Program
Wednesday 14 May
18:30 Registration, Entrance Hall, Olympion Cinema, Aristotelous Square
19:30 Opening Ceremony, Olympion Cinema
Plenary: E. Douka-Kabitoglou
‘Body of Delight and Distress: Forms of Incarnation in Greek Poetry’
(‘Soma tis idonis kai tis odinis: Morfes ensarkosis stin elliniki piisi’)
21:30 Opening Reception Electra Palace Hotel
Thursday 15 May
8:30-9:00 Registration, Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
9:00-10:00 Plenary: Zacharias Sinakos Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
‘The Body as Receiver and Giver of Life’ (‘To soma: Dektis kai dotis zois’)
10:00-11:30 Parallel Sessions
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-14:00 Parallel Sessions
14:00-16:00 Lunch
16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions
17:30-18:30 Sue-Ellen Case Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
‘Digital Divas: Gender and Race in Cyberspace’
18:30-19:00 Coffee Break
19:00- 20:30 Parallel Sessions
21:00-22:00 Keith Piper Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
‘Cybernetics and Race Workshop’
Friday 16 May
9:00-10:00 Plenary: Thomas Laqueur Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
‘The Dead and Dying Body from Hume to the Present’
10:00-11:30 Parallel Sessions
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-14:00 Parallel Sessions
14:00-16:00 Lunch
14:30-15:30 HASE MEETING Room 417
16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions
17:30-18:00 Coffee Break
18:00- 19:30 Parallel Sessions
15:00-19:00 Johannes Birringer Workshop Ceremony Hall, Aristotle University
20:30- 21:30 Johannes Birringer Workshop Exhibition:
‘Body – Art and Technological Transformations’
Saturday 17 May
9:00-10:00 Plenary: Sander Gilman Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
‘On Fat Athletes: The Literary and Scientific Imagination’
10:00-11:30 Parallel Sessions
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-14:00 Parallel Sessions
14:00-16:00 Lunch
16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions
17:30-18:30 Plenary: Elizabeth Bronfen Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
‘Chuck Palaniuk and the Violence of Beauty’
18:30-19:00 Coffee Break
19:00- 20:30 Parallel Sessions
21:30 Dinner Party
Sunday 18 May
9:00-10:00 Plenary: Rosi Braidotti Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
‘Metalflesh’
10:00-11:30 Parallel Sessions
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-14:00 Parallel Sessions
14:00 Conference Closing
Program
Wednesday 14 May
18:30 Registration, Entrance Hall, Olympion Cinema, Aristotelous Square
19:30 Opening Ceremony, Olympion Cinema
Plenary: E. Douka-Kabitoglou
‘Body of Delight and Distress: Forms of Incarnation in Greek Poetry’
(‘Soma tis idonis kai tis odinis: Morfes ensarkosis stin elliniki piisi’)
21:30 Opening Reception Electra Palace Hotel
Thursday 15 May
8:30-9:00 Registration, Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
9:00-10:00 Plenary: Zacharias Sinakos
Chair: Antonios Antoniadis Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
‘The Body as Receiver and Giver of Life’ (‘To soma: Dektis kai dotis zois’)
10:00-11:30 Parallel Sessions
1. ‘Naturalizing Desire’
Chair: Thelma Richard Amphitheater, New Wing
Radhika Mohanram Cardiff University
‘Victoria’s Desire: The History of (White) Sexuality’
Waltraud Ernst University of Vienna
‘Laws of Attraction – Bodies in Relation’
Sally Markowitz Willamette University, Salem
‘The Better Sort of Homosexual: Racial Privilege and the Construction of Homosexuality’
2. ‘The Jewish Body’
Chair: Chris Weedon Room 417
Ranen Omer-Sherman University of Miami
‘Assimilation and the Fate of the Jewish Body in Philip Roth’s The Counterlife and Sabbath's Theater’
Cheryl Alexander Malcolm University of Gdansk
‘Subverting Sickness: Singer and the Diseased Jew’
Roy Goldblatt University of Joensuu
‘It’s as Plain as the Nose on Your Face’
3. ‘Cyborgs I’
Chair: Moses Boudourides Amphitheater, Central Library
Theo Vurdubakis University of Manchester
