Women and their body

Mar 15, 2023, 12:00 PM → Mar 17, 2023, 8:00 PM Europe/Berlin

O-Building (Paderborn University)

International Conference Women and their body, March 16 & 17, 2023

 

Recent events have shown that it is urgent and fundamentally important to shed new light, through philosophical, linguistic, literary, scientific, medical and artistic perspectives, on the female body and the position of women in relation to their body. Too often it seems that women do not have the right to determine their own body, although men have never been deprived of this right. The question of power over the body is strongly linked to the distinction between men and women. It seems that men have more rights and power on their own body than women. But how is this possible? What is the status of the female body in culture and society? Why is the female body both, an object of desire and a battlefield for demonstrating male power? To what extent have medicine and technology interfered in recent years with the female body and with what consequences?

The conference Women and their body intends to enlarge the network by making it more interdisciplinary, starting with a multidisciplinary Talk Series and Conference. Early scholars as well as established researchers are invited to send abstracts covering different fields in the humanities, speaking about Women and their body. New Voices is a place to connect and to foster communication on our work.

On March, 16th and 17th 2023 (Timezone: Berlin GMT+1), an international, hybrid conference will take place, with a Masterworkshop on March 15th.

For further information or any question, please feel free to send an email to contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org

For more information on this conference visit also our landing page.

Conference Booklet.pdf

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Wednesday, March 15

Welcome Masterworkshop - MASTERWORKSHOP STARTS AT 2:50 PM

Convener: Dr. Jil Muller & Felix Grewe

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Masterworkshop March 15, 2023

14h15 Welcome/ Registration

14h30 Female Reproductive Bodies and the Shift from Risk to Threat Society
14h55 Female Body in Literature: The Vegetarian
15h20 Writing Travails - On Maternity and Corporality in Hélène Cixous's Écriture Féminine
15h45 Coffee break
16h00 Breast Cancer Survivor Narratives and Identity Power
16h25 Media Photography as a Tool for Objectification
16h50 The New Sex Wars? Women’s Bodies and the Feminist Polarization regarding Sex Work

17h15 Final Remarks

Conveners: Dr Jil Muller & Felix Grewe - Welcome, - -, Ingrid Mae H. de Jesus: Female Body in Literature: The Vegetarian, - -, Charlotte Bomert: Writing Travails - On Maternity and Corporality in Hélène Cixous's Écriture Féminine

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Coffee Break

Masterworkshop March 15, 2023

14h15 Welcome/ Registration

14h30 Female Reproductive Bodies and the Shift from Risk to Threat Society
14h55 Female Body in Literature: The Vegetarian
15h20 Writing Travails - On Maternity and Corporality in Hélène Cixous's Écriture Féminine
15h45 Coffee break
16h00 Breast Cancer Survivor Narratives and Identity Power
16h25 Media Photography as a Tool for Objectification
16h50 The New Sex Wars? Women’s Bodies and the Feminist Polarization regarding Sex Work

17h15 Final Remarks

Conveners: Tara Mastrelli: Breast Cancer Survivor Narratives and Identity Power, - -, Şilan Dağlar Göç: Media Photography as a Tool for Objectification, - -, Kaja Kröger: The New Sex Wars? Women’s Bodies and the Feminist Polarization regarding Sex Work, - -, Dr Jil Muller & Felix Grewe - Final Remarks

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Thursday, March 16

Registration (Presence Participants)

Welcome

Conveners: Dr Jil Muller, Prof. Ruth E. Hagengruber

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Coffee Break

Session: Ancient Period

Conveners: Chelsea Harry: Sappho and the Body in Desire., - -, Enrico Piergiacomi: Leontion and Epicurean Woman Body., - -, George N. Vlahakis: The real body-the imaginative body. Women and their bodies in the ancient Greek drama.

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Session: Digital Technologies and Cyborg

Conveners: Felix Grewe: The Reinvention of the human body: Cyborgs, String Figures and new Boundaries, - -, Annalisa Cananzi: Women’s body and digital technologies: disembodied freedom or reproduction of social hierarchies?

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Session: Contemporary Thoughts

Convener: Piergiacomo Severini: Oblique paths to truth. Myth and bodily elements in Simone Weil, Jeanne Hersch and María Zambrano

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Coffee Break

Session: Contemporary Thoughts

Conveners: Lisa Krall: Mothers matter! Mother(hood) as material-discursive entanglement, - -, Henning Nörenberg: “Throwing like a girl”, “spreading like a man”? Body, power, and the sense of being in the right.

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Session: Medicine

Conveners: Amalia Cerrito: Theoretically contended: the female body in 13th-century theology, anthropology, and natural philosophy, - -, Amber L. Griffioen: Losing a Part of You? On the Philosophical Relevance of Miscarriage and other Forms of Pregnancy Loss

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Lunch Break

Session: Contemporary Thoughts

Convener: Ariadni Polychroniou: The theoretical construction of female embodiment in the early feminist phenomenological framework of Iris Marion Young

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Session: Medicine

Conveners: Julia Schneider: Female Reproductive Bodies and the Shift from Risk to Threat Society, - -, Stella Villarmea: A New Logos for Genos: Approaching a Philosophy of Birth, - -, Sarah Pawlett Jackson: Menstrual temporality: Cyclic bodies in a linear world

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Session: Culture and Religion

Conveners: Gaganjot Kaur: The Challenge of Menstrual Shame in South-Asian Cultures: A Phenomenological Study, - -, Ayegboyin Abimbola: A Comparative Study of Women’s Body as Ritual Containment in African Indigenous Churches and African Indigenous Religion in South-Western Nigeria

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Coffee Break

Session: Culture and Religion

Conveners: Natalia Anna Michna: Tenderness towards the body as a cognitive, ethical and aesthetic imperative, - -, Shadi Heidarifar: The Politics of Embodiment, Intersectionality, and Recognition, - -, Susan Stark: The Reproduction of Power Imbalances: a holistic, abolitionist approach to social injustice

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Session: Medicine

Conveners: Carlota Serrahima: The experience of dysmenorrhea, - -, Ainhoa Rodriguez: Been Seen whilst hidden, - -, Paula Muhr: Current Neuroimaging Research into Hysteria and its Ambiguous Relation to the Traumatised Female Body

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Coffee Break

Session: Culture and Religion

Convener: Robin Wang: Body as a Miniature of Cosmos: Female Daoist Embodied Thinking

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Session: Medicine

Convener: Urszula Lisowska: The Politics of the Thyroid. Re-Claiming One’s Own Metabolism

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Friday, March 17

Session: Literature and Film

Conveners: Olga Gomilko: Female Body and Freedom: Controversy of Life or Social Dilemman in Marko Vovchok's Narrations, - -, Shira Levy: Oral storytelling, the Female Body and Counter-Hegemonic Narrative in Grace Paley’s “Goodbye and Good Luck”, - -, Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka: Resisting Reproductive Rights Abuses: Womanhood and Motherhood in Contemporary American Short Fiction

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Session: Violence

Conveners: Björn Freter: Epistemic anti-female* violence and its consequences for the female* body, - -, Sara Cohen Shabot: Keeping Birthing Bodies Grotesque - Or Resisting Obstretic Violence through Crip Phenomenology, - -, Katja Čičigoj: Body as obstacle, nature as unjust, Reconsidering somatophobia in Beauvoir and Firestone

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Coffee Break

Session: Literature and Film

Conveners: S. Simone Spinelli: Arca as Demiurge: How she builds her own body, - -, Noemi Fregara: Female body: a site of rebellion

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Session: Violence

Convener: Evina Glantzi: Autonomy, Gender Violence and the Burdens of the Oppressed Body

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Session: Politics

Convener: Matthew Crippen and Xiaoyue Wei: Selective Permeability, Political Affordances and the Gendering of Cities

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Lunch Break

Session: Arts and Architecture

Conveners: Tyler D. Farmer: The Progression of 20th Century Dance Norms as a Model of Feminist Sexual Liberation., - -, Irene Breuer: The panoptic gaze: Female body and architectural space, - -, Benedetta Milani: Divine and Demonic. A Matter of Power and Femininity

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Session: Politics

Conveners: Mariya Shcherbyna: Beauty practices and Ukrainian women refugees: another double bias., - -, Anastasia Guidi Itokazu + Camila Ribeiro Andrade: No one releases anyone’s hand: attacks on Brazilian women reproductive rights during Jair Bolsonaro’s government, - -, Madhavi Mohan: Abortion in the US and birthing people.

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Coffee Break

Session: Early Modern Period

Conveners: Elżbieta Filipow: On being ‘indisposed’ to study and work or the discourse of the Victorian women’s menstruation, - -, Carmen Guarino: Distractibility: gender perspectives on mental presence starting from Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen, - -, Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin: “Do women think with their body?” Descartes, Malebranche, Poulain de la Barre

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Session: Sexuality and Prostitution

Conveners: Aura-Elena Schussler: A Feminist Critique of the Objectification of the Female Body, - -, Sandra Markewitz: The Virgin Thinker. On Women Denying the Sexual Marketplace, - -, Hassan Ali: Dancing With Différance: Transsexual Sadomasochism as a General Economy

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Coffee Break

Session: Early Modern Period

Convener: Emanuele Costa: Anne Conway and the Feminine: Between Receptacle and Embodied Thought

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Session: Sexuality and Prostitution

Convener: Laura Martin: Surrogacy, Prostitution, and Women’s Autonomy

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Conveners: Dr Jil Muller, Prof. Ruth E. Hagengruber

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