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November 16-19, 2017 Proposal Deadline for Plenary Papers, Working Sessions, and Curated Panels – February 1, 2017 Grand Hyatt Atlanta Buckhead 3300 Peachtree Rd NE Atlanta, GA 30305 Extra/Ordinary Bodies: Interrogating the Performance and Aesthetics of “Difference” Historically, bodies have been divided into categories that separate the normal from the abnormal, the natural from the monstrous. In Generatione Animalium, Aristotle describes terata (monsters) as defective beings because they disrupt the order of nature. Subsequent approaches to defining our world, and by extension the human body, continued throughout the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and into our present understanding of scientific, racial, and moral difference. These “extraordinary bodies,” as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson calls them, have persistently been understood as aberrations that produce either fear or marvel. She says, “Because such bodies are rare, unique, material, and confounding of cultural categories, they function as magnets to which culture secures its anxieties, questions, and needs at any given moment.” A focus on extraordinary bodies also provides an entryway into a discussion of...

The program committee seeks proposals for Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) 2017, which will be hosted by Stanford University Libraries in Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley and a short commuter train ride to San Francisco, from 29-31 March, 2017.  The proposal deadline has been extended to 25 November 2016 (7:00 AM UTC), and registration is now open. PDA 2017 will showcase current and emerging scholarship on personal digital archiving and personal information management, as well as exciting and innovative projects and programs. More information about PDA 2017 can be found here: https://library.stanford.edu/projects/personal-digital-archiving-2017. Registration is available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/personal-digital-archiving-pda-2017-tickets-28669844276. The program committee seeks proposals for presentations, panels, lightning talks, posters (including demos), and workshops. The complete call for proposals is now available online here:  https://library.stanford.edu/projects/personal-digital-archiving-2017/call-proposals. Please submit your proposal here: https://library.stanford.edu/projects/personal-digital-archiving-2017/submit-proposal.   Many thanks, Josh Schneider (on behalf of the program and planning committees)   --   Josh Schneider  Assistant University Archivist ePADD Community Manager Special Collections & University Archives  Stanford University  josh.schneider@stanford.edu 650-497-6489...