‘The Cabinet of Doctor Antinori: The Body in the Age of Technological Reproduction’
Domna Pastourmatzi Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
‘Futuristic Visions of the Biological Machine’
Sarah Loyd University of Minnesota
‘Paranoid Android: Agency and the Self-critical Cyborg’
4. ‘Violence/Cruelty/Body’
Chair: Zoe Detsi-Diamanti Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
Elizabeth Sakellaridou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
‘Millennial Artaud: (Re)Thinking Cruelty and (Re)Presentation’
Claudine Armand Université Nancy II
‘The Body in Situ, the Body in Crisis: From the Happenings of Allan Kaprow to the Vienna Actionists’
Heiner Zimmermann University of Heidelberg
‘The Ambiguous Body in Contemporary British Theatre’
5. ‘Verbalizing Pain and Decay’
Chair: Marianthi Makri-Tsilipakou Room 112
Costas Canakis University of the Aegean, Mytilene
‘Metaphors of a Body Meant to Die’
Apostolos Poulios Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
‘The Flesh Made Text or the Text Made Flesh? The Interactional Construction of Old Age and Frailty Through Talk’
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
(Thursday 15 May)
12:00-14:00 Parallel Sessions
6. ‘From Olympic Bodies to Modern Corpuses’
Chair: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou Amphitheater, Central Library
Elizabeth Harvey University of Toronto
‘Placental Poetics: Incorporation and Loss in John Donne and Luce Irigaray’
Manuel Almagro University of Seville
Carolina Sánchez-Palencia University of Seville
‘ “She has translated me into her own book”: From Body to Corpus and Back’
Bryan E. Burns University of Southern California
‘Desire and the Olympic Ideal: The Representation of Ancient and Athletic Bodies’
Petr Roubal Central European University, Budapest
‘Body Writing: Olympics, May Day Parades, Nuremberg Rallies’
7. ‘Staging Technology’
Chair: Savas Patsalidis Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
Tatiani Rapatzikou University of East Anglia, Norwich
‘Mechanical Choreographies of an “Evolutionary Alchemist”: Stelarc’s Techno Body and Multimedia Performace’
Edwina Bartlem University of Melbourne
‘Emergence: New Bodies in Digital and Hybrid Media Art’
Petra Kuppers Bryant College
‘Disability and Performance: Technologies of Otherness’
Rhona Justice-Malloy (Associate Professor, Director of Theatre) Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
‘Anatomy Lessons and Artificial Intelligence: Dionysus and Apollo in Film and Medicine’
8. ‘Film I: Cyber Bodies’
Chair: Nicola Rehling Room 417
Felicity Colman University of Melbourne
‘Iwakra Lain, Buffy Summers, and the Birth of the Storm Troopers: Symbolic Images of Bodies in a Hyper-spatiotemporal Agency’
David Roche University of Provence, Aix-Marseille I
‘David Cronenberg’s Making the Word Be Flesh’
Steve Watts University of Cambridge
‘Inside Out: Bodies Revealed, Ballard’s Crash and Cronenberg’s Crash’
9. ‘Virtual Bodies’
Chair: Ulf Cronquist Amphitheater, New Wing
K. J. Peters Loyola Marymount University
‘Confessing Computers and Rhetorical Bodies’
Eleni Nikolaki Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
‘The Formation of Sexual Identity in Literature and the Network’
Elspeth Graham Liverpool John Moores University
‘Sick Bodies and Cyberbodies: Autopathographical Narratives on the Internet’
10. ‘Cartesianism Subverted’
Chair: Christina Dokou Room 112
Denise Almeida Silva Universidade Regional Integrada, Santo Angelo, Rio Grande do Sul
‘Cartesianism Revisited: The Logic of the Body in J. M. Coetzee’s Fiction’
Magdalena M. Romanska Cornell University
‘Foucault: Death and the Subject’
Gulshan Taneja R.L.A. College, University of New Delhi
‘Joyce and Keats and the New Technologies: The Invasion of the Body Snatchers’
14:00-16:00 Lunch
(Thursday 15 May)
16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions
11. ‘Grotesque Bodies’
Chair: Roulis Heliotis Amphitheater, New Wing
Paulina Palmer The University of Warwick, Coventry
‘Foreign Bodies: The Grotesque Body in the Fiction of Jeanette Winterson’
