The Body on Display, from Renaissance to Enlightenment

The Body on Display, from Renaissance to Enlightenment

An early-career symposium

6-7 July 2010

St Chad's College, Durham University

Keynote speaker: Dr. Peter Mitchell (University of Wales)

Provisional Programme

Monday 5 July

                    Informal meal and drinks

Tuesday 6 July

9.00

Registration and coffee

9.30

Opening comments

Dr. Lutz Sauerteig (Chair, SSHM)

Prof. Holger Maehle (Director, Centre for the History of Medicine and
Disease, Durham University)

9.45-11.00

Deviant Bodies

Filips Defoort (Leuven)

Jacob Boehme's (1575-1624) Depiction of Man's Hideous and Monstrous
Animal-Like Body

Claire Bowditch (Loughborough)

'Lies, Dreams, and Fond Fantasies': Corporeality,

Desire, and the Early-Modern Hermaphrodite

Harriet Plafreyman (Warwick)

Faces of Disease: Images and the Display of Knowledge about Venereal
Disease in the Late Eighteenth Century

Chair: James Russell

11.00

Coffee

11.20-13.00

Dead Bodies

Elena Taddia (independent scholar)

Infant Corpses Exposed: Experimentations on Children's Bodies in
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Europe

Armelle Sabatier (Paris, II)

Flesh v. Bones in Jacobean Drama: Displaying Human Corporeality in
Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy

David Packwood (Warwick)

Specular Visuality and Artistic Self-Reflexivity in Pietro de Cortona's
Drawings of the Tabulae Anatomicae of 1619

Richelle Munkhoff (Colorado)

Bodies into Text: Poor Women and the Reading of Corpses in Early Modern
London

Chair: Sebastian Pranghofer

13.00

Lunch (provided)

14.00-15.15

The Body Illustrated

Swarup Swaminathan (Harvard)

Anatomy, Art, and Aristotle: A Formal and Philosophical System of
Reference in the Title Page of Vesalius' De Humana Corporis Fabrica

Sebastian Pranghofer (Durham)

Nature, Beauty and Truth: Early Modern Anatomical Illustrations of the
Lymphatic System

Marieke Hendriksen (Leiden)

The Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Anatomy:

the Anatomical Illustrations of Petrus Camper (1722-1789) and the Hunter
brothers (1718-1793)

David Martin (Goldsmiths)

The Sacred Cut: Exploring the Iconography of Renaissance Anatomical Woodcuts

Chair: Dr. Matthew D. Eddy

15.15-16.30

Bodily Surfaces

George Newberry (Sheffield)

The Senses and Sensitivity as Expressions of 'Racial' Difference in
Eighteenth-Century Science and Anatomy

Lindsey Fitzharris (UCL)

'Beauty is only Skin-Deep': Fears Concerning Deformity and the Rising
Importance of Surgeons in Restoration London

Antoine Roullet (Paris IV)

Corporal Mortification as Iconoclasm

Chair: Dr. Stefano Cracolici

16.30

Coffee

17.15

Public Lecture, Dr. Peter Mitchell: "Shall I the Hearts un-equall sides
explain...? Or, shall I rip the Stomachs hollowness...?" Representation
and the literary associations of anatomy in the early seventeenth century.

19.70

Conference Dinner, Oldfields Restaurant

Wednesday 7 July

9.15

Coffee

9.30-10.45

Masculinity on Display

Darren Wagner (York)

Hung, Dried, and Blown-Up: Male Genitalia in Late Seventeenth- and
Early-Eighteenth-Century Anatomy and Physiology

Maya Corry (Oxford)

Ambiguously Gendered Bodies: Male Beauty and Self-Fashioning in Italian
Renaissance Art and Thought

Natalie Awais-Dean (Queen Mary's)

Communicating Ideals: The Male Body Adorned in the Early Modern Period

Chair: Dr. Cathy McClive (Durham)

10.45

Coffee

11.05-12.45

The Beautiful Body

Tom Blaen (Exeter)

'Not used to be worn as a jewel': Precious Stones - Ornament or Medicine?

Emma Markiewicz (National Archives)

Hair: The Appearance of Beauty and Well Being in Eighteenth-Century England

Elizabeth Upper (Cambridge)

Why is she Beautiful? Representations of Bodies and Garments in Albrecht
Altdorfer's Bautiful Virgin of Regensburg (ca. 1519/20)

Chair: Sara Read

12.45

Lunch (provided) and visit to the rare books exhibition (Palace Green
Library)

14.00-15.15

Public Bodies, Bodies and the Public

Vincent Van Roy (Antwerp)

Medical Sensation as an Advance in 'Public' Science? Representations of
Body Pathologies in Medical Illustrations, Preparations and
'rariteytenkabinetten' (Cabinets of Strange Things) During the Early
Modern Time (1500 - 1800)

Patrick Schmidt (Cambridge)

Advertising 'Disability': Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Freakshows
and their Promotion in Contemporary Printed Media

Emily O'Brien (Trinity)

The Murdered Body on Display: Exposing the Truth in Early Modern Murder
Pamphlets and Plays

Chair: Prof. Richard Maber

15.15

Coffee

15.35

Remarks and reflections: Dr. Peter Mitchell

15.50-16.40

Roundtable

16.40

Closing comments

With an exhibition of rare printed books (Palace Green Library, Durham
University)

For more information and registration forms, please see the website
www.bodyondisplay.org.uk <http://www.bodyondisplay.org.uk/>  or email
body.ondisplay@durham.ac.uk

An interdisciplinary early-career symposium kindly supported by the
Society for the Social History of Medicine, the Royal Historical Society,
the Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies at Durham University, and
Durham University Graduate School