Conference Women and their Body Program 16.03.2023

16. 03	Panel 1	Panel 2
9.30	Welcome	Welcome
	Session: Ancient Period	Session: Digital Technologies and Cyborg
10.00	Sappho and the Body in Desire Chelsea Harry Southern Connecticut State University	The Reinvention of the human body: Cyborgs, String Figures and new Boundaries Felix Grewe Paderborn University
10.30	Leontion and Epicurean Woman Body Enrico Piergiacomi Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento	Women’s body and digital technologies: disembodied freedom or reproduction of social hierarchies? Annalisa Cananzi University of Bologna
		Session: Contemporary thoughts
11.00	The real body-the imaginative body. Women and their bodies in the ancient Greek drama George N. Vlahakis Hellenic Open University	Describe, experience, and visualize: Re-inventing the female body through science communication Evangelia Chordaki Hellenic Open University
11.30	Coffee break	Coffee break
	Session: Medicine
11.45	Theoretically contended: the female body in 13th-century theology, anthropology, and natural philosophy Amalia Cerrito University of Pisa	Mothers matter! Mother(hood) as material-discursive entanglement Lisa Krall University of Cologne
12.15	Losing a Part of You? On the Philosophical Relevance of Miscarriage and other Forms of Pregnancy Loss Amber L. Griffioen Duke Kunshan University	“Throwing like a girl”, “spreading like a man”? Body, power, and the sense of being in the right Henning Nörenberg University of Rostock
12.45	Lunch	Lunch
14.00	Miscarriage: Phenomenological and Feminist Perspectives Sidra Shahid University of Amsterdam	The theoretical construction of female embodiment in the early feminist phenomenological framework of Iris Marion Young Ariadni Polychroniou University of Athens
		Session: Culture and Religion
14.30	A New Logos for Genos: Approaching a Philosophy of Birth Stella Villarmea University of Madrid	The Challenge of Menstrual Shame in South-Asian Cultures: A Phenomenological Study Gaganjot Kaur University of Delhi
15.00	Menstrual temporality: Cyclic bodies in a linear world Sarah Pawlett-Jackson St Mellitus College	A Comparative Study of Women’s Body as Ritual Containment in African Indigenous Churches and African Indigenous Religion in South-Western Nigeria Ayegboyin Abimbola Bowen University Iwo
15.30	Coffee break	Coffee break
15.45	The experience of dysmenorrhea Carlota Serrahima University of Barcelona	Tenderness towards the body as a cognitive, ethical and aesthetic imperative Natalia Anna Michna Jagiellonian University in Kraków
16.15	Been Seen whilst hidden Ainhoa Rodriguez University of the Basque Country	The Politics of Embodiment, Intersectionality, and Recognition Shadi Heidarifar University of Florida
16.45	Current Neuroimaging Research into Hysteria and its Ambiguous Relation to the Traumatised Female Body Paula Muhr Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	The Reproduction of Power Imbalances: a holistic, abolitionist approach to social injustice Susan Stark Bates College
17.15	Coffee break	Coffee break
17.30	The Politics of the Thyroid. Re-Claiming One’s Own Metabolism Urszula Lisowska University of Wroclaw	Body as a Miniature of Cosmos: Female Daoist Embodied Thinking Robin Wang Loyola Marymount University

This is the preliminary program. Rooms will be indicated later.