Sensible Flesh Seminars
Sensible Flesh: Rethinking the Body in the 21st Century
The second session of the seminar group, Sensible Flesh: Rethinking the Body in the 21st Century, which explores new and emerging theories of the body and embodiment.
14th November 2011, Room S8.08
Astrida Neimanis (LSE):
Flows of Biomatter, Flows of Global Power: On Becoming a Body of Water
Tom Widger (Brunel):
Situating suicide as a problem of the body
12th December 2011, Room S8.08
Annette-Carina van der Zaag (Goldsmiths):
Imagining a Feminist Body Within the Biomedical Development of Vaginal Microbicides
Fiona Johnstone (Birkbeck):
AIDS, Art, and the Corporeal Turn
13th February 2012, Anatomy Museum
Maria Salgado LLopis (Kingston):
Moving Bodies: Exploring the Power of the Dance Performer
5th March 2012, Room S8.08
Laura Davies (Oxford):
The Speaking Body
Sarah Pett (York):
Coetzee and Embodied Meaning/Stories
16th April 2012, Room S8.08
Andrea Zittlau (Rostock):
The Uncanny Body: Freud, Aesthetic Categories and 19th Century Body Politics
Danielle Sands (Royal Holloway):
Rethinking Embodiment: Ipseity in Human and Non-human Animals
To encourage dialogue and debate, the speakers kindly made their draft papers available beforehand. If you are interested in reading the papers or you would like more information please email Zoe Paigen-Roth.
Endorsed by the Comparative Literature programme (KCL) and supported by the Roberts Fund.