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DESCRIPTION:Conference: Poetics and Politics of Embodiment in Premodern Chi
 na\n\nDate & Time: April 17 to 18\, 2026 | All Day\, In-Person Event\; fin
 d the program here: https://www.mcgill.ca/hsiang-lectures/conferences/poet
 ics-and-politics-e... \n	Location: McGill University · Thomson House (3650 
 Rue McTavish\, Montréal\, QC H3A 1X1)\n\nThis conference brings together s
 ixteen papers that investigate how bodies in premodern China were transfor
 med\, disciplined\, and rendered legible through diverse practices. Moving
  across religious traditions\, aesthetic forms\, medical and legal archive
 s\, and vernacular cultures\, the contributors collectively show that repr
 esentations of the body in premodern China are best understood not as stat
 ic essences but as technologies—dynamic configurations produced at the int
 ersection of material craft\, textual mediation\, ethical systems\, and so
 cial negotiations.\n\nOur gathering relies on diverse disciplinary approac
 hes\, challenging the very notion of the “body” as a stable analytic categ
 ory. What constituted the human body and embodiment in premodern China\, a
 nd how might such conceptions intersect with—or diverge from—those in othe
 r historical and cultural contexts? How did ideas of corporeality intersec
 t with questions of gender\, class\, performance\, and spirituality? By fo
 regrounding the body as both metaphorical and material\, we seek to foster
  conversations that unsettle inherited binaries—such as mind and matter\, 
 self and other\, text and flesh.\n\nOur diverse papers illuminate a shared
  preoccupation with the body as a technological\, semiotic\, and moral pro
 ject—one articulated through spinning wheels and cookpots\, diagrams and l
 yrics\, sleeping mats and battlefield clinics\, thresholds and miracle tal
 es. By attending to how bodies are constituted\, this interdisciplinary sy
 mposium offers a polyphonic account of embodiment in premodern China\, rev
 ealing the inventiveness with which historical actors made sense of human 
 life and its possibilities. Ultimately\, our goal is to open new dialogues
  across various traditions\, and to rethink how the body became meaningful
  in premodern China and beyond.\n\nThis conference is open to the public. 
 If you would like to attend lunch on either or both days\, please RSVP her
 e.\n\n-----\n\n \n\nThis event is supported by:\n\n\n	James P. Geiss and Ma
 rgaret Y. Hsu Foundation\n	Foo-hooa Se 復華詩 (Renaissance of Chinese Poetry)
 \n	Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs\n	Centre for Global Chinese 
 Studies 全球中华研究中心\n	Department of East Asian Studies\, McGill University\n\n
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LOCATION:Thomson House\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1Y2\, 3650 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Conference: Poetics and Politics of Embodiment in Premodern China
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/conference-poetics-and-po
 litics-embodiment-premodern-china-372213
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