Dear all, Below is a call for papers for the University of Southampton's Seminar series on "The Transforming Body in popular culture". In 2007 Southampton University will be hosting a series of seminars considering the unique position of the transforming body within popular culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This series will provide a forum at which these sensational spectacles and cultural artefacts can be addressed in the context of a reassessment of established theories of the body, providing new ways of framing and understanding body culture. Possible areas of interest might include: • Make-over narratives and ‘cinderella stories’ • Gender and transgender • The transforming celebrity body • Medical/surgical narratives • The hybrid or obscene body • Body art, performance art and fetish culture • Monstrosity, plasticity and body horror • The body as sick/damaged or whole/perfected The full CfP, and details of abstract applications, dates, travel and expenses are attached. Thanks for your consideration, Dan Varndell ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu