Wednesday May 30th, 26pm

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Wednesday May 30th, 2-6pm
THE TRANSFORMING BODY IN POPULAR CULTURE

• Southampton University presents the first in a
  seminar series examining broad interpretations of
  the transformation of the human body in popular
  culture
• Seminar 1 The Transgressive and Shameful Body
• Speaker 1 Deborah L. Madsen (Department of
  English, University of Geneva) Writing the
  Lives of Dysmorphic Bodies in a Digital Era
• Speaker 2 Emily Fox-Kales (Department of
  Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Center
  for Cinema Studies, North-eastern
  University)Disappearing Acts Media-ting
  Fantasies of the Slender Body
• Speaker 3 John Miller (Department of English,
  University of Glasgow) Body as Canvas/Body as
  Wilderness Modern Primitives and the
  Possibility of an Ecocritical Skin
• Speaker 4 Julie Doyle Irmi Karl (Media and
  Communication Studies, University of Brighton)
  Shame on You Questioning health, gender and
  class in the promotion of cosmetic surgery in 10
  Years Younger
• Avenue Campus, Room 1173 (Refreshments Available)
  
• For more information, contact Professor Linda
  Ruth Williams at lrw1_at_soton.ac.uk or visit
  www.english.soton.ac.uk/transformingbody.htm
• More seminars to follow in Oct and Dec 07, and
  Jan and Mar 08
• Image courtesy of Alex Bradley