María Jesús Hernáez Lerena University of La Rioja
‘An Approach to the Epistemology of the Short Story Through the Grotesque Body: Barbara Gowdy’s We So Seldom Look on Love’
H. Ara Merjian, University of California, Berkeley
‘Body Language: F.T. Marinetti’s Mafarka le Futuriste and the Futurist Corporeal Imaginary’
12. ‘Embodying the Nation I’
Chair: Yiorgos Kalogeras, Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
Boris Vejdovsky Lausanne University
‘ “Strange Fruit”: Race, Violence, and the Spirit of the Pastoral in America Now and Then’
Maria Koundoura Emerson College
‘Bodies Abused: Negotiating Citizenship in Patriotic Times’
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli Emerson College, Cambridge
‘Mediated Cannibalism: Consuming the Image of Death’
13. ‘Bodies in Parts’
Chair: Sabine Coelsch-Foisner Room 417
Alina Lettner University of Kassel
‘The Dew-Drop and the Sun: Corporeal Abstraction, Artistic Creation, and Cosmological Continuity’
Laura L. Behling Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
‘Sum/Some of Its Parts: Theorizing the Artificiality of the Historical and Modern Body’
Marcin Brocki University of Wroclaw
‘Semantics of Body Parts’
14. ‘Bodies in Comics’
Chair: Efterpi Mitsi Amphitheater, Central Library
Sylvia Mittler University of Toronto at Scarborough
‘Subversive Bodies, Pastiche and Carnivalesque Historiography: The Transgressive Iconography of Nikos Tsiforos’
Christina Dokou The National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
‘Fantastic 4-Body-ings: Ideal Grotesqueness in Comic-Book Culture’
Lia Yoka (Contract Lecturer, Dept. of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology) University of Thessaly, Volos
‘The Body as Lyrical Commodity in Max Anderssen’s “Pixy”’
15. ‘Rockin’ the Body’
Chair: Nikos Kontos Room 112
Michel Delville University of Liège
‘Frank Zappa’s Peristaltic Poetics: Exploring the Maximalist Body’
Andrew Norris University of Liège
‘Let’s Take a Breather: Captain Beefheart Versus the “moma heartbeat” of Rock’n’Roll’
Eriks Uskalis University of Liège
‘Punk and the Body: Space, Movement, Hysteria’
17:30-18:30 Plenary: Sue-Ellen Case
Chair: Elizabeth Sakellaridou Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
‘Digital Divas: Gender and Race in Cyberspace’
18:30-19:00 Coffee Break
(Thursday 15 May)
19:00- 20:30 Parallel Sessions
16. ‘Embodying Disease’
Chair: Christina Papadimitriou Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
Cindy Linden Syracuse University
‘Chronic Pain Patients as Disease: The Symbolic Creation of a US American Evil’
Christina Papadimitriou American College of Thessaloniki
‘Reshaping the Injured Body: Rehabilitation and Physical Disability’
Patricia McKeever University of Toronto
‘Recalcitrant Bodies/Recombinant Selves: Trajectories of Disability and Narratives of Growth in Children who Have Degenerative Diseases’
17. ‘Queer Bodies’
Chair: Sabine Coelsch-Foisner Amphitheater, Central Library
Anna Wilson University of Birmingham
‘National Uses for Queer Bodies’
Pia Livia Hekanaho University of Helsinki
‘Desired, Loved, Lost: The Male Body in Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoires d'Hadrien’
Lasse Kekki Juslenia University of Turku
‘“You are fabulous creatures, each and every one”: The Queer Body in Tony Kushner’s Play Angels in America’
18. ‘The Body Autobiographical’
Chair: Effie Botonaki Amphitheater, New Wing
Isabel Durán Universidad Complutense, Madrid
‘No More Taboos: Self-written Bodies in American Autobiography’
Keith Johnson Boston University
‘The Body in Anguish, The Body in Language: Virginia Woolf and Corporeality’
Leena Kurvet-Käosaar University of Tartu
‘Claiming and Disclaiming a Body in the Early Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Aino Callas and Anaïs Nin’
19. ‘Spatial Dimensions’
Chair: Effie Yiannopoulou Room 417
Ludmilla Kostova University of Veliko Turnovo
‘Vigorous Femininity: Englishness, Gender and Mobility in Writing by Victorian Women Travellers to the Balkans’
