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Corpses and Destrcution

12 Septembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

Les cadavres et leur destruction

Premier workshop annuel du programme « Corpses of mass violence »

Corpses and Destrcution

First Annual Workshop of the Research Programme "Corpses of mass violence"

Publié le mercredi 05 septembre 2012 par Elsa Zotian

Résumé

This workshop addresses the first phase of the research programme “Corpses of mass violence and genocide”. In the context of mass violence and genocide, death is not the end of the executors’ work. After the abuses, the victims’ corpses are treated and manipulated in very specific ways, amounting in some cases to true social engineering; this phase is remarkably little documented in the existing research. This conference aims therefore to explore this phase of destruction, across a range of extreme situations including mass cremations, concealment, profanation, displacement or re-burials. Focused on the 20th century, the conference will seek to reevaluate the motivations, the ideological frameworks and the technical processes at work in the destruction of corpses, taking a comparative and instrumental perspective which should open to new research in mass violence and genocide studies.

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Presentation
Une traduction simultanée sera assurée de/vers le trançais et l'anglais - translation will be provided from/to english and french

This workshop addresses the first phase of the research programme “Corpses of mass violence and genocide”. In the context of mass violence and genocide, death is not the end of the executors’ work. After the abuses, the victims’ corpses are treated and manipulated in very specific ways, amounting in some cases to true social engineering; this phase is remarkably little documented in the existing research. This conference aims therefore to explore this phase of destruction, across a range of extreme situations including mass cremations, concealment, profanation, displacement or re-burials. Focused on the 20th century, the conference will seek to reevaluate the motivations, the ideological frameworks and the technical processes at work in the destruction of corpses, taking a comparative and instrumental perspective which should open to new research in mass violence and genocide studies.

Programm

12th September 2012

  • 14h00-15h30 - introductory address by Elisabeth Anstett (CNRS, France) & Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester, GB)
  • Key note speech: Yehonathan Alsheh (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
16h00-17h30 - Ideologies

Chair : Joost Fontein (The University of Edinburgh, GB)

  • Remi Korman (EHESS, France)
  • Michael Mc Connel (The University of Tennessee, USA)

13th September 2012

9h00-10h30 - Criminology of mass violence

Chair : Caroline Fournet (Gröningen University, Netherland)

  • Jon Shute (University of Manchester, GB)
  • Kjell Anderson (The Hague Institute for Global Justice, Netherland)
11h00-12h30 - Secondary mass grave

Chair : Michel Signoli (CNRS-Aix Marseille Université, France)

  • José Lopez Mazz (Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay)
  • Sari Wastell (Goldsmith College, GB) & Admir Jugo (International Commission for Missing Persons, Bosnia).
14h00-15h30 - Mass cremation

Chair : Robert Jan Van Pelt (University of Waterloo, Canada)

  • Elena Zhemkova (Memorial, Russia)
  • Elissa Mailänder (Siences Po Paris, France)
16h30-18h30 - Projection & round table

Organized in collaboration with the CNRS eschare-unit ADES (Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Éthique & Santé).

Projection of «Las Manos en la Tierra», 52’ documentary film (2010) by Virginia Martínez devoted to the role of the forensic anthropologists in Uruguay in the search for the desaparecidos of military dictatorship (1973-85).

Projection followed by a round table with:

  • José Lopez-Mazz (Universidad de Mondevideo, Uruguay)
  • Michel Signoli (CNRS, France)
  • Sévane Garibian (Université de Genève, Suisse)
  • Elisabeth Anstett (CNRS, France)
  • Francisco Etxeberria (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain - to be confirmed)

14th September 2012

9h00-10h30 - Governing the dead

Chair: Finn Stepputat (DIIS, Denmark)

  • Chowra Makaremi (CNRS, France)
  • Max Bergholz (University of Concordia, Canada)
11h00-12h30 - Disposal

Chair : Marcia Esparza (John Jay College of Criminal Justice - CUNY, USA)

  • Therkel Straede (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
  • Nicky Rousseau (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
14h00-16h00 - Concealment

Chair : Sévane Garibian (Université de Genève, Switzerland)

  • Mario Ranalletti & Esteban Pontoriero (UNTREF, Argentina)
  • Raymond Kevorkian (Université Paris-VIII-Saint-Denis, France)
  • Adrian Cioflanca (Romanian Academy, Romania)

16h30-17h30 - Conclusion by Robert Jan Van Pelt (University of Waterloo, Canada).

