Syndicate: Call for essay collection on death and the corpse (fwd)

[Thomas Keenan <inke@snafu.de>]

Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:32:23 +0200
From: Thomas Keenan <keenan@bard.edu>
Subject: Call for essay collection on death and the corpse (fwd)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: E'va Tettenborn <bg25201@binghamton.edu>
Subject: essay collection

Dear Professor Keenan,

I am working on an essay collection and would like to ask you to please
forward the following call for submissions to interested parties. Your
help is much appreciated!

Thank you,
,
Eva

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PLEASE FORWARD

We are soliciting critical papers to be included in a collection on death
and the corpse. Essays should investigate events or cultural phenomena
that focus on the actual display of corpses in public, for example the
German exhibit "Koerperwelten". Of particular interest are works
investigating the spectacular aspects of such events.

Topics may include but are not limited to:
o the real corpse as art, art and the corpse
o the aesthetics of death
o the corpse as public phenomenon
o corpses and freak shows
o anatomy and the public, public anatomy
o ethical questions

Please send abstracts (2 pages) by 09/30/2000 to:
,
Eva Tettenborn
Binghamton University, SUNY
Department of English
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

or e-mail abstracts to bg25201@binghamton.edu (please do not send
attachments)

The deadline for the completed paper is 11/30/00.



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