Call for Posters

Open to researchers from all disciplines with an interest in

  • DISFIGUREMENT
  • THE FACE AND THE BODY: THEIR REPRESENTATIONS AND TREATMENT
  • COSMETIC SURGERY
  • PROSTHESIS
  • MASKS

UNIFORM SCULPTURE ‘WALLACE’ © PADDY HARTLEY

Poster entries are now welcome for the poster sessions that will take place as part of the international conference ‘Les Gueules Cassées: disfigurement and its legacies’ (University of Exeter, 12-14 March 2015).

The poster sessions will allow you to showcase your project and to find out more about the latest international research on disfigurement and its legacies. It is possible to both enter a poster and present a research paper at the conference. Refreshments will be served and participants are warmly invited to attend the keynote speech by Prof Bernard Devauchelle, who performed the first partial face transplant in 2005 (Thursday 12 March 2015, 6pm, Forum Alumni Auditorium).

Posters will be displayed in the Forum for the duration of the conference and a prize will be awarded to the winning entry.

For further information or to enter your poster, email

The deadline for entering your poster (name + abstract) is Friday 6 February 2015.

Specifications:

  • format A1, A2 or A3 portrait
  • black and white or colour
  • printed copy, flat (not rolled up) to be submitted by Friday 6 March 2015

Gueules Cassées in the Cultures of Europe seminar series

Next week’s Cultures of Europe seminar on The War Damaged Body in Twentieth Century Europe will include a paper on ‘The Face of War’: photographic representations of facially injured soldiers. Through a discussion of visual representations, this paper investigates the experience and images of gueules cassées of the First World War, and explores the multi-faceted impact of these injuries and the ways in which they were portrayed.

All welcome!

Monday 27 January, 5.00-6.30

Forum Seminar Room 6 , The Forum, University of Exeter