FIRST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF CORPUS
Posted in Body news, Eu on Decembrie 23rd, 2009 by alex – 5 CommentsFIRST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF CORPUS
FIRST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF CORPUS
THEBEAUTIFUL AND THE UGLY: BODY REPRESENTATIONS
Lisbon, January 7th-8th 2010
CORPUS
INTERNATIONAL GROUP FOR THE CULTURAL STUDIES OF THE BODY
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INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS DE LITERATURA TRADICIONAL
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS E HUMANAS
UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7th
INTRODUCTION SESSION, 9 h 00 – 9 h 30
Reception of participants by the coordinators
Inês de Ornellas e Castro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) &FrédéricDuhart (EHESS, France): The Beautiful and the Ugly: A Brief Introduction.
CANONS OF BEAUTY, DEFINITIONS OF UGLINESS (1), 9 h30 – 11 h30
Marina Cavicchioli (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil):The Beauty and the Beast in the Roman Representations: Reviewing the Myth.
Huang Chun (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan):Body and Beauty in the Era of Science and Consumerism Marxist, Phenomenological, or Post-modern?
MillyHeyd (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): Body and Skin Questioning Beauty/Ugliness in Viennese Art (Fin-de-Siècle and Post 1945).
Sixto J. Castro (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain): Naturalization of Beauty and Ugliness. The Building of a New Canon.
Coffee Break
CANONS OF BEAUTY, DEFINITIONS OF UGLINESS (2), 12 h 00 – 13 h30
Mario Tanga (Science historian, Arezzo, Italy): Transparency as Beauty: Della Porta’sPhysiognomics, a Fundamental Step in the History of Body Image.
MoheyMofawy (Northern Michigan University, USA): A Clash of Norms: When Biological Needs and Cultural Perception of Attractiveness Collide.
MeilingChien(National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan): Beautiful Women Will Not Marry Outside Our Village”: Hmub Views on Beauty, Body, and the Value of Affinity.
Lynn Sally (Metropolitan College of New York, USA):It is the Ugly that is So Beautiful’: Performing the Monster/Beauty Continuum in American Neo-Burlesque.
Lunch time
AESTHETICS OF THE BODY (POSTER SESSION), 15 h 00-16 h 00
Stéphanie Bouguet (Université de Bordeaux 3, France): Le sublime à l’oeuvre dans la peinture de Jenny Saville.
JulienAcquatella (EHESS/ Centre Marc Bloch, France/Germany): The Aesthetic Corruption as the Beginnings of an Anthropological Revolution. The Case of the Two German Dictatorships
María Eugenia García Sottile (Universidad Católica de Valencia/ U. Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain): Beauty’sConcaveMirror.
Erika Thomas (Université de Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France): “La vérité pourrais-tu la supporter?” Abre los ojos[Open Your Eyes] d’Alejandro Amenábar (1997).
Zakia Maaouia (Université de Paris I Sorbonne, France): Les artistes se” monstrent”.Politics of Body in Post-human Art.
Caroline Giacomoni, Hélène Hoarau, Elisa Venturini&MaïderMelin(EHESS/Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, France): The Transformed Body: Gynaecological Cancer Impact on Women (Bordeaux, France).
RiccardoMelito (Anthropologist, Roma, Italy): Body as a Masterpiece and Battlefield.
REPULSIONS, SEDUCTIONS (1), 16 h 00-17 h 45
Palmira Fontes da Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal):The Beauty of Monsters.
Ana María Palacio Sánchez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain):Two Renaissance Women: The Beautiful Goddess and The Obnoxious Witch.
Patrícia Pascoal (Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal): Body image and sexual functioning. Natália Maria Lopes Nunes (IELT- Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal): Negation of Woman Beauty and Attractiveness. The Legend of Saint Onofrio (The Women “turned” into a Man).
Dorothée Guilhem(CNRS / UMR 6578 Unité d’Anthropologie Bioculturelle, France)& Meryem Sellami (Université Marc Bloch, France): Body Images among Teenagers in France.
Coffee Break
REPULSIONS, SEDUCTIONS (2), 18 h 00-19 h 30
Immanuel Mifsud (University of Malta): Fat and Dark is Beautiful /is Ugly: a History of the Maltese Body through Twentieth Century Poetry.
AgatheBrun (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France): A veil of beauty before the gates of hell: appearances put to the test in Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray.
