Conference Programme, Day 2

9:15 - “You make me vulnerable”: the supernatural male body as masochistic object in Lucifer

Rebecca Pearce

9:30 -  Labouring bodies and magical souls in British fantasy adaptions

Jennifer Doveton

9:45 - The veiled body and agency in contemporary Egyptian cinema

Alaa Belkis Nouasri

10:00 - Biologically determined immateriality: trans bodies in mainstream video games

Robin Longobardi Zingarelli

10.15 - Q&A – all presenters

9.15 - Black Women's Agency in Virtual Spaces: using parafiction, refusal, and experimental ethnography in gaming experiences and mechanics

Chantal Eyong

9.30 - Black intersex, transgender, and gender diverse communities and their resistance

Nepantla Canizzo

9.45 - (Queer) Body Politics, Phenomenology, and (Performative) Spectacle within Select Queer Feminist Poetry: A comparative study

Saher Bano

10 - Reproductive bodies and nutrition - field observations from central India

Devanshi Chanchani

10.15 - Q&A – all presenters

9.15 - The Waters that Binds Us: exploring water citizenship, knowledge and understandings in Wales and Aotearoa New Zealand

Belinda Wheaton

9.30 - Shapeshifting forms, cleaving Ecologies of Encounter: urban folk project's Yellammanaata; StillPoint's Detritus.

Supraja

9.45 - Microbial Multitudes: navigating the transdisciplinary terrain of the human microbiome

Enrique Castro-Sanchez

10 - Public perceptions of traditional singing to promote wellbeing and respiratory health. Survey findings from Makkah region, Saudi Arabia

Saeed M Alghamdi

10.15 - Q&A – all presenters

10.45 - Digital embodiment: Navigating the identity of non-profit teams in the remote work era

Petra Buresova

11 - Leaky Leadership: female-sexed bodies in business self help books

Morwenna Carr

11.15 - The well-managed and energetic body: a critique

Heidi Bickis

11.30 - Q&A – all presenters

10.45 - ‘Get Off Your Ass and Work’: tracing the working woman narrative from Greek mythology to Kim Kardashian

Ryanne Probst

11 - There Is No Sexual Relation: the Kardashians and black masculinities

Manuel Tirado Harpin

11.15 - Use of Artificial Intelligence and Holography: Robert Kardashian resurrected?

Lida Papakonstantinou

11.30 - Q&A – all presenters

10.45 - Bio-slavery and Neo-Cannibalism of the Human Body Shop: the politics of organ transplantation in Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest

Aditi Barman Roy

11 - The Oscillation of Contemporary Bodies Between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: Tania Bruguera's migratory work

Katerina Paramana

11.15 - Representing Ordinary Abortion, Abortion Stigma, and Reproductive Justice in Keabetswe Makhooane's "I dare you to call home" (2017) and Zola Ndimande’s “Entering the Void” (2017)

Rachel Hurst

11.30 - Q&A – all presenters

11.45 - The mediated experience of the body

Nelly Quemener & Rym Kireche Gerwig

12 - Female organs on a chip: using engineering to replicate organs at the micro scale

Ruth Mackay

12.15 - 3D printing application for healthcare research

Bin Zhang

12.30 - Q&A – all presenters

11.45 - What's in a label? A researcher's reflection on neuro-queer identities for bodies that simply won't "fit in"

Beck Lowe

12 -The movement and fluidity of self-love: Exploring women's experiences of self-love within collectivist cultures, an IPA and SEA study

Kavita Bhopal

12.15 - Spin

Ellis Sharpe

12.30 - Q&A – all presenters

11.45 - Flesh and Memory: trauma encased in bog bodies and reflected in Seamus Heaney's “Punishment”

Sydney Feldhake

12 - The limits of care for the female other’s disfigured body in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians

Emna Sfaihi Rebii

12.15 - The Body as Content: artificial intelligences and the shaping of identity

Sarah-Mace Dennis

12.30 - Q&A – all presenters

14:00 - La Demande: the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles (Suits, 1978)

Hugo Glover

14:15 - Better Close than Never

Denise Burge

14:30 - Strokes

David Crump

14:45 - Q&A – all presenters

2 - Grievability and Embodied Visuality from Biopolitics to Necropolitics

Donia Mounsef

2.15 - The Case of Patrice Lumumba: the vanishing body that refuses to die.”

Piet Defraeye

2.30 - “no place with human beings, living or dead”: Unmourned Bodies, Grievability, and Absence” deals with contemporary adaptations of Antigone.

Lily Climenhaga

2.45 - Embodiment and Precarity: the value and discardment of women’s performing bodies”

Sarah Jackson

3 - Q&A – all presenters

Storying the Body: Narratives from a Sri Lankan War Zone

Neloufer de Mel, Ruhanie Perera & Visakesa Chandrasekeram

Screening of the film-essay Journey (2023) followed by Q&A with the film maker and researchers

 The Joy of Sets: A data drawing workshops about SexTech

Rebecca Saunders

14:00 Bodies in a medieval church

Laura Agustin

Small group walk to a medieval church in Uxbridge.

Please note that this will include a short bus trip, for which you will need a credit/debit card or an oyster card. Limited numbers, registration essential