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The Body: limits, constructions, intensity (Vérone)

The Body: limits, constructions, intensity (Vérone)

Publié le par Université de Lausanne (Source : Francesca Dainese)

The Body : limits, constructions, intensity

International PhD Conference

20-22 September 2017
 

 

Nous habitons notre corps bien avant de le penser, Albert Camus

The body has been the object of manifold re-definitions, and yet it remains an undiscovered territory, bordering on the uncanny. It is a nomadic entity, a witness of history, of stasis and movement. While various forms of knowledge can but asymptotically touch the body, art gives a kaleidoscopic representation of it. Existence seems to be the only common ground of this whirlwind of art, science and philosophy. Indeed, for all human beings, to exist means, more than anything, to adhere to the body that we are. The body turns into the precondition not only of every gesture, but also of every thought. And yet it seems absurd to reduce existence to its biological dimension only. Whereas grasping the irreducible complexity of the body is at the core of the scientific project, voicing it is the ill-concealed destiny of literature. If, according to Nietzsche, “only that which has no history can be defined”, we face here an irreducible complexity that escapes the realm of words, an elusive swerve that is nonetheless intimately tied to life. This conference aims at theoretically thinking the multi-faceted core of being in the world, the body.

Proposals are not limited to, but may address any of the following topics:

 The altered body

Body and illness

Body and trauma

Body and suffering

The fragmented body

The transformations  of the body

The Seasons of the body: from childhood to old age

Pregnancy, maternity, abortion

Suicide and euthanasia

The dead body

The mask and the double

Obesity and anorexia

The body and the Other

The limits of the body

The self vs the body

The body as jail

The body of the Other

Cyborg

Body and sexuality

Sexual satisfaction

Sexual dependency

Transexuality, intersexuality

Sexual orientation

Sado-masochism

Body and culture

Religion

Rites of passage

Death rituals

Reincarnation

Anthroporfism and zoomorfism

The body as political act

Body’s rights

Body trade

Body and arts

Body art

Performance art

Actual body and virtual body

 

The PhD international Conference will take place in Verona on 20-22 september 2017

Abstracts: Please submit an abstract of 250 words as well as a short biography of 100 words by April 30, 2017 to the following address: convegnocorpo@gmail.com 

The time limit for each presentation is 20 minutes, followed by discussion. All submissions should be written in English or Italian.

 

Organising and scientific committee: Giulia Angonese, Francesca Dainese, Andrea Nicolini, Carlo Vareschi

Address: Università degli Studi di Verona, Via San Francesco 22, 37129 Verona, Italy.