[MaFLa] Reminder: Conference on Somaesthetics - Szeged - May 14-16th

[Alexander Kremer]

*Somaesthetics: Between the Human Body and Beyond*

*(Szeged, Hungary, May 14-16th, 2018)*



The conference is organized by the MTA SZAB Filozófiai és Történettudományi
Szakbizottság, the Hungarian Philosophical Association, the Philosophy
Department of the University of Szeged and the Pro Philosophia Szegediensi
Foundation.



Conference Venue: MTA SZAB, conference room 110 (6720 Szeged, Somogyi Str.
7) Session lectures are 20 minutes long, and we have 10 minutes per lecture
for discussion.



*MAY 14 (Monday)*

10:00-10:15: Opening words: *Zoltán Gyenge*, Chair of the Philosophy
Department; Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged

10:15-11:00: Keynote speech: *Richard Shusterman (USA)*: *Somaesthetics
Between the Human Body and the Bodies of Gods *(Prof. Shusterman is a
Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities and Director of
the *Center for Body, Mind, and Culture*; Dorothy F. Schmidt College of
Arts and Letters; Florida Atlantic University)

11:00-11:30: Discussion

LUNCH: 11:30-14:00

14:00-15:00: Presentations (Chair:  Pravda Spasova)

-          *Daniel Jayes O’Brien (UK):* *A Somaesthetic Study of Religious
Art*

-          *Yanping Gao (China):* *Nature and The Transactional Body: A
comparative study between  traditional Chinese shanshui paintings and
German Romanticism landscape paintings*



15:00-15:15: Coffee break

15:15-16:45: Presentations (Chair: Lorraine Yeung)

-          *Pravda Spasova (Bulgaria):* *Our Beautiful Future*

-          *Dorota Koczanowicz (Poland):* *Cultivating taste: Somaesthetics
in the restaurant*

-          *Matthew Crippen; Sarah Ehssan Hammad (Germany & Egypt):* *Art
Therapy and the Loss and Emergence of Self*



16:45-17:00: Coffee break

17:00-18:00: Presentations (Chair:  Anne Tarvainen)

-          *Ana Došen (Serbia):* *Japanese Cinema and Visceroception*

-          *Lorraine Yeung (Hong Kong):* *The Value of Horror Reconsidered*

18:00-21:00: Welcome dinner (Trója Restaurant, 6720 Szeged, Kölcsey F. Str.
4)



 *MAY 15 (Tuesday)*

9:00-10:30: Presentations (Chair: Bálint Veres)

-          *Iren Annus (HU): **Uses and abuses through representation:
Beyond the human body – of children*

-          *Leszek Koczanowicz (Poland):* *Somapower and Microphysics of
Emancipat*ion

-          *Alexander Kremer (HU):* *Enhancement Technologies and the Body*



10:30-10:45: Coffee break

10:45-11:45: Presentations (Chair:  Matti Tainio)

-          *Renáta Dezső (HU)*: *Co-Ability in Solid Bodies Coming Together*

-          *Bálint Veres (HU):* *Tactile Tactics in 21st Century Cultural
Displays*



LUNCH: 11:45-14:00

14:00-15:00: Presentations (Chair:  Botond Csuka)

-          *Anna Kérchy (HU):* *“L’Animal que donc je suis.” Posthuman
Somaesthetics in Contemporary BioArt Performances*

-          *Erzsébet Lamár (HU):* *The tragedy of a paradox. Nietzsche's
thoughts on being torn apart*



15:00-15:15: Coffee break

15:15-16:15: Presentations (Chair: Renáta Dezső)

-          *Botond Csuka (HU)*: *Exercise as a Technology of the Self in
the British Enlightenment*

-          *Matti Tainio (Finland):* *Running and Sensuous*



17:00-18:00: R. Shusterman: *Ethics and Aesthetics: From Somaesthetics to
the Art of Living*

(Auditorium Maximum, Faculty of Arts, SZTE, 6722 Szeged, Egyetem Str. 2)

18:00-19:00: WALKS AND TALKS WITH A FILM “Philosophical Encounters with
Richard Shusterman” (Delos Film, 28:37;  27:18 min. - Auditorium
Maximum,  Faculty
of Arts, SZTE, 6722 Szeged, Egyetem Str. 2)



 *MAY 16 (Wednesday)*

9:00-10:30: Presentations (Chair:  Matthew Crippen)

-          *Anne Tarvainen (Finland):* *Body, Voice, and Disorder– Adele's
lost voice as a culturally constructed problem*

-          *Christos** Sideras (UK):* *The Music of the Body*

-          *Yali Nativ (Israel): **Living in their bodies: Ageing
Professional Dancers Producing Somaesthetics Lifestyles*



10:30-10:45: Coffee break

10:45-11:45: Presentations (Chair:  Yali Nativ)

-          *Nóra Horváth (HU):* *The political power of photography –
politics of the naked/nude man*

-          *Freya Verlander (UK):* *The Invention of Morel *and Machines of
Mingled Skin



11:45-12:00: Coffee break

12:00-13:30: Presentations (Chair:  Iren Annus)

*- Sue Spaid (USA): **How Ameliorative (Art) Practices Work: Action,
Teamwork and
WellBeing
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*- Robert Smid (HU):* *Engaging with Ecology: Climatic Encounters of the
Body, Environmental Rhythms in Culture*

*- **Walker Trimble (Russia): **The Uncanniness of Mental Organs:
Oscillating Metaphors and Embodied Transitions*



13:30-13:50: Establishing the *Hungarian Forum of Somaesthetics *and
closing words*: Alexander Kremer*
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