 

Organisers
  • Elisabeth Anstett (CNRS, France) and
  • Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
For further informations : info@corpsesofmassviolence.eu

Mots-clés
  • génocide, violences de masse, cadavres
Fichiers attachés
Lieu
  • Paris (75006) (105 boulevard Raspail (EHESS))
Dates
  • mercredi 12 septembre 2012
  • jeudi 13 septembre 2012
  • vendredi 14 septembre 2012
Contact
  • Elisabeth Anstett
    courriel : Elisabeth [point] anstett (at) ehess [point] fr
    EHESS - IRIS
    190 Avenue de France
    75013 Paris
  • Jean-Marc Dreyfus
    courriel : Jean-Marc [point] Dreyfus (at) manchester.ac [point] uk
    Religions and Theology
    School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
    Alexander Building, WG20B
    M13 9PL The University of Manchester
    GB
Url de référence
Source de l'information
  • Elisabeth Anstett
    courriel : elisabeth [point] anstett (at) ehess [point] fr

Pour citer cette annonce

« Les cadavres et leur destruction », Colloque, Calenda, publié le mercredi 05 septembre 2012, http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle25032.html

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Music & Body

11 Septembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

 

2. Music Body Scrap

www.brown.edu/Project/Music/colloquium.html - Traduire cette page

The Music and the Body series is designed to inform contemporary and historical music-related questions concerning ritual and dance; display and gesture;

 

The Music and the Body series is designed to inform contemporary and historical music-related questions concerning ritual and dance; display and gesture; gender and sexuality; and perception and memory. Through our choice of speakers and our active promotion efforts, we hope to draw audience members from Cognitive Science, Gender Studies, Theater and Performance Studies, and Anthropology. We also expect to attract members of the university and local communities who are interested in the social, physiological, and psychological aspects of contemporary musical practices. With this diverse group of speakers, we intend to inspire wide-ranging discussions focused on the intersections of performance, reception, ethnography, and the body.

Unless otherwise noted, all colloquia take place at 6 p.m. in room 315 of the Orwig Music Building on the Brown University campus. The series is open to the public and free of charge. (To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh as far in advance of the event as possible.)

November 12: Music and the Brain: Bridging Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Medicine
Amir Lahav, Visiting Scientist in Systems Biology at the Harvard Medical School

Speaker's abstract:

Bio:

December 3: Is It My Body? Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop and Rock Performance
Steve Waksman/Smith College

Speaker's abstract:

Bio:

February 4: On Tonal Motion and Force
Fred Lerdahl/Columbia University

Speaker's abstract:

Bio:

April 1: The Ethnography of Listening: Encountering Hybridity
Sarah Weiss/Yale University

Speaker's abstract:

Bio:

April 3: The Limit(s) of Perception: The Question of Embodiment in Mediated Environments
Chris Salter/Concordia University, Montreal

Speaker's abstract:

Bio:

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Hôtel garnis, Garçons de joie

11 Septembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

 

Exposition de documents iconographiques et d'archives sur la prostitution masculine et lieux et fantasmes, à Paris de 1860 à 1960.

 

Du célèbre Hôtel Marigny, rue de l’Arcade, où Marcel Proust se rendait régulièrement, au fameux Hôtel du Saumon, « le bordel de Saïd », passage Ben Aïad dans le 2ème arrondissement Des bars aux bals, des jardins aux vespasiennes, en passant par l’atmosphère torride des bains de vapeur, vous croiserez les occasionnels, comme les marins et les militaires, mais aussi les entretenus, les garçons de plaisir et leurs souteneurs. On ne vous cachera rien des jeux sexuels de ces messieurs, des tableaux vivants au sadomasochisme, et pour couronner le tout, on vous fera entrer dans le cabinet secret d’un Bordel d’hommes.

Au détour d’une rue ou dans l’intimité d’une chambre, il vous semblera croiser les ombres de Marcel Proust ou de Jean Genet, de Roland Barthes ou de Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Oeil de La Lucarne :


Fidèle à sa mission de préservation de l'iconographie homosexuelle, la précieuse galeriste Nicole Canet présente les mille facettes de la prostitution masculine à Paris, de 1860 à 1960, révélant un monde sulfureux et sensuel, méconnu et clandestin.

