198 Bodies in motion

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
NB 436 (Faculty of Economics)

RC38 Biography and Society (host committee)

Language: English
Session Organizer:
Kathy DAVIS, Senior Researcher, Netherlands
Chair:
Susan BELL, Bowdoin College, USA
Ballroom bodies: Creating the movement, creating the look (Oral Presentation)
Julia ERICKSEN, temple university, USA; Jonathan MARION, UC San Diego, USA

Gender, 'ideals' and body image in ballroom and Latin American dancing (Oral Presentation)
Vicki HARMAN, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, United Kingdom

Dance and biography: Or why should a biographical researcher be interested in tango? (Oral Presentation)
Kathy DAVIS, Senior Researcher, Netherlands

Materiality and biography (Oral Presentation)
Beate LITTIG, Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria

Biographical experience of women with cancer (Distributed Paper)
Ritma RUNGULE, University of Latvia, Latvia; Maruta PRANKA, Researcher, Latvia; Tana LACE, Riga Stradins University, Latvia; Stefan DZERVITE, Riga Stradins University, Latvia; Stefan MIKLASEVICS, Riga Stradins University, Latvia