DenizAktanKucuk (BahçesehirÜniversitesi, Turkey) &GülşahTaşkın (Koç University, Turkey): The Beautiful and the Ugly: Notes on the Classical and Modern Turkish Literature.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8th
PRODUCING BEAUTY: ARTEFACTS AND BODY TRANSFORMATIONS (1), 9 h 30-10 h 50
Débora Krischke Leitão (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil) &Marie Eunice Maciel (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil): Manipulating Bodies and Pixels. Thoughts about the Brazilian Beauty.
Salomé Deboos (Centre d’études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, France): “Demotenesokpo ?” Beautiful and Awful in Zanskar Valley.
Jean M. Borgatti (Clark University, USA):The Beautiful and the Ugly as Signifiers of Morality and Power in Okpella (Nigeria) Masking Traditions.
F. Xavier Medina Lucques (UniversitatOberta de Catalunya, Spain) & David Fornons (Departamentd’Educació, Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain):Inside and Outside the Prison: Male Bodies, Tattoos and identities.
Coffee Break
PRODUCING BEAUTY: ARTEFACTS AND BODY TRANSFORMATIONS (2), 11 h 30-13 h 00
Francis Moulinat (Ateliers Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, France): The Fig Leaf or the Nether-world of the Body.
Carlos Augusto Ribeiro (IELT -Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal): About the Body as Robe: Ethereal Bodies and Remains of Meat.
KoenBeumer (Adviesraadvoor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid, Netherlands):The Beauty and the Beast: Scars According to the Scarification Subculture and the Medical World.
Lunch time
BEAUTY IN SOCIETY (POSTER SESSION), 14 h 30-15 h 40
Gabriela-Mariana Luca (Universitatea de MedicinaşiFarmacie din Timişoara, Romania): Jesus under the Stars. Euphoria and Beatitude of the Disabled Body.
Hussein Al Othman (Sharjah University, United Arab Emirates): Attitudes of Emirati Youth toward Transformed Body. An Empirical Study.
VerónicaVillasebil Loma (UNED, Spain): The “Corporeization” of the Firm.
Jean-Charles Jobart(Université de Toulouse 1, France): Beauty and Ugliness in Law.
CélineDucant (Université de Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines, France): The Body of the Politician. Does image have to charm before the ideas convince?
Marion Haza (Université de Poitiers, France): Modification of the Body Image among the Teenagers after a Tattoo or a Piercing: What are the Aesthetic Stakes?
MaríaPilarAsensioBazán (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain): Young People’s Food Habits and Practices in Zaragoza.
Virginia Romero Plana (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain): The beautiful and the ugly: intermingled with Feelings and Aesthetic.
BEAUTY IN ACTION, BEAUTY OF THE ACTION (1), 15 h 40-17 h 20
Shuenn-Der Yu (Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology, Taiwan): The Elegant Body in Taiwanese Tea Ceremony.
Carlos Nogueira (IELT- Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal): Body Images in the Portuguese Erotic and Satirical Poetry of the Eighteenth Century.
Rui Carlos Fonseca (CEC- Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal): Muscles and Rags: Homeric Examples of Subverted Beauty.
PiaPandelakis (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France): When the Good Meets the Ugly: The Relationship between Heroes & Nerds in Contemporary American Cinema
Coffee Break
BEAUTY IN ACTION, BEAUTY OF THE ACTION (2), 17 h 40-19 h 30
BarışKaraağaç& Elizabeth Dauphinee (York University, Canada): Wrestling with Oil: Sociosexual Representations of Turkish Masculinity and the Paradox of Heteronormativity in the Practice of YağlıGüreş.
María José GarcíaSoler (Universidad del País vasco, Spain): Beauty and Ugliness in the Greek Athlete Body.
Sylvain Ferez (Université de Montpellier 1, France): The Sportswoman’s body as a challenge… at the risk of becoming a freak.
AlexandruDincovici (ŞcoalaNaţională de StudiiPoliticeşi Administrative, Romania): A Beautiful but Damaged Body. What the muscles cover up.
Hubert Cahuzac (Université de Bordeaux 3, France): Set of Types andCategories of the Beautiful: the Transformation of the Ordinary Body in Rugby Culture.
Closure and Final words
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Location : Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Univ. Nova de Lisboa
Edifício das Unidades de Investigação – sala multiusos (4th floor)
Av de Berna, nº26, Lisboa
Contacts:
Frédéric Duhart
frederic.duhart@wanadoo.fr
0033 6 16 12 97 32
http://corpus.comlu.com
Inês de Ornellas e Castro iorncastro@netcabo.pt
00351 965 739 179
