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Corporealities

Affect, body politics and media

Info about event

Time

Friday 25 August 2017,  at 09:00 - 16:00

Location

Conference centre, Fredrik Nielsens Vej 4, building 1421, room M2

Organizer

Body Politics

Sign up to participate here: cjerne@cc.au.dk

9.00-9.15. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
/ Associate Professor Britta Timm Knudsen, AU

9.15-10.45. SESSION 1: SOCIAL MEDIA BODIES (chair: C. Stage, AU) 
/ Professor Susanna Paasonen, University of Turku: “Bodies of revulsion and desire: penises across social media”
/ PhD student Ane Kathrine Lolholm Gammelby, AU: “Aren't these just desperate self-helpers trusting unreliable health-information online?”

10.45-11.00. COFFEE BREAK

11.00-13.15. SESSION 2: EMBODIED SUBJECTS (chair: B. Knudsen, AU)
/ Professor Verner Møller, AU: “Are our bodies ourselves?”
/ PhD student Lea Muldtofte, AU: “The grace of my perfect skeleton”
/ PhD Jakob Rosendal, AU: “Serial girl: on the repetition compulsion of an art historical motif”

13.15-14.15. LUNCH

14.15-15.45. SESSION 3: BODIES OF CONFLICT (chair: C. Kølvraa, AU)
/ Professor Kevin McDonald, Middlesex University: “Rethinking radicalisation: towards a sociology of networked affect, imagination and subjectivity”
/ Associate Professor Solveig Gade, AU: “War and affect: commemorating the war in Afghanistan at The Danish Royal Theatre”

15.45: MOVING ON ARTS summer party activitivies. Remember to sign up for them!

The annual Cultural Transformations seminar is organized by the research unit on Body Politics