am Aging and the Life Course Paper Session Age and Sociological Imagination: Individual and Micro-level Dynamics Age and Embodied Masculinities: Mid-Life Gay and Heterosexual Men Talk about their Bodies *Amy Caroline Lodge, University of Texas Austin; *Debra Umberson, University of Texas
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10:30am - 12:10pm Sociology of the Body II: Normative and Transgressive Bodies Session Organizer: Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Presider: Katherine Abigail Mason, University of California-Berkeley Discussant: Katherine Abigail Mason, University of California-Berkeley Session Participants: Constraining Choices or Creating Superwoman? How Appearance Norms Perpetuate Gender Inequality in Career Selection *Christy Ley Kidner, Harvard University Body as Project: The Example of Latine Dance *Julia A. Ericksen, Temple University Beauty Does not Glow in a Skinny Body: Dieting Practices of Urban Indian Women *Jaita Talukdar, Loyola University Disturbingly Beautiful: Contradictory Representations of Corpses in TV Series of the 21st Century *Tina Weber, Technical University Berlin 10:30am - 12:10pm Section on Aging and the Life Course Invited Session Bringing the Body Back In: Biology and the Life Course Session Organizer: Deborah Carr, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers Presider: Deborah Carr, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers Discussant: Dale Dannefer, Case Western Reserve University Discussant: Deborah Carr, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers Session Participants: Genetic Interactions with Prenatal Social Environment: Effects on Academic and Behavioral Outcomes *Dalton Conley, New York University Social Approaches to Incorporating Biology in Sex/Gender Research *Kristen W. Springer, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers
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Call for Papers Conference Theme: Global Sociology for a Global World In the process of globalization, sociological research has transcended national and trans-national levels of analysis. Important issues remain with regard to our understanding about the complex interplays between the global and the local. The conference aims to draw discussions about this valuable theme and encourage presentations contributing to the development of a more global sociology, or to a better understanding of local issues in the global context. Topics of interest include but not limited to: Global, Regional and Local Dynamics Education and Stratification Social Inequality and Poverty Migration/Immigration and Race/Ethnicity Universal Values and Cultural Diversity Civil Society and Democracy Gender and Family Youth and the Elderly Health and Well-Being Deviance, Crime and Law
Keynote Speaker Prof. Francisco Ramirez, Stanford University Prof. Francisco Ramirez is well-known in the field of Sociology of Education. He also serves as a faculty member in the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University. His research interests mainly include cross-national studies on the role of education in the formation of world society, and the influence of world society on educational developments. Submission of Abstract/Panels Papers are welcome from sociologists and colleagues in the social sciences. Prospective participants can apply to: a. present a paper b. organize a panel c. attend the conference. Hong Kong Sociological Association: 13th Annual Conference - Submission Form Please fill out the attached abstract submission form (250 words max.) and send it to Miss Queena NG by email (HKSA2011@ cuhk.edu.hk), by fax (852-26035213), or by post (Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong). Deadline for submission is: September 15,2011. Proposals will be peer reviewed. Registration Fee HKSA life and regular members: Free, Non-HKSA members: HK$400, Students: HK$150 Enquires For further enquiries, please contact Miss Queena NG of Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong at HKSA2011@cuhk.edu.hk.
Prof./Dr./Mr./Ms. Name Affiliation Office: Mobile: Tel. Email Postal address Title of paper Abstract (max. 250 words) Remark Date Pleasemail,emailorfaxthisformtoMiss.QueenaNg (Postaladdress:Dept.ofSociology,CUHK,Shatin,N.T.,HongKong; Email:HKSA2011@cuhk.edu.hk;Fax:85226035213). Fax Title
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Gender and the technologies of the workplace, education, and public/private spaces Disability and technologies of intervention Feminist theorizing of intersections between technology, constructions of embodiment, identity, selves Performance, new media and other creative expressions: engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of embodiment and technology Gendered innovations in technology: gendered objects, design, pasts/futures Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and gendered bodies Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing New Media, digital representation and virtual gendered environments Medicalized bodies: reproduction, disease, bioethics, body constructions Performing/transgressing gender and sexuality Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological citizenship As an assemblage of people and technologies we see the conference itself as enacting the conference theme. We welcome innovative uses of technology and creative session formats, including performance and interactive presentations, as well as traditional paper presentations. We are committed to the integration of scholarship from the Arts as well as more traditional forms of scholarship and we welcome early contact by email if space and/or technology requirements might present logistical challenges. Proposals will be reviewed and notification will be made by October 15, 2011. Final drafts of papers received before April 26, 2012 will be considered for possible publication. The Gender, Bodies & Technology website, online submission form, as well as the full program from the 2010 conference can be viewed at: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/. For more information, questions, or to be added to the GBT list serve, please contact: Sharon Elber, GBT Coordinator at selber@vt.edu.
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