Betty Nigianni University of East London
‘Corpo-reality and the Metropolis: Dissolving the Body in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy’
Stefanie Rinke Humboldt-University, Berlin
‘Textual Body as the Body of Enjoyment: Novels by Irmgard Keun and her Narrative Incorporation of Modern Technical Media’
20. ‘Body Parts’
Chair: Fotini Apostolou Room 112
Ronald Huebert Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
‘The Female Breast in Reformation Culture’
Melisse Lafrance University of Oxford
‘In the Skin of the Moment: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Bodily Surface’
Elena Tinjala University of Craiova
‘How To Think with Hands: Between Semiotics and Fleshy Materiality’
21:00-22:00 Keith Piper
‘Cybernetics and Race Workshop’
Chair: Effie Yiannopoulou Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
Friday 16 May
9:00-10:00 Plenary: Thomas Laqueur
Chair: Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
‘The Dead and Dying Body from Hume to the Present’
10:00-11:30 Parallel Sessions
21. ‘Posthuman Bodies I’
Chair: Domna Pastourmatzi Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
Moses Boudourides University of Patras
‘Bodies in Cyberculture All the Way from Inscription to Hybridization’
Ulf Cronquist Gothenburg University
‘The Posthumanist Body in the Flesh: Hypertext, Simulation and Prosthetics’
Gregory Kable The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
‘HAL Now: Revisiting Man and Machine After 2001’
22. ‘Film II: Flesh in Film’
Chair: Aneta Karayiannidou Room 417
Patricia MacCormack Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge
‘Cinesexuality: Film, Fold, Flesh’
Michalis Kokonis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
‘The Word Made Flesh II: 26 Facts about Flesh and Ink, or Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book’
Doxa Dafni-Metaxa Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
‘The Body in Coma: Pedro Almodovar’s Hable con Ella’
23. ‘Female Bodies and Race’
Chair: Rhadika Mohanram Amphitheater, New Wing
Jennifer Michaels Grinnell College, Iowa
‘From Rejection to Affirmation of Their Bodies: The Case of Afro-German Women Writers’
Thelma Richard Arizona State University, Tempe
‘Reflections of the Female Body in Post-Colonial Mirrors: Coming of Age Stories by South African and United States Women Writers’
Harminder Dosanjh Kaur University of Hull
‘The Scalpel and the Easel: Producing the Raced Body in Gynaecological and Obstetric Art’
24. ‘Postmodern Incarnations’
Chair: William New Amphitheater, Central Library
Greta Olson Bonn University
‘The In-your-faceness of Bodies in American Literature and Culture Now’
Alkeline van Lenning Tilburg University
Pieter Pekelharing University of Amsterdam
‘An Impossibly Short History of the Body’
Bernd Klähn University of Bochum
‘Feeding the (Post-)Modern Body: Fast Food, Human Body and Outer World as Abstract Schemes’
25. ‘Narrative / Nations / Bodies’
Chair: Paulina Palmer Room 112
John Hulsman Rider University, Lawrenceville
‘Mimicry and Resistance in Edwidge Danticat’s Discourse of the Body’
Brigitte Scheer-Schäzler University of Innsbruck
‘What to Make of a Diminished Thing: Floyd Skloot’s Body of Writing’
Louise Johnson University of Sheffield
‘Ambivalence and the Athletic Body: Negotiating the Modern in Nineteen Thirties’ Catalonia’
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
(Friday 16 May)
12:00-14:00 Parallel Sessions
26. ‘The Performing Body’
Chair: Michalis Kokonis Ceremony Hall, School of Philosophy
Bettina Brandl-Risi Basel University
‘Attraction and Repulsion: The Transformation of the (Im)Perfect Body in the Performances of Emma Hamilton and the Sociètas Raffaello Sanzio’
Vassilis Amanatidis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
‘The Body of Blood: Dimitris Papaioannou’s Edafos Dance Company’
Sophie Levy University of Toronto
‘ “And then her Greek / words came”: (Making) Cassandra our Contemporary’
Reynold Humphries Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III