*Please note: this call for papers is also available on the Association website – www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef
Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies
Call for Papers / Performances/Film/ Video/ other Visual Arts
“Breaking the Mold, Breaking the Silence”
A National Conference on Body Image
04-05 November 2010
Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
NANCY’S CHAIR IN WOMEN’S STUDIES at MSVU is pleased to invite you to
participate in a national conference on Body Image that will include a
range of issues, for youth and elders, girls and boys, men and women,
diverse sexualities, cultures, and ethnicities.
PURPOSE: To share the information, scholarly and popular, and the
experience needed to take back our bodies as our most useful resource of
intelligence, productivity, beauty, and accomplishment. The conference
is a celebration of the food, activity, youth, and age that will give us
continual physical and mental vitality.
YOU SHOULD ATTEND this conference if you are a teacher or librarian who
works with people from grade 5, through university, to adult education;
health professional; scholar or artist whose research interest is Body
Image; parent, student, or member of the general public who wishes to be
more informed.
WE WELCOME PROPOSALS for performances, screenings, panels, or
individual papers, on any aspect of the Body Image topic. In particular,
but not limited to, we seek proposals which address any of the following
themes or issues:
-Self esteem, prevention, and identification of individuals at risk
from disordered eating.
-Appreciation of a variety of standards of beauty, girls’ studies,
issues of aging, and building communities around a rainbow of cultures.
-Doing nutrition and the joys of good food.
-Body Image Resources: media literacy, on-line, peer counselling,
spoken and written word, visual arts, video, etc.
-Disabilities, adaptations, and varieties of accommodations.
We welcome delegates from ages 12 to 90. There are possibilities for
publication and distance education.
Registration fees are nominal and cover all costs including meals and
nutrition breaks:
$45.00, professional; $3.00, students/ non professional.
To register for this conference and/or submit a 250 word abstract
please email Mary Lou O’Hara at the address below. Abstracts should be
submitted by June 4, 2010. Abstracts will undergo a peer review process
and we anticipate notification by July 30, 2010. The abstract must
include a title and author’s name. It should be single spaced, with no
headers or footers. It should be on one page. Please send your abstract
as a Microsoft Word document attached to an email. The subject line of
your email should state: “Body Image abstract.”
Thank you for your interest and we would be delighted if you would pass
the information on to others.
For further information please contact rita.deverell@msvu.ca
Rita Shelton Deverell, C.M., Ed.D.
Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies
Mount Saint Vincent University
166 Bedford Highway
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3M 2J6
902-457-6257–office
TO REGISTER AND/OR SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: mary.lou.ohara@msvu.ca
“Breaking the Mold, Breaking the Silence” A National Conference on
Body Image, November 4 – 5, 2010, Mount Saint Vincent University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Call for Papers/ Performances/Film/Video/other Visual Arts. The
deadline for submissions is June 4th, 2010.
Name
Organization/Institution
Department/Field of Study
Please provide the title for your presentation
Please provide an abstract of your paper/presentation (no more than 250
words.)
Note: Registration fees can be sent by cheque ($45.00, professional;
$3.00, students/non-professional) to Mary Lou O’Hara, Mount Saint
Vincent University, 166 Bedford Highway, Halifax NS B3M 2J6 or paid at
the time of the conference.