Submitted by itirakdogan on Mon, 07/12/2009 - 11:59.
War and the Body
Interdisciplinary one day conference
Centre for European & International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth and the
War and Media Network
Friday June 11th 2010
Imperial War Museum, London UK.
War is fundamentally embodied, the most radically embodying event in which human beings
ever collectively participate (Scarry, 1985: 71). War is enacted and experienced
through the surveillance, classification, wounding, rape, mutilation, torture, death and
