CARNAL AESTHETICS

TRANSGRESSIVE IMAGERY AND FEMINIST POLITICS

An international and interdisciplinary Symposium
Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, Utrecht University
11 March 2011, 10.30-17.00


Morning Session: Sentient Bodies

Chair: Dr. Marta Zarzycka

10.30-10.45 Dr. Marta Zarzycka & Dr. Bettina Papenburg
Welcome and Opening Word

10.45-11.30 Dr. Erin Manning (Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montral)
Another Regard Encounters with the More-Than Human

11.30-11.45 Coffee/tea

11.45-12.30 Dr. Bettina Papenburg (Gender Studies, Utrecht University)
Grotesque Sensations

12.30-14.00 Lunch break


Afternoon Session: Affective Images

Chair: Dr. Bettina Papenburg

14.00-14.45 Prof. Martine Beugnet (Film Studies, University of Edinburgh)
Tactile Visions. From Embodied to Encoded Sex

14.45-15.30 Dr. Marta Zarzycka (Gender Studies, Utrecht University)
Showing Sounds

15.30-15.45 Coffee/tea

15.45-16.30 Dr. Patricia MacCormack (Film and Media Studies, Anglia Ruskin University)
Mucosal Monsters

16.30-17.00 Roundtable Discussion

17.00 Reception


This symposium fosters the dialogue between scholars contributing to the forthcoming volume Carnal
Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics (IB Tauris, London). Employing recent
theories of transgressive body imagery, trauma, affectivity and sensation this symposium seeks to
present and discuss various analyses of case studies coming from a range of contemporary visual
practices. It provides a fresh look at the meeting point between an ongoing debate on the politics of
representation and an emerging scholarship on the politics of perception through the prismatic lens of
feminist theory.

Supported by:
Focus Area Cultures & Identities
Graduate Gender Programme
Research Institute for History and Culture

Contact:
Dr. Marta Zarzycka m.j.zarzycka@uu.nl
Dr. Bettina Papenburg b.papenburg@uu.nl
Background image: Detail from Fallen Heads by Wangechi Mutu, 2010 Susanne Vielmetter Projects, L. A.