Les corps mangeants et les corps buvants

Bodies that Eat, Bodies that Drink. Biocultural approaches to nutrition, incorporation and commensality

Call for Papers

ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF CORPUS

Vitoria-Gasteiz, May 24th-25th 2018

CORPUS INTERNATIONAL GROUP FOR THE CULTURAL STUDIES OF THE BODY
& UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO FACULTAD DE LETRAS

Founded in 2009 after a series of seminars organised between 2001 and 2008 at the EHESS (Paris) and the Autonomous University of Madrid, CORPUS aims to be an effective participant in the construction of a widely diverse and scientifically based dialogue on the subject of the anthropological aspects of the body. CORPUS aims to offer a forum of cross-thinking and open dialogues about this fascinating object of study.
CORPUS now boasts around 460 researchers from more than sixty five different countries. The eleventh International Symposium of CORPUS will be organised with the support of the Universidad del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) on May 2018. Its theme will be “Bodies that eat, bodies that drink. Biocultural approaches to nutrition, incorporation and commensality”.
Consequently, we invite researchers (anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, philosophers, physicians, psychologists, sociologists, etc.) interested in the bodies that eat and drink to participate at this meeting, especially considering one of the following themes:

• Cultures of the body that eat and drink: way of eating/drinking, positions and forms of involvement of the body during the eating/drinking processes, use of utensils, etc.
• Sensory experiences and their cultural transcriptions: epistemology of sensory analysis, cultural use, control and lecture of facial expressions of disgust/satisfaction, biocultural dynamics of taste, etc.
• Cultural, medical and psychological implications of food/drink incorporation: magic eating, placebo/nocebo, superfoods, ideal diets, aphrodisiac/anaphrodisiac foods, etc.
• Dietetics paradigms and nutritional knowledges: ancient, traditional and biomedical dietetics conceptions, popular reception of academic nutritional knowledge, etc.
• Cultural responses to the physiological consequences of food/drink incorporation: management of drunkenness and flush syndromes, aesthetic constructions of slim/fat bodies, material culture and representations of excretion, etc.
• Eating disorders, malnutrition and their social and political readings.
• Valorisation and demonization of drinks/foods within the framework of health politics: forms, effectiveness and social consequences.
• Gender approaches to forms of commensality, rituals of consumption, etc.
• Representations of the bodies that eat or drink in arts and advertising.

Presentations will be preferably delivered in English. The proposals must include an abstract (400 words) and a current CV. The deadline for receiving presentation proposals is January 20th 2018. Please use the addresses provided below to send your proposal to Frédéric Duhart, Maria José García Soler y Paris Aguilar Piña. All proposals will be evaluated by an international scientific committee.
There will be no registration fee. Transportation, visa, travel insurance costs and accommodation will be the sole responsibility of each participant.

Contacts:
Frédéric Duhart
CORPUS General Coordinator
frederic.duhart@wanadoo.fr

Maria José García Soler
11th Symposium Coordinator
mj.garcia@ehu.eus

Paris Aguilar Piña
Scientific Committee Coordinator
papcomplex@gmail.com

More information about CORPUS and its activities: http://corpus.comlu.com