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First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5 - 8, 2008


Working Group on
the Body in the Social Sciences WG03

Main theme
Mapping the body: The bodily factor in memory and social action


Programme Coordinator
Bianca Maria Pirani, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy, biancamaria.pirani@uniroma1.it

Venue of WG03 sessions:

Faculty of Philology
University of Barcelona
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585
08007 Barcelona, Spain, map

Session 1: The new boundaries between bodies and technologies

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Presentation of the ISA WG03 collective book The New Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008)
Chair: Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, University of Haifa, Israel, dkalekin@univ.haifa.ac.il

Session 2: Social mind and locative technologies: the bodily borders

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chairs: Roberto Cipriani, University of Roma Tre, Italy, rciprian@uniroma3.it and Bianca Maria Pirani, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy, biancamaria.pirani@uniroma1.it

Session 3: Dancing bodies in cyberspace

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chairs: Tatiana Mazali, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, tatiana.mazali@polito.it and Thomas Spence Smith, University of Rochester, USA, tsmt@mail.rochester.edu

Session 4: : The absent body

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Joint session of WG03 The Body in the Social Sciences and RC36 Alienation Theory and Research
Chairs: Lauren Langman, Loyola Univeristy of Chicago, USA, Llang944@aol.com
and Bianca Maria Pirani, University of Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy, biancamaria.piran@alice.it

Session 5: Spectacles of the body

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Joint sessions of WG03 The Body in the Social Sciences and RC36 Alienation Theory and Research
Chairs: Marvin T. Prosono, Missouri University, USA, mprosono@missouristate.edu and Bianca Maria Pirani, University of Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy, biancamaria.pirani@uniroma1.it

Session 6: Body and nature in leisure

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Joint session of WG03 The Body in the Social Sciences and RC13 Sociology of Leisure
Chairs: Bianca Maria Pirani, University of Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy, biancamaria.pirani@uniroma1.it and Veena Sharma, Veena Sharma, India, veena@mail.w3c.com

Session 7: Identités existentielles et sociétales

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chair: Pierre Bouvier, University of Paris X, Nanterre, France, pbouvier@msh-paris.fr

Session 8: Authorized knowledge and the politics of bodily research: Transgender/transsexual men and masculinities in recent autobiographical, cultural studies, and sociological literatures - between transgender and transsexual experience and meaning making

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Salvador Vidal Ortiz, American University, USA, vidalort@american.edu

Session 9: The body: workshop of the senses

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Chairs: Sonia Giusti, University of Cassino, Italy, soniagiusti@libero.it and Floriana Ciccodicola, University of Cassino, Italy, ciccodicolaf@libero.it

Session 10: Final Round Table: Mapping bodies. The bodily factor in social networking

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chairs: Bianca Maria Pirani, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy, biancamaria.pirani@uniroma1.it and Thomas Spence Smith, University of Rochester, USA, tsmt@mail.rochester.edu