The Stories Bodies Tell
An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday 24th July 2021 – Sunday 25th July 2021
Online: ShockLogic Platform
Saturday, 24th July 2021
The platform will open at 12:45 GMT – UK Time
13:00 – 13:15 GMT Welcome and Introduction to the Platform: Progressive Connexions Team
13:15 – 14:00 Opening Words and Welcoming Workshop by the Event Leader
14:15 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 15:30 Session 1: Simulated Bodies
Chair: Freja Gyldenstrøm
‘He had turned into a picture’ Neo-Victorian Reinterpretations of Victorian Corporeal Aesthetics of Aging in Susan Hill’s The Man in the Picture
Marta Miquel-Baldellou
“Disembodied Teaching and Learning: analyses of a year of teaching remotely”
Michael A Lange
15:30 – 16:00 Long Break
16:00 – 17:00 Session 2: Expressive Bodies
Chair: Michael A Lange
Magical Bodies? Indian Magician’s Body and the West, c.1813-1935
Sugata Nandi
The Neo-Edwardian Body: Style Production and Act of Becoming
Daria Romanova
17:00 – 17:15 Break
17:15 – 18:00 End of Opening Day Discussion and Consolidation
Sunday, 25th July 2021
The platform will open at 12:45 GMT – UK Time
13:00 –14:00 Session 3: Changing Bodies
Chair: Eunice Gorman
Super People, Super Bodies: Body Representations in Marvel Comics
Eser Yeşim Çakır
Turning the Old Tales into ‘Odd Tales’: An Investigation of the Female Body and Sexuality in Transformations
Hazal Yonca Birincioğlu
14:00 – 14:15 Break
14:15 – 15:15 Session 4: Making Peace with the Body
Chair: Daria Romanova
The Body We Inherit: Understanding Epigenetics, Attachment Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Mythopoetics
Laura McCullough
There is beauty in this body despite what the world has told you
Eunice Gorman
15:15 – 15:45 Long Break
15:45 – 16:30 Session 5: Our Bodies, Our Stories
Chair: Freja Gyldenstrøm
Space to share personal or found stories of moments of making peace with the body and its history, reclaiming the body, finding beauty where it had before been difficult to recognize.
16:30 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 17:30 Outputs & Publications Workshop
17:30– 18:30 End of Day Discussion, Closing Thoughts, Goodbyes