The Body: Ethos and Ethics
October 6 – 7, 2006
The New School and Hunter College
In Association with the Foucault Society
present
An International Symposium
The Body: Ethos and Ethics
6-7 October 2006
Program
Friday, October 6:
Hunter College
The Ida K. Lang Recital Hall
424 Hunter North
(Lexington & 69th Street)
Welcome: 9:00 a.m.
Opening Remarks
David Lee Carlson, Hunter College, CUNY
Session I: 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Conceptualizing the Body in Law, Art and Medicine
Victoria Pitts, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, Chair
Joe Rollins, Queens College, CUNY and Fellow, Center for Law and Society, University of California at Berkeley, Sacred Profanities: Transubstantiating Law and the Body of Christ
Patricia Ticineto Clough, CUNY, Rereading the Order of Things: Is there a New Episteme for the Body?
Susan Bell, Bowdoin College, Bodies of Art and Regimes of Disease
Session II: 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
The Bio-Medical Body
Daniel Lee Carlson, founder, HIV Forum, New York, Chair
Daniel Lee Carlson, founder, HIV Forum, Crystalmeth, AIDS and Queer Bodies
Paola Ferruta, University of Bielefeld, Germany, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler’s Critical Confrontation about the Hermaphrodite. Does the “Happy Limbo of a Non-Identity” Exist?
Kathryn Morgan, University of Toronto, From Ugly Duckling to TechnoSwan: A Foucaultian Analysis of Biomedicalized Aesthetics
Melissa Sklarz, Political Activist, Trans-Identity and the Culture at-large
Lunch Break
Session III: 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Behind the Veil
Karen Kachra, Northwestern University, Chair
Karen Kachra, Northwestern University, ‘I am Fighting:’ A Genealogical Analysis of L’affaire foulard, France 2003-2004
Ruti Teitel, New York Law School, Through the Veil, Darkly
Yaffa Schlesinger, Hunter College, The Body in Jewish Law
Coffee break 3:30-4:15 p.m.
Session IV: 4:30-5:30 p.m.
The Aesthetics of the Body
Angela Krewani, University of Marburg, Chair
Katharine Conley, Dartmouth College, Francesca Woodman: A Swimmer Between Two Images
Angela Krewani, University of Marburg, Germany, Masculinities & Contemporary Combat Films
Wine reception: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 7:
The New School
Wollman Hall
65 W. 11th Street, 5th Floor
(Entrance at 66 W. 12th Street)
Welcome: 9:00 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Terri Gordon, The New School
Session I: 9:30-11:15
Foucauldian Feminists on Normalization and Freedom
Dianna Taylor, John Carroll University, Chair
Dianna Taylor, John Carroll University, Monstrous Women
Cressida Heyes, University of Alberta, Canada, Psychopathology and Normalization: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery and Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Ellen Feder, American University, The Dangerous Individual(‘s) Mother: Biopower and the Production of Race
Karen Vintges, University of Amsterdam, The Final Foucault’s ‘Oriental Subtext’ and the Emerging Discourse of Islamic Feminism>
Session II: 11:30-12:45
Domestic Institutions: Kinship and “Care for the Self”
Ann Stoler, The New School for Social Research, Chair
Miri Rozmarin, Tel Aviv University, Mothering and the Ethos of ‘Care for the Self’
Jacqueline Stevens, University of California at Santa Barbara, The End of Marriage
Lunch Break
Session III: 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Gendered Violence
Jay Bernstein, The New School for Social Research, Chair
Johanna Oksala, University of Helsinki, Gender and Violence: Foucaultian Interventions
Dominque Grisard, University of Basel, Switzerland, “Gendered Terrorism in Mass Media: The Intertwining of Terrorist and Gender Discourses in Swiss Mass Media”
Coffee break 3:30-4:00 p.m.
Session IV: 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Rethinking Foucauldian Ethics
Catherine Mills, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, ‘Normal Life’
Catherine Mills, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, ‘Normal Life’
Jana Sawicki, Williams College, Foucault and Sexual Freedom: Should We Embrace an Ethics of Pleasures?
Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College, “Thus to Kneel:” Will and the Obedient Body
Keynote Address, “In Perpetual Disintegration”: 5:30 p.m.
Ladelle McWhorter, Professor of Philosophy and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Richmond, Virginia
Author of Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization (Indiana University Press, 1999)
Dinner at Café Loup: 7:00 p.m. 105 W. 13th Street
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