We are delighted to include a keynote address by Prof Les Back (Goldsmiths University) who will speak on: Inscriptions of Love: the body as an impermanent canvas and a plenary panel on Researching Bodies. Call for Abstracts The British Sociological Association invites submissions to its Ageing, Body and Society Study Group 6th Annual Conference 2014: Researching Bodies. We invite abstracts for poster and oral presentations that will be 15-20 minutes in length. We encourage researchers to share their perspectives on ‘researching bodies’ and welcome abstracts on different theoretical and methodological approaches, emergent ideas, work in progress, practitioner perspectives, and empirical findings. Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted before midnight on Friday 12 September 2014 online

Participants will be informed of the decision regarding their submission before Monday 29 September 2014.