En pratique :


EXPOSITION du 12 septembre au 27 octobre 2012

Nicole Canet

Galerie au Bonheur du Jour

11 rue Chabanais 75002 Paris

- Tél. 0142965864

Du mardi au samedi 14h30-19h30

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Une ontologie des corps

11 Septembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

Spacious Body: Explorations in Somatic Ontology

Spacious Body: Explorations in Somatic Ontology
 

In Spacious Body, Jeffrey Maitland brings his knowledge and personal experience of Buddhism, phenomenology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, and the bodywork system of Rolfing to bear in forging concepts adequate to an understanding of embodied experience

www.michalon.fr/+-JANDIN-+.html

Pierre-Philippe Jandin est professeur de philosophie. Il dirige un séminaire au Collège international de philosophie a publié des textes sur Levinas, Blanchot,

 

Pierre-Philippe JANDIN

Une ontologie des corps (à fleur de peau)

Séminaire

 

18h30-20h30

Mer 5 déc, Mer 12 déc, Mer 19 déc : Salle JA01 Maurice Allais, Carré des

Sciences, 1 rue Descartes, 75005 Paris

Mer 9 jan : Salle N34, Lycée Henri IV, 23 rue Clovis, 75005 Paris

Mer 16 jan : Salle JA01 Maurice Allais, Carré des Sciences

Mer 23 jan : Salle des Médailles, Lycée Henri IV

Pour les séances de séminaire se déroulant au Carré des sciences, vous devez donner

votre nom et présenter votre pièce d’identité ou votre passeport, à l’exclusion de tout

autre document, au vacataire du Collège.

Vers 1700, au début du siècle des Lumières, la terre était peuplée de 600 à 669 millions

d’âmes ; le 31 octobre 2011, la population mondiale est estimée à 7 milliards d’êtres humains.

Ces nombres, ces très grands nombres sont connus et généralement assortis de considérations

sur les menaces que cette croissance démographique fait peser sur les conditions de vie et

même, plus radicalement, sur les possibilités de survie des habitants du globe. Toutefois il ne

s’agit pas simplement d’une question quantitative, de la multiplication indéfinie des exemplaires

d’un même genre, du foisonnement irrépressible de l’identique mais d’une mutation

qualitative qui appelle une nouvelle pensée de l’être pour s’ouvrir à un autre monde. Il y a eu

cosmos, il y a eu res extensa, « vient à présent mundus corpus, le monde comme peuplement proliférant

des lieux (du) corps », le lieu d’« une prodigieuse presse des corps » (J.-L. Nancy, Corpus).

Il faut entendre par « presse » à la fois la hâte sans repos de la dis-location permanente et

la « presse » du contact, de la contagion, du corps à corps. Ces milliards de corps nous sont livrés

exposés par des milliards d’images.

Ces corps n’occupent pas l’espace, ils donnent lieu à l’existence ; les corps sont l’acte d’exister,

l’acte même de l’ex-istence, l’être. D’où la nécessité d’une nouvelle ontologie : « L’ontologie

n’est pas encore pensée, en tant que fondamentalement elle est ontologie du corps = du lieu

d’existence ou de l’existence locale » (Corpus). Pour esquisser une autre pensée du corps ou la

pensée d’un autre corps qui n’est ni substance, ni phénomène, ni chair, ni signification mais

ouverture, espacement, effraction, il nous appartiendra d’essayer de le dégager de la réticulation

philosophique et théologique dans laquelle il est « saisi » : « corps », « chair », « âme »,

« esprit ».

Pourrait-on parler du grain de l’existence comme on parle du grain d’une peau ?

Intervenants :

- Mercredi 5 décembre : Pierre-Philippe Jandin (professeur de philosophie) : Une ontologie des

corps – une ontologie locale

- Mercredi 12 décembre : Jérôme Lèbre (professeur de philosophie en CPGE, membre du

Collège des études juives et de philosophie contemporaine à l’Université Paris 4, membre du

comité scientifique de la revue européenne « Phasis ») : Variations sur le peuplement (populations,

peuples)

- Mercredi 19 décembre : Emmanuel Falque (professeur de philosophie et doyen de la Faculté

de Philosophie de l’Institut Catholique de Paris) : Corpus et épaisseur du corps

- Mercredi 9 janvier : Fernanda Bernardo (professeur de philosophie à l’Université de Coimbra,

Portugal) : Expeausition’s (La peau du coeur chez Jean-Luc Nancy) (titre provisoire) ; Ginette

