The Future of the Body: Phenomenology, Medicine and the (Post)human

The Future of the Body: Phenomenology, Medicine and the (Post)human

Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

19-20 June, 2014

Organised by Luna Dolezal (TCD) and Dylan Trigg (UCD)

This conference will bring together leading scholars working in Philosophy,
Medical Humanities, Medicine, and related disciplines whose work critically
engages with the status of the body. Central to this engagement is a
phenomenological focus of the role lived experience plays in discussions
about what it means to be human, especially as technologies and medical
practices enter previously unchartered territories. Engaging theory with
practice in an interdisciplinary context is a central aim of the conference.
A public event on the theme of posthuman performance will include a talk
from French performance artist ORLAN.

***Places for this event are extremely limited, but please register through
the website to reserve a place***

PROGRAM

Thursday - 19th June 2014

8.30 - 9.00, Registration and Coffee

9.00 - 9.15, Welcome and Opening Remarks: Juergen Barkhoff, Luna Dolezal and
Dylan Trigg

9.15 - 11.15, Panel 1 – THE BODY AND MEDICINE

Chaired by: Tim Mooney, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin

Martyn Evans, Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, “Tales of
Wonder: The This-ness of Material Bodies”

Des O’Neill, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, “Expanding the
Imaginarium of Ageing”

Dermot Moran, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, “What Can
Phenomenology Still Contribute to the Understanding of Embodiment?”

11.15 - 11.45, Tea and Coffee Break

11.45 - 2.00, Panel 2 – THE STATUS OF THE BODY

Chaired by: Aleksandra Derra, Philosophy, Nicolaus