FOREIGN BODY CONCEPTIONS & REPRESENTATIONS

5 avril 2010

FOREIGN BODY CONCEPTIONS & REPRESENTATIONS

MONDAY, MAY 17th
INTRODUCTION SESSION, 10 h 30 – 11 h 00
Reception of participants by the coordinators
• Roman Ignatiev (Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology Sciences at the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Russia) & Frédéric Duhart (EHESS, France)
Foreign Bodies: A Brief Introduction
FOREIGN BODY CONCEPTIONS & REPRESENTATIONS, 11 h 00 – 13 h 30
• Peter Kaiser (University of Bremen, Germany)
From Self-mortification to Body-modification
• Begonya Sáez Tajafuerce (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
Foreign Bodies and Violence
• Ivan Grinko (Moscow State University, Russia)
Somatic Modifications in Russian and Soviet Ethnological Literature
Break
• Mario Tanga (Science historian, Arezzo, Italy)
Inclusive Body: How Brain, Mind and Culture Extend Body Boundaries beyond Skin.
• Nataliya Anatolievna Polskaya (Saratov State University, Russia)
Self-injury as Demarcation of Body Boundaries
• Vadim B. Savelev (Omsk State University, Russia)
The Matter Without Memory: What Is the Problem of the "Ideal Body"?
Lunch time
FOREIGN BODIES, MODIFIED BODIES, 15 h 30 – 18 h 00
• Inês de Ornellas e Castro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Appearance’s Metamorphoses in the Roman World
• Valentina Burkova & Marina Butovskaya (Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology Sciences
at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Body Modifications in the Life Circle Rites among Datoga Pastoralists of Tanzania
• Giovanni Vassallo (Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy)
The Use of Skin Whitening Products among African People: Research in Italy and the Congo
• Jean-Baptiste Eczet (EHESS, France)
The Beautiful Ideas of the Disfigured: About the Mursi Lip-plate (Southern Ethiopia)
• Pauline Roux (University of Lyon 2, France)
Modifying and Completing the Body: Medical and Aesthetic Surgery Representations in Breast
Cancer
• Georgiy Vadimovich Zharkov (Moscow psychological-social Institute, Murom, Russia)
Invading in Own Body: Motivation of Risking Body Modification in Russian Youth Population
TUESDAY, MAY 18th
FOREIGN BODIES, ETHICS & POLITICS, 11 h 00 – 13 h 30
• Nadya Nartova (Centre for Independent Social Research, Russia)
Surrogate Motherhood: Development/Adoption, Control and Alienation of "Foreign" Bodies
• Alexander Edmonds (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Enhancement, Aesthetics, and Health
• Darya Tereshina (European University at Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
On the Boundary between the Bodily and the Social: Alternative Medicine and/or Alternative
Community?
• Julien Acquatella (EHESS/ Centre Marc Bloch, France / Germany)
State-planified Doping in the German Democratic Republic and the Generation of the New Socialist
Human
• Vasiliy Bushnev (Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia)
The Collective Machine and the Living Machines: The Relationship between Worker and Machine in
the Texts of the Ideologists of the Movement for the Scientific Organization of Labor in the Soviet
Russia of 1920's-1930's
• Yana Krupets (Samara State University, Russia)
Between "Own" and "Foreign" Bodies: the Practices of Ownership, Selling, and Buying
Lunch time
FOREIGN BODIES AND CREATION, 15h 30 – 18 h 00
• Carlos Augusto Ribeiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Around the Body, Inside and Outside the Skin. Art & Body
• Roman Ignatiev (Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology Sciences at the RAS, Russia)
The Human Image in Buñuel's Las Hurdes (Land without bread)
• Mike C. Vienneau (University of Quebec / University of Montreal, Canada)
Film Mutants, Transformed Characters and Duplicated Spectators. When the Screen Manipulates and
Redefines Social Bodies
• Vera Senkina (Journalist, Moscow, Russia)
"Body" in the Performances of Contemporary Theatre: "One’s own" and "Alien"
• Valeria V. Gavrylenko (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine)
Homage to Exquisite Pain: Skinlessness after Homer.
• Nikolay Gordiychuk (Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia)
Heart and Skin: Body and Emotions in Early Tamil Poetry
CONCLUSIVE SESSION, 18 h 00 – 18 h 30
General Debate & Final Words
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LOCATION
Zal zazedaniy, 18 etazh, Zdanie akademii nauk, Leninskiy prospekt 32a / Lecture room, 18th
floor, Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, 32a
Leninski prospekt, Moscow 119991.
Metro: Leninskiy prospekt
The event is open to interested researchers, students, journalists, etc. Participation is free, but an
advance registration is mandatory to enter the Academy building.
CONTACTS
Frédéric Duhart
frederic.duhart@wanadoo.fr