Storytelling & the Body
An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project
Monday 15th July 2019 – Tuesday 16th July 2019
Verona, Italy
Monday 15th July 2019
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Opening Words: Seán Moran, Event Leader
09:30 – 10:30 Workshop 1: Responsibilities and Obligations: Understanding Mitákuye Oyásʼiŋ
Clementine Bordeaux & Mary Bordeaux
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 13:00 Session 1A: Storytelling (Post)Human and Marked Bodies
Chair: Seán Moran
Gothicizing Apotemnophilia: Live Burial, Secret Desire, and the Uncanny Body of the Amputee Wannabe
Becky McLaughlin
“When does the person become the body?”: Posthuman Bodies in Don DeLillo’s Zero K (2016)
Adéle Nel
Betwixt Bodies: Reflections on the Art of Jai Chuhan
Graeme Gilloch
Tattoo Narratives Behind Bars
Timea Barabas
Session 1B: The Examining and Fashioning the Body
Chair: Keren Lloyd Bright
Performing History in the Trinidad Carnival: Breaking Barriers and (Re)telling History Across Post-Colonial Borders
Anjuliet Woodruffe and Joanne Briggs
Body of the Story: Revelations in Class and Gender Encountered in Character Clothing
Kovida Mehra and Vinita Sinha
The Scarred Body of the Text: Storytelling and Experiment in Bhanu Kapil’s Work
Flore Chevaillier
The Body as a Learning Tool: Consent, and Sensitive Examinations Performed by Medical Students
Phillipa J. Malpas
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 2: Sex and the Body on the Screen
Chair: Lisa L. Ortiz
thank you, next (video): Navigating Porn Consumption in Intimate Relationships
Alisha Fisher
Bodies Under Water: Interspecies Communication and Ethical Living-Together in Jean Painlevé’s Cinematic Storytelling
Franziska Strack
Performing the Body/Myself On Screen – Daniel Monks’ Marrow (2015) and Pulse (2017)
Kerreen Ely-Harper
15:30 – 15:45 Tea/Coffee
15:45 – 17:15 Session 3: Storytelling Bodies that “Don’t Fit”
Chair: Sarah Revilla Sanchez
The Adolescent Body in Quality Television Crime Dramas: Strong Female Characters and the Fetishism of Violence Against Young Women
Peggy Tally
Adolescent Bodies in Young Adult Poetry: Cognitive Dissonance and Conscious Episodic Memory
Donna Mahar
Narrating the Monstrous Body: Monstrous Femininity and Subversive Storytelling in Elif Shafak’s The Gaze (2006)
Mine Sevinc
17:15 – 17:30 Cross Panel Issues, End of Opening Day Consolidation
17:30 Wine and Drinks Reception
Tuesday 16th July 2019
09:00 – 09:45 Performance: MY EYES ADORE YOU: You Are Beautiful To Me
Sunita S. Mukhi
09:45 – 10:30 Interactive Installation 1: (In)visiable Women: Making More Visible the Woman in the Body through Audio-stories
Sushila Chowdhry and Maya Chowdhry
**this session requires interested participants to sign up for specified time slots
10:30 – 10:45 Tea/Coffee
10:45 – 12:40 Session 4A: Writing the Body and Identity
Chair: Anna Furse
Intimate Witnesses: Writing Lives and Bodies at the Limits of Existence
Margaret Gibson
Body Memoir: Remembering Familial Past with Storytelling
Anh Hua
The Body as Pure Character: Materializing Identity to Convey Purpose
Tyler Noah
Ailments, Angst, and Ageing in Kingsley Amis’ Ending Up
Zeynep Z. Atayurt-Fenge
Session 4B: Storytelling Real Selves
Chair: Gigi McNamara
Sharing Selves: How Intimacy Moves Selves From “I” to “Us” to “We”
Karen V. Fernandez
Breaking the Social Pressure of Infinite Maternal Love
Marcin Filipowicz
Telling the Story of the Theatre of our Bodies
Anna Furse
Figure Study in Light by Paul Holmes
Paul Holmes
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 5: Storytelling the Body in Popular Culture
Chair: Donna Mahar
The Celebrity Body as Site for Empowered Consumerism: A Textual Analysis of Kylie Cosmetics
Gigi McNamara
Tango Stories: Narrating Body Pre-Industrial to Post-Internet
Ro Lawrence
Protest Imitating Art: The Handmaid’s Tale
Lisa L. Ortiz
15:30 – 15:45 Tea/Coffee
15:45 – 17:45 Session 6: Storytelling Othered Bodies
Chair: Susan Di Raimo
The Body as a Project and Storyteller of the Embodied Self
Alicia Ettlin
Storytelling, the Body Female and the Body Politic: Cultural Property and National Identity
Keren Lloyd Bright
Too Too Solid Flesh: Queerly embodied reflections on Early Modern and contemporary corporeality and self-fashioning
Ellan Parry
The Geographies of Heteronormativity: The Source of Symbolic Homophobic Violence at a South African University
Anthony Brown
17:45 – 18:00 Cross Panel Issues, Day 2 Consolidation
18:00 – 18:15 Project Development, Closing Thoughts and Goodbyes