Michaud (sous réserve) (professeur à l’Université de Montréal, Canada) : Corps de

peinture

- Mercredi 16 janvier : Sylvain Santi (maître-assistant à l’Université de Savoie) : La langue fait

corps : sciatique et rhétorique

- Mercredi 23 janvier : Jean-Luc Nancy (professeur de philosophie émérite à l’Université de

Strasbourg) : Le corps érotique

 

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The Body Canvas photography

10 Septembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

The Body Canvas International Photo Competition

 

Body art and modification has been practised for thousands of years across the globe. People have cut, stretched, dyed and pierced their bodies for recognition, relationships, beauty and rites of passage.
The RAI is launching an international photo competition that seeks to find out more about body modification by exploring questions such as:
- Who is involved in body art and modification communities?
- Why do people permanently alter their bodies? 
- What are the symbols, meanings, and relationships attached to body alterations?
- Where do practitioners, artists, doctors congregate?
-What type of tourism has this diverse industry created?







THE BODY CANVAS

The Body Canvas photography contest forms part of the RAI’s Discover Anthropology Outreach Programme http://www.discoveranthropology.org.uk

The contest aims to:
• promote public engagement with the RAI’s Education Outreach Programme

• provide a platform for people to share their work and become actively involved in anthropology

• develop an understanding for the personal, social and political reasons why people undergo permanent body modification

• explore the many ways in which communities around the world develop and express relationships with their bodies

• explore the industry of body modification, the artists, doctors and craftsmen who practise their trade

The submissions we are looking for:

Engaging photographs that explore biological, cross-cultural and social elements of body art and modification in relation to these categories:

1) Tattoos and Scarification

2) Piercings and Body Reshaping

Below are themes that could be visualised under each category. They are meant to be illustrative and not restrictive. Applicants are encouraged to think creatively about how they can communicate these categories and relate their photographs to anthropological themes. Photographs can include aspects related to body modification such as media and advertising, rituals, material objects, technological advancements, forensics.


Category 1: Tattoos and Scarification

- the commercialisation and commodification of body art and modification

- the growing industry of tattoos (parlours, conventions, festivals, TV programmes, films)

- the relationship between tattoos/scarification and metamorphosis (self-development, discovery and growth as an individual)

- tattooing as a discipline where well-known professionals are respected for their craftsmanship

- the community of body modification artists and cross-pollination of ideas and practises

- tourism generated by the artists/trade and practitioners

- body modification as a means of expressing one’s spiritual/religious beliefs

- body modification and controversy, social exclusion or stigma

- body modification as a means of expressing group identity and reaffirming social ties and status

- tattooing as an addiction- adrenaline, pleasure, thrill and excitement

- body modification and exhibitionism

- body modification and rites of passage

- tattoos and forensic anthropology

- cultural interpretations of beauty and aesthetics

- tattoos and art

- tattoos carrying protective elements against disease, illness, evil spirits and possession


Category 2: Piercings and Body Reshaping

- pushing the body to its physical extremes, dealing with fear, emotion and pain

- body reshaping and perceptions of strength, beauty, and attractiveness

- body building, fitness and popular culture

- plastic surgery and perceptions of beauty, age and social status

- reconstructing the body after accidents, illness,

- body reshaping and the media

- body modification as a means of expressing group identity and reaffirming social ties and status


Who can participate:

The competition is free to enter and is open to anyone within the UK and abroad who is interested in anthropology, photography and the body. Both professional and amateur photographers are welcome.

Guidelines for submissions:

• All applicants must fill in the registration form which can be found on the following website: www.discoveranthropology.org.uk



**Participants must complete a separate form for each of their submissions**

• To be considered for the photo competition, each photograph must be accompanied by a title and text of 50-150 words to be included in the registration form.

• Participants can submit a maximum of four photographs to EACH of the categories: 1) Tattoos and Scarification 2) Piercings and Body Reshaping . Composite images can be entered as well

• Photographers may not submit the same image to more than one category

• Once a photograph has been submitted, it is final and may not be replaced by another photograph.

• Photographs need to be submitted in high resolution JPEG/ TIFF or PNG format and sized less than 10MB. Please send submissions to Nafisa Fera, the RAI Education and Communications Officer at education@therai.org.uk

• Submissions must be suitable for all audiences. We will not accept R-Rated photographs including adult themes, sexually-oriented nudity or genitalia.

• Submissions that infringe copyright agreements, are unethical or disrespectful of anyone will disqualify the photographer from the contest.

