Author Archives: Stephanie Lloyd

Books

Reintroducing “Foreign Correspondents”

By Stephanie Lloyd
This article is part of the series:

We’re very pleased to reintroduce the “Foreign Correspondents” section of Somatosphere. The aim of the section is to provide contributors and readers of Somatosphere with a forum for recent, important works that appear in languages other than English – as well as announcements about conferences, journal issues, and other related projects. We proudly present the section’s first installment, a review …

Announcements

CfP: History of neurosciences and social and behavioural sciences conference

By Stephanie Lloyd

Below is a second call for papers for a joint, interdisciplinary conference that looks highly interesting:

The first Joint Conference of Cheiron (The international Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences) and The International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) will be held in Calgary / Banff (Canada). The main conference will be from June …

Features

From Nature/Culture to Culturally-Dominated Nature: A Spring Conference Overview

By Stephanie Lloyd

A particularly packed spring conference season recently wound up for me, having attended four conferences over the course of about a month and a half. Two of these stood out for the contrast of the approaches to the human, personhood and the self and the questions they raised for the study of each. What was most interesting, was the relative …

Announcements

CfP: ‘French Theory’ in circulation, AAA 2010 — deadline (28 Feb)

By Stephanie Lloyd

Foucault et al. from Paris to California and Back Again: The Creolisation of “French Theory”

In this call for papers for the 2010 AAA meetings in New Orleans (17-21 November) we seek contributions from individuals who not only draw on French theorists, but who examine the ways in which “French Theory” travels, circulates and is re-imagined. Further, we particularly welcome …

Features

Field notes from Paris: social pathology and the globalization of sentiments

By Stephanie Lloyd

My institutional homes keep me crossing the Atlantic, between Montreal and Paris. During my current stay in Paris I’m concentrating on one of the stickiest questions in my research on social phobia, or social anxiety disorder, which has recently been imported into France. I am pre-occupied with the question: why here, why now? Basically: why it is that people in …