Intersecting Discourses of Materiality in the Sciences and the Humanities

Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, Seminar Rooms 1+2, 3 and 4
University of Edinburgh, 28-29 May 2011

Registration
Opening Remarks
Keynote Lecture by
‘Neoliberal Bodies and Feminist Subjects’, with response by Lena Wånggren
Morning Tea
Panel Bracket 1A, 1B & 1C

Xavier Aldana Reyes, Lancaster University, UK

‘Snuff’ is Enough: Corporeal Liminality in Contemporary Horror
Jasie Stokes, London Consortium, UK
Like Socks to be Mended: The Broken War-body as Thing in Post-World War One Art and
Literature
Faruk Kokoglu, Mugla University, Turkey
Tessism or the Masochistic Body without Organs and Contract in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Peta Hinton, University of New South Wales, Australia

The Quantum Dance and the World’s ‘Extraordinary Liveliness’: Refiguring Corporeal Ethics in Karan
Barad’s Agential Realism
Angus McBlane, Cardiff University, UK
Posthuman Corporeality: From Organic Bodies to Inorganic Life
Sue Hawksley, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
Bodytext: Speech, Script, (Re)action, Iteration. An Enactive Inquiry into Embodiment and Language

Tolulope Onabolu, Independent Researcher and Architect, Nigeria

The Stage/Chōra: Proscenium, Procession and Pleasure
Hannah Lammin, University of Greenwich, UK
Community and Ecstatic Embodiment in Underground Dance Music Culture
Fiona Hanley, Tami Gadir & Irene Noy, University of Edinburgh, UK
Stepping Out and Into Rhythms: Moving Corporeal Inquiries from Music, Art History and Cultural
Studies
 Lunch
Keynote Lecture by
‘Encounters with Inhuman Ecstasy: Movement without Time’, with response by Maria Parsons

Afternoon Tea
Panel Bracket 2A, 2B & 2C

Jemima Repo, University of Helsinki, Finland

The Life Function: The Biopolitics of Sexuality Revisited
John Paul Narkunas, City University of New York, USA
‘Completed’ Subjectivity through Death: Organ Harvesting, Kazuo Ishigiro’s Never Let Me Go, and
Global Biopolitical Regulation
Eve Katsouraki, University of East London, UK
Spectres of Enchantment – Embodied Manifestations
Rachel Harkness & Caroline Gatt, University of Edinburgh IASH, UK / University of Aberdeen, UK
Movements: Exploring Work Spaces and Processes in the Light of Environmental Action

Michael R. Stewart, University of British Columbia, Canada

Excess and Re(dress): Mobilizing Scarlett in Gone with the Wind
Rosemary Deller, Central European University, Hungary
Getting to the Meat(iness) of the Matter: The Dynamic Decay of Jana Sterbak’s Flesh Dress of an
Albino Anorexic (1987)
Anne Graefer, Newcastle University, UK
Queering Skin: Re-reading Sexuality through the Skin of Online Representations in dlisted.com
Norman Cherry, University of Lincoln, UK
Living Art - Angiogenetic Body Adornment

Sarah Cefai, University of Sydney, Australia

Critical Feelings as Agencies of Movement
Zoe Roth, King’s College London, UK
Embodied and Creative Processes: Beyond the Body as a Theme in Literature
Kirsty Martin, University of Oxford, UK
Motion, Emotion and Sympathy between Bodies in the Work of D. H. Lawrence
John Golden, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Embodying Absence: Motions of Affect in In Memoriam
Wine Reception at Surgeons’ Hall
 Keynote Lecture by
‘The Bacchae and the Theatricality of Cruelty’, with response by Karin Sellberg
Morning Tea
Panel Bracket 3A, 3B & 3C

Shih-Mei Lee, University of Edinburgh, UK

Bodily Metaphors in Digital Spaces
Sebastian Schmidt-Tomczak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Cyberpunk Bodies on the Move: Tracing Corporeality in Japanese Animation
Gavin MacDonald, Manchester School of Art, UK
On Lines and Lives: Mobile Bodies and the Mapped Trace in Visual Art

J. Joris van Gastel, Leiden University, Netherlands

Beholding Bernini: Sculpture and the Movement in Seeing
Juliet Macdonald, University of Huddersfield, UK
Lines of Movement, Points of Stillness: Drawing and the Figuration of Bodies
Johanna Hällsten, Loughborough University, UK
Sonic Movements - Spatial Reflexivity

Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Thermodynamic Bodies in Movement in Dicken’s Hard Times
Erika Kvistad, University of York, UK
Love and Stabbing in Jane Eyre
Douglas Iain Clark, University of Strathclyde, UK
‘Existence - in itself’: Emily Dickinson and the Movement to Absence in the Poetic Body
Lunch
 Keynote Lecture by
‘The Divivacities of Cixous and Derrida’, with response by Kamillea Aghtan ~
Afternoon Tea
Panel Bracket 4A, 4B & 4C

Anna Chromik, University of Silesia, Poland

Pulsating Motility: Corporeal Tropes in the Constructions of Pre-subjectivity
Rebecca Coleman, Lancaster University, UK
Transforming Images: Materialisation, the Future and the Virtual
Anna Gibbs, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Mimesis as a Mode of Knowing: Seeing Beyond Vision in the Aesthetic Practice of Jean Painleve

Peter Arnds, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Bodies in Transgression: Hunchbacks and the Sieg Heil Salute in Literature and the Visual Arts
Mark Perlman, Western Oregon University, USA
Musical Communication through Movement: A Philosophical and Semiotic Examination of the
Conductor’s Gestures
Kathleen Coessens & Anne Douglas, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium / Robert Gordon University,
UK
Movement and Moment: In-between Discreteness and Continuity
Ana Zimmermann, University of São Paulo, Brazil
The Secret Ciphers of Human Movement

Alison N. Crockford, University of Edinburgh, UK

Sex in Stasis, Bodies in Becoming: The Monstrous Body and the Eroticisation of the Scientific Gaze
Megan Coyer, University of Glasgow, UK
Phrenological Transformations and Murderous Confessions
Samantha Walton, University of Edinburgh, UK
The ‘Self’ at the Mercy of Mind and Body in Interwar Crime Fiction
Closing Remarks