• The RAI is not responsible for any late, misrouted, lost or damaged entries

• All decisions made by the judges are final

• The prize is non-exchangeable



How will the submissions be judged?

The Royal Anthropological Institute has appointed a panel of judges who will assess the photos based on the following criteria:

- creativity and originality of the photograph

- quality of the written text and its incorporation and exploration of anthropological themes

- technical quality of the photograph

To get some ideas of other RAI photo contests take a look at our Flickr webpage: www.flickr.com/photos/raieducation

Deadlines for submission

The deadline for submissions is 30th September 2012

The RAI will notify the applicants of the panel's decision by November 2012.


Prizes

All short-listed contestants will be published in RAI educational materials. In addition, the winning photograph from each category will receive a £100 Amazon gift voucher.


Copyright and Data Protection

All images submitted for consideration to the RAI’s Body Canvas Photo Competition remain the sole property of the photographer. By submitting to the contest the entrants agree that the RAI has the right to use and display their work for the RAI’s online and printed materials or for further use (as the RAI deems appropriate) without requiring additional compensation. The RAI will cite entrants as copyright holders of their work in its own publications, but takes no responsibility for any third party usage of photographs.
Any personal data acquired will be used primarily in connection with the RAI’s Body Canvas Photo Contest to facilitate communication with the entrant and for consideration of future RAI activities, competitions and events. The data will not be passed on to third parties without the prior consent of the entrant.

For further enquiries
Please contact the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Education & Communications Officer Nafisa Fera at education@therai.org.uk or 020 7387 0455 with any further enquiries.

Sources of Information and Inspiration

For more information about body art and modification take a look at these great online resources:

Pitt Rivers Museum Body Arts website

Penn Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology Body Cultures website

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The Body Canvas photography competition forms part of the RAI's Discover Anthropology Programme.

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Sessualità in divenire. Adolescenti, corpo e immaginario

9 Septembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

Sessualità in divenire. Adolescenti, corpo e immaginario

www.francoangeli.it/Ricerca/Scheda_Libro.asp?... - Traduire cette page

Una ricostruzione articolata del processo di sviluppo della sessualità individuale, partendo dall'infanzia fino alla tarda adolescenza. Il volume – attraverso il ...

 

La sessualità, oggi, si "vede" ovunque, non occorre andarla a cercare; ci troviamo di fronte ad un flusso costante di immagini più o meno velatamente riferite al sesso ma di sessualità non si parla. Forse la si balbetta, pressappoco, nelle pagine delle riviste, nelle conversazioni tra pari, nelle chat e nei forum. La reticenza nel riconoscere il giusto spazio ad un argomento come la sessualità è il sintomo di un disagio diffuso, che diventa malessere nel momento in cui viene associata all'adolescenza.
Il volume propone una ricostruzione articolata del processo di sviluppo della sessualità individuali, partendo dall'infanzia fino alla tarda adolescenza. 
La riflessione condotta in queste pagine, incentrata sul contesto italiano ma con costanti raffronti ad altre realtà sociali, culturali e storiche, si sviluppa partendo da un insieme di testimonianze raccolte sul campo, attraverso la conduzione di interviste, focus group e l'analisi di materiale etnografico online. Lo scopo è dare la parola agli adolescenti per mostrare dall'interno il mutamento in atto; un cambiamento che, per certi versi, sta portando al superamento delle tradizionali dicotomie di genere.

Alessandro Porrovecchio è dottore di ricerca in Scienze Umane e Sociali presso l'Università degli Studi di Torino, dove insegna Elementi di Sociologia e Sociologia della Comunicazione e dell'Informazione. I suoi interessi di ricerca si rivolgono, in particolare, alle culture del corpo, alla sociologia della sessualità, alla sociologia dello sport e al tema della medicalizzazione dei corpi

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PRIMER SIMPOSIO DANZA EN CUERPO Y ALMA

9 Septembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL DE DANZA, MEXICO
PRIMER SIMPOSIO DANZA EN CUERPO Y ALMA

 

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PRIMER SIMPOSIO DANZA EN CUERPO Y ALMA 22 de octubre de 2012. Sede: Ápeiron Teatro Monterrey 319, Col. Roma Sur, C.P. 06760. México, D.F.


22 de octubre de 2012


Sede: Ápeiron Teatro


Monterrey 319, Col. Roma Sur, C.P. 06760
México, D.F.


