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Conference Programme, Day 2

Wednesday 26 June 

Today the conference flexes for Bodies Festival, a community arts-led campus takeover, with collaborative interventions from international artists and local residents. See here for the Festival programme running alongside the below conference programme. 

8:30  |  REGISTRATION - HAMILTON CENTRE

Panels: Shaping, Fixing, Redefining  |  Experience, Intersectionality, and Complexity  |  Sharing Place

09:15  |  SHAPING, FIXING, REDEFINING: NARRATIVES OF BODIES AND POWER IN FICTION; DR CAROLINE RUDDELL -  DARWIN, HAMILTON CENTRE

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

09:15  |  EXPERIENCE, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND COMPLEXITY- MEAD, HAMILTON CENTRE 

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

09:15  |  SHARING PLACE: LAND, WATER, HEALTH - TELFORD, HAMILTON CENTRE

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

Workshop

10:00  |   DRAW YOUR (IDEAL) BODY - CAVENDISH, HAMILTON CENTRE

10 - Draw Your (Ideal) Body: an interactive experience and discussion

Anne-Mette Hermans

 

 

10.30am REFRESHMENT BREAK - COURTYARD & NEWTON ROOM, HAMILTON CENTRE


 Panels:  Labouring Bodies  |  Kardashians  |  Bio-Ethics  |  

10:45  |  LABOURING BODIES - DARWIN, HAMILTON CENTRE

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  |  KARDASHIANS - MEAD, HAMILTON CENTRE

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-ETHICS - TELFORD, HAMILTON CENTRE

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

Workshop

11:00  | WRITING SELVES BY INWARD- AND OUTWARD-LOOKING  - CAVENDISH, HAMILTON CENTRE

Writing selves by inward- and outward-looking: Exploring autoethnography in medical education

Ana Baptisa


Panels: Digital Panels and Body Parts  |  Loving, Mental Health, and Therapy  |  Trauma, Care and Literature 

11:45  |  DIGITAL BODIES AND BODY PARTS - DARWIN, HAMILTON CENTRE

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  |  LOVING, MENTAL HEALTH, AND THERAPY - MEAD, HAMILTON CENTRE

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  |  TRAUMA, CARE AND LITERATURE - TELFORD, HAMILTON CENTRE

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

Workshop

12:00  |   CANCELLED -- FORM AND/OR FUNCTION - CAVENDISH, HAMILTON CENTRE

Form and/or Function: Examining the stigmatised body through evidenced-based conceptual art

Kate Luxion



12:45  |   BBQ LUNCH - JOHN CRANK GARDENS AND NEWTON, HAMILTON CENTRE

Panels | Screening | Workshop | Tour

14:00  |  ANIMATING BODIES (2) -  DARWIN, HAMILTON CENTRE

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

14:00  |  PERFORMING GRIEVABLE AND NON- GRIEVABLE BODIES FROM BIOPOLITICS TO NECROPOLITIC- MEAD, HAMILTON CENTRE

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

Q&A – all presenters

14:00  |   FILM SCREENING: STORYING THE BODY - MCST 054, MICHAEL STERLING 

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

14:00  |   WORKSHOP:  THE JOY OF SETS - CAVENDISH, HAMILTON CENTRE

 The Joy of Sets: A data drawing workshops about SexTech

Rebecca Saunders

14:00  |  BODIES IN A MEDIEVAL CHURCH; LAURA AGUSTIN - REGISTRATION DESK, HAMILTON CENTRE

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

 

15:15  |  REFRESHMENT BREAK -  NEWTON ROOM & BALCONY, HAMILTON CENTRE

Keynote: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

15.45  |  KEYNOTE: ELENA FIDDIAN-QASMIYEH - NEWTON ROOM, HAMILTON CENTRE

Refugee Relationality and Knowledge Production in Exile: Palestinian Experiences

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Professor in Migration and Refugee Studies, University College London

In conversation with Professor Daniele Rugo, 91影视University London. 

 

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Prof Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh’s research examines experiences of and responses to conflict-induced displacement, with a particular focus on diverse forms of Southern-led responses to displacement and a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. She has conducted extensive research in refugee camps and urban areas including in Algeria, Cuba, Egypt, France, Jordan, Lebanon, South Africa, Syria, Sweden, and the UK.

Elena is currently the PI of a multi-sited project funded by the European Research Council, South-South Humanitarian Responses to Displacement: Views from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. She is author of The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival (Syracuse University Press, 2014), South-South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development: Views from the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East, (Routledge, 2015, paperback published in 2017), and editor of Refuge in a Moving World: Refugee and migrant journeys across disciplines (UCL Press, 2020 - Open Access). 

More info 

 

KARDASHIANS!

17:00  |  BOOK LAUNCH: KARDASHIANS: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY - NEWTON ROOM, HAMILTON CENTRE

KARDASHIANS: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY

Editors: Meredith Jones, Kath Burton, Donna Brien

Be ready for selfies with our VIP secret guest

MIGRATION MENU

18:30  |  MIGRATION MENU PODCAST LAUNCH & DRINKS RECEPTION - EASTERN GATEWAY, AUDITORIUM

Tasting South Asia in West London: launch of The Migration Menu

James Staples and Luke Heslop

Launch of podcast series that explores journeys from South Asia to West London, through food. Includes sampling food from some of the eateries featured in the .

Film Screening

20:00  |  THE SOIL AND THE SEA, FILM SCREENING - MCST 054, MICHAEL STERLING

THE SOIL AND THE SEA

Daniele Rugo

A screening of the award winning documentary that unveils the violence lying beneath a garden, a school, a café, a hotel, and other unremarkable landscapes. As the camera interrogates these everyday spaces, voices fill them with erased stories.