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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT"><font size="2"><em>Please excuse cross postings and share widely...</em></font></span></div><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT"><font size="3"></font></span> </p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT">Gender, Bodies & Technology<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT">An Interdisciplinary Conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT">April 22-24, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-BoldMT">Roanoke, VA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-ItalicMT">Presented by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech</span></i></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-ItalicMT"><o:p></o:p></span></i> </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT">Performance art and new media, in addition to more traditional paper presentations, will be used to explore how technologies, broadly defined, construct, reinforce and destabilize gendered bodies. The format is designed to be inclusive, provocative and sociable.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT">The conference includes an opening plenary address by Jennifer Terry; a luncheon keynote by Alondra Nelson; the premiere of </span><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-ItalicMT">Fig.1</span></i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT">, a solo performance on aging and body image by Mark Evans Bryan featuring Sue Ott Rowlands; and a plenary showcasing examples of new media and performance art that engage gender, bodies and technology through...gender, bodies and technology.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT">Join us at the beautiful and historic Hotel Roanoke. <strong>The early bird registration deadline is March 1</strong>. For more information, please visit our website: </span><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: #001ae6; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-ItalicMT"><a href="http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt">www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt</a></span></i></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial-ItalicMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: #001ae6; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial-ItalicMT"></span></i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT"><o:p></o:p></span> </div></font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial">Ashley Tomisek<br>Co-organizer, Gender, Bodies & Technology Conference<br>Graduate Assistant, Department of Sociology<br>Women's & Gender Studies Program<br>555 McBryde Hall<br>Virginia Tech<br>Blacksburg, VA 24061</font></div></body></html>