Destinado a: investigadores, docentes, críticos, periodistas culturales, bailarines, coreógrafos
y estudiantes avanzados de la comunidad dancística internacional a participar con ponencias.
1. Dentro de la temática y disciplinas danzarias, los textos serán de tema libre e inéditos, pudiendo estar enmarcados en los géneros artículo, ensayo o testimonio.
2. Un resumen de la ponencia, de una cuartilla de extensión, deberá enviarse a ciadmexico1@gmail.com, antes del 17 de septiembre del año en curso.
3. Se programarán las mesas o sesiones según la concordancia temática de las propuestas y el número de participantes. El programa final se dará a conocer el 8 de octubre de 2012.
4. La entrada al Simposio será libre.
5. La ponencia deberá presentarse en documento electrónico (word), con una extensión de cuatro a siete cuartillas (arial o times, 12 puntos a doble espacio), así como una breve conclusión de la ponencia. Además, los anexos, aparato crítico o gráficas, en su caso, que no deberán exceder de tres cuartillas.
6. Cada participante tendrá un tiempo de exposición de diez minutos para leer una síntesis de su trabajo al público. La ponencia completa será publicada en las Memorias del evento.
7. La ponencia completa, acompañada de un breve currículum y fotografía del ponente, deberá enviarse a ciadmexico1@gmail.com con copia a lilflomtz@gmail.com , antes del 30 de septiembre de 2012.
8. Se entregarán constancias de participación y se incluirán los textos en la Memoria del evento, que se difundirá vía electrónica a nivel internacional.
Invitan:
La Confederación Interamericana y Consejo Mundial de Profesionales de Danza (CIAD),
la Federación Mexicana de Profesionales de Danza, Danza 3.0
y el Comité Organizador del Concurso Internacional Pasión por la Danza CIAD 2012

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The Imaginary Drinker: Bodies and Beverages in Art and Society

9 Septembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

39th Annual Association of Art Historians Conference and Bookfair, University of Reading, April 11-13, 2013
Deadline: November 12, 2012
The Imaginary Drinker: Bodies and Beverages in Art and Society

 

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19 Jun 2012 – The Imaginary Drinker: Bodies and Beverages in Art and Society. Session convenors: Frédérique Desbuissons et Edward Payne. Drinks and ...

 

Session convenors: Frédérique Desbuissons (Université de Reims / INHA, Paris) and Edward Payne (Courtauld Institute, London)


Drinks and drinkers permeate the history of art. Since the Renaissance, the social, cultural and symbolic functions of drinking have featured widely, in historical and religious painting, genre scenes, portraiture and independent still-lifes. By representing the bodily act of drinking – simultaneously human necessity, pleasure and social habit – these works constitute a corpus rich in social, cultural and anthropological implications. The analysis of drinks and drinkers, however, has long been left to food historians. This session seeks to explore the fruitful exchange between art and food by examining the impact of drinks on the formal analysis of art, on aesthetic theories and notions of creation, as well as on artistic sociabilities and sensory encounters. If we consider the drink as a global object, then images of drinkers form an ideal perspective from which to investigate not only the relationship between sensory experience and the social and cultural dimensions of artistic representation, but also the underlying tensions between human production and necessity peculiar to any society. Topics for discussion may include, but are not limited to: • Divine drinkers: the Feast of the Gods, Bacchic processions, the Last Supper • The vice of intemperance: Noah and Lot • The institution of drinking: social norms and representations • Gendered drinkers • The materiality of drinks: real and imaginary pleasures and correspondences • Drinking and its associated rituals: eating, smoking, card playing… • Artistic and drinking sociabilities: corporatist banquets, artist cafes, brasseries, ginguettes, pubs… • Creativity and intoxication: from the Dionysian to the decadent To propose a paper for this session please follow the proposal guidelines outlined on the paper proposal form on the AAH website: http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/2013-conference

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Bodily Cultivation and Cultural Learning

9 Septembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

Taipei, Taiwan
May 24th-26th, 2013
Taipei National University of the Arts
CORPUS
INTERNATIONAL GROUP FOR THE CULTURAL STUDIES OF THE BODY
&
ACADEMIA SINICA INSTITUTE OF ETHNOLOGY

53 minutes ago – 8th International Symposium of Corpus Bodily Cultivation & Cultural Learning Call for Paper - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), text file (.txt) or

 

CALL FOR PAPERS
Founded in 2009 after a series of seminars organised between 2001 and 2008 at the EHESS (Paris) and the Autonomous University of Madrid, CORPUS aims at being an effective participant in building a widely diverse and scientifically-based dialogue on the anthropological aspects of the body. As a cross-thinking forum, CORPUS now brings together more than four hundred researchers from over sixty-five different countries.
The themes of the preceding symposia were "The Beautiful and the Ugly: Body Representations" (Lisbon, January 2010), "Foreign Bodies: Enhancing & Invading the Human Body" (Moscow, May 2010) and "Bodies & Folklore(s): Legacies, Constructions and Performances" (Lima, October 2010), "Diets and Food Patterns: Myths, Realities and Hopes" (Tbilisi, July 2011), "Devoted Bodies or Great Shows? Making Profit on Sacred Areas" (Munster, September 2011), "Genders, Cultures and Citizenships" (San Cristóbal de las Casas, November 2011) and "Parents’ Bodies, Children’s Bodies. From Conception to Education" (Timisoara, November 2011).
Organized by Academia Sinica and Taipei National University of the Arts, the theme for the Ninth International CORPUS Symposium is “Bodily Cultivation and Cultural Learning.” Almost all cultures recognize as a means of achieving religious or spiritual goals, cultivating moral and emotional virtue, or transforming ideas into bodily practices. Some of the most common examples include fasting, meditation, vegetarianism, and qigong or taichi. Rather than focus on these obvious examples, conference attendees will examine culturally driven bodily practices such as proper ways to walk, sit, and gesture—all of which are often endowed with rich cultural meaning, information about cultural learning, and knowledge about the cultivation of values and merit. Bodily cultivation can also be analyzed as a channel for learning, manifesting, developing, or shaping cultural concepts and ideals.
Participants will work on defining bodily cultivation in a broader sense, one that encompasses exercise, nurturance, and physical training as special modes of concept construction. Rather than focus on mind-body dualism/interaction, we will direct our attention to ways that bodily cultivation has been used to internalize cultural ideas, morality, and knowledge. Panels will also discuss various characteristics such as intentional design versus unintentional programming, professional versus amateur training, spiritual versus secular orientation, and mundane versus hedonistic/ascetic features.
Attendees are encouraged to propose or submit papers on these panel topics:
Daoist body concept and religious cultivation
Body techniques and skills: expert or novice
Craftsmanship
The athletic body
Everyday forms of discipline
Practice, process and metaphor
Memory and body
Civilization process
Proposals for English-language panels and presentations tied to these themes are welcomed. Proposals must include an abstract (400 words) and a current CV. The deadline for receiving proposals at corpustaiwan@gmail.com is December 15, 2012. All proposals will be evaluated by an international committee. There is no registration fee. Participants are solely responsible for all transportation, visa arrangements, travel insurance costs, and accommodations.
Contacts:
CORPUS General Coordinator
Frédéric Duhart
frederic.duhart@wanadoo.fr
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Coordinator
Shuenn-Der Yu
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Sc. Com. Coordinators
Meiling Chien
mlchien@faculty.nctu.edu.tw
mmmchien@mail2000.com.tw
Salomé Deboos
salome.deboos@googlemail.com
José Luis Grosso
jolugros@gmail.com
For more information on CORPUS and its activities, please visit http://corpus.comlu.com

 

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Homo eroticus

9 Septembre 2012 , Rédigé par leblogducorps.over-blog.com

Homo eroticus

Des communions émotionnelles

 

Alchimies festives, culte du plaisir, retour en puissance des affects et des émotions : Eros triomphe, et nous enseigne que la profondeur se cache toujours à la surface des choses, dans la banalité de notre quotidien. Triomphe de la raison sensible sur le vieux rationalisme scientiste, du vouloir- vivre collectif sur l’individu, de la joie dionysiaque sur les morales arides qui stérilisent l’action. Triomphe des pulsions et de l’imaginaire sur le progressisme empesé de nos élites et la pruderie de nos bien-pensants.

Attentif aux humeurs et aux enthousiasmes sécrétés par le corps social, cernant au plus près les vibrations du monde, Michel Maffesoli signe une oeuvre essentielle, aboutissement de trente ans de réflexion, livre-manifeste qui chante l’éternelle jeunesse du monde et annonce une rupture épistémologique destinée à renouveler en profondeur les conditions de la pensée philosophique.

 

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