Friday 22 January 2010

Bodies and Socio-Histories Schedule Announced

Bodies and Socio-Histories

19-20 February 2010

Goldsmiths, University of London

Programme of events

FRIDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2010

09:30-10:00 Registration and check-in open.

Location: Ben Pimlott Building, Ground Floor

Morning Session

Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre

10:00-10:10 Introduction and Welcome

Shanu Sadhwani, Bodies and Socio-Histories Co-Chair

10:15-10:30 Kathy M. Milazzo

PhD Department of Dance, Film and Theatre

University of Surrey

Black on the Outside: The Guineo in Spain’s Golden Age

10:30-10:40 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

10:45-11:00 Elisabetta Bertolino

PhD Candidate School of Law

Birkbeck College

Disembodied bodies

11:00-11:10 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

11:15-11:30 Natalia Lebedinskaia

MA Art History Department

Concordia University, Montreal

Body as Spectacle: Morality and Gender in the European

Tradition of Anatomical Displays

11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

11.40-11.50 Short Break

11.50-12.50 Panel Discussion:

With information-technological advances in fields such as medicine, the arts and communication, perceptions of the physicalised body have changed. How has this affected the significance of corporeality in contemporary culture?

Led by Philippa Burt, Goldsmiths, University of London

12.50-13.50 Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre

14:00-14:15 Amanda Roberts

PhD Department of Art and Design

Swansea Metropolitan University

An Examination of the Quantifiable Nature of a Positive Representation of Women

14:15-14:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

14:30-14:45 Aisha Phoenix

PhD Department of Sociology

Goldsmiths, University of London

The Role of Dress in Somali Young Women’s Negotiation of Hierarchies of Belonging

14:45-14:55 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

15:00-15:15 Scheherazaad Cooper

PhD Department of Drama

Goldsmiths, University of London

Performing Codification: Creating Space and ‘Dressing’ the Female Body in Odissi Indian Classical Dance

15:15-15:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

15:30-15:45 Break for coffee, tea and snacks

15:45-16:00 Marianne Burton

PhD English Department

Royal Holloway, University of London

The Betraying Body in Henry James’s The American : How Cultural and Socio-economic History is Displayed by Characters’ Physical Movement in the Early Novels of Henry James

16:00-16:10 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

16:15-16:30 Laura Malacart

PhD Candidate

Slade School of Fine Art, University College London

The News Editor: Rhythm and Pace as Political Critique

16:30-16:40 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

16:45-17:00 Shanu Sadhwani

PhD Department of Drama

Goldsmiths, University of London

Moving Histories: The Diasporic Body in Faultline

17:00-17:10 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

17:15 Closing remarks

Arabella Stanger, Bodies and Socio-Histories Co-Chair

17:30 Refreshments in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union

Dance Performance Double Bill

Followed by question and answer sessions with the artists

18:30-19:30 Nayika - A Woman in Love

Narrated through Odissi Indian Classical Dance

Performed by Scheherazaad Cooper

Studio 3, Goldsmiths, University of London

19:30-19:45 Short Interval

19.45-20.15 HTAP. Studio nº 3

A dance work with concept and direction by Jorge M. Crecis and movement devising by Daura Hernández García.

Studio 3, Goldsmiths, University of London

20:15 Drinks in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union

SATURDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2010

09:45-10:15 Registration and check-in open.

Location: Ben Pimlott Building, Ground Floor

Morning Session

Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre

10:15-10:20 Opening remarks

Arabella Stanger, Bodies and Socio-Histories Co-Chair

10:30-10:45 Svea Vikander

PhD Department of Sociology

Concordia University, Montreal

Life Lines: Rupture and Healing in the Personal and Social Body

10:45-10:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

11:00-11:15 Toby Dyter

PhD Fine Art Practice

University of Creative Arts

Beyond Pity: Revaluing the Disabled Body after Nietzsche

11:15-11:25 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

11:30-11:45 Mattia Marino

PhD School of Languages

University of Salford

Nietzschean Revaluations of Foucauldian Bodies in Baricco’s Silk and Trier’s Manderlay

11:45-11:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

12:00-13:00 Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre

13:00-13:15 Arseli Dokumaci

PhD Department of Film, Theatre and TV Studies

Aberystwyth University

Misfires that Matter: Surveying Socio-Histories through the

Physically Disabled Body

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13:15-13:25 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

13:30-13:45 Anja Bajda

PhD Department of Dramaturgy and Performing Arts

Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television

University of Ljubljana Constrained and Liberated Body: Use and Meanings in Theatrical Space and in the Field of Contemporary Dance in Slovenia

13:45-13:55 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

14:00-14:15 Rebecca McFadden

PhD Department of Drama

Goldsmiths, University of London The Retreat to the Body: Embodying the Past in Post-Communist Czech Theatre

14:15-14:25 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

14:30-14:45 Philippa Burt

PhD Department of Drama

Goldsmiths, University of London

‘The actor imagines with his body’: Michael Chekhov’s

Influence on the British Concept of the Performing Body

14:45-14:55 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

15:00-15:20 Break for coffee, tea and snacks

15:30-15:45 Matt Mahon

PhD School of Politics

Birkbeck, University of London

Embodied Agency and the Production of the Diasporic Political Subject

15:45-15:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

16:00-16:15 Seamus Malone

PhD Candidate

London Consortium

Liquid Dancing in the Space of Flows

16:15-16:25 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

16:30-16:45 Arabella Stanger

PhD Department of Drama

Goldsmiths, University of London

Remodelling the Harmonious Body: The Organisation of Space in the danse d’école and Rudolf Laban’s Choreutics

16:45-16:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

17:00-18:00 Roundtable discussion

"The body has a dual role of being both a vehicle of perception

and an object perceived." Maurice Merleau-Ponty, (1962)

How does the body hold or describe history both in the individual lived experience and through external observation?

Led by Scheherazaad Cooper, Goldsmiths, University of London

18:00-18:10 Closing Remarks

Shanu Sadhwani, Bodies and Socio-Histories Co-Chair

18:15-23:00 Closing night reception for participants and their guests at Café Crema