WORKSHOPS FOR PHD CANDIDATES AND POSTDOCS
Four workshops for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers will take place on 20 June, a day before the official start of the conference.
Workshops
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1. Cultural Politics of Empathy
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Carolyn Pedwell joint the University of Kent in 2014 where she is Director of Studies for Cultural Studies and Media as well as joint Head of Internationalisation at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. She recently completed an AHRC Fellowship on the links between transnational politics and the ‘turn to affect’, which led to the publication of Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (2014). Other research interests: embodiment and embodied practices; theories of habit and habituation; digital culture and sociality; transnational and cross-cultural theory and methods; feminist, postcolonial and queer theory.
Chris Weedon, professor emerita, former chair of Critical Theory, Cultural Studies and Women's Studies at Cardiff University. Her books include Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory (1987) and Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference (1999), Identity and Culture: Narratives of Difference and Belonging (2004), and Gender, Feminism and Fiction in Germany 1840-1914 (2007). She has also edited Die Frau in der DDR: An Anthology of Women's Writing from the German Democratic Republic (1988), and Postwar Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches (1997), and co-edited Gendering Border Studies (2010).
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2. Empathy, Animals, Film
Special guest: Lori Gruen
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Lori Gruen, professor and chair of philosophy, professor of environmental studies, and professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, is the author of a new book, Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals. In this book, she argues that rather than focusing on animal rights, we ought to work to make our relationships with animals right by empathetically responding to their needs, interests, desires, vulnerabilities, hopes and unique perspectives. Pointing out that we are already entangled in complex and life-altering relationships with other animals, Gruen guides readers through a new way of thinking about and practicing animal ethics.
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Special guest: Fritz Breithaupt
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Convenors: Marco Caracciolo and Hugues Marchal
Fritz Breithaupt is a professor of Germanic Studies, adjunct professor in Comparative Literature, and affiliated professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana University. His latest books provide humanities responses to work in cognitive science, addressing issues of empathy, narrative thinking, and moral reasoning. For example, he suggests that human empathy typically involves three (and not two) people. By training, he is a comparatist. Currently, he is writing a book on the the connection of narrative thinking and moral reasoning, as well as an English follow-up to his German work on empathy (Kulturen der Empathie), The Dark Sides of Empathy. Just out with Suhrkamp: Die dunklen Seiten der Empathie.
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4. Empathy and Ethics at the End of Life: Perspectives from the Medical Humanities
This workshop is a collaboration between the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (University of Zurich) and the Department of English (University of Basel).
This workshop is a collaboration between the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (University of Zurich) and the Department of English (University of Basel).
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Convenors: Anna Elsner, Franziska Gygax and Manuela Rossini Ivan Callus is Professor of English at the University of Malta. He is the founding co-editor of CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary, launched with Edinburgh University Press in 2015. The journal’s focus is on literature’s evolving identities and its directions in contemporary culture, a focus that complements his commitment to posthumanism: he is co-editor of the Critical Posthumanisms book series with Brill and co-director of the Critical Posthumanism Network. He is also a member of the Humanities and Medical Science Programme at Malta. Marion Coutts is an artist and writer. She works with a range of material forms: found objects, digital video, film, drawing, sound, text and photography. Her first book, The Iceberg, won the Wellcome Book Prize 2015. She is currently a Senior Lecturer on BA Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She writes occasionally on Art for Intelligent Life and has been invited to speak on panels that explore topics like medicine and disorders of the self alongside oncologists, biochemists, neurosurgeons and poets. Anne Hudson Jones is Professor and Harris L. Kempner Chair in the Humanities in Medicine, in the Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH) and the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health of The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, where she is also on the faculty of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She served for eight years as Director of the IMH Medical Humanities Graduate Program, which offers the only Ph.D. in medical humanities in the United States. She is a founding editor of the journal Literature and Medicine. Seamus O'Mahony is a consultant gastroenterologist at Cork University Hospital. His academic interest is in the Medical Humanities and has published widely in this area. His book The Way We Die Now is a plea for dealing more humanely with the very natural process of death, calling for a demedicalisation of death and dying. He is associate editor for Medical Humanities of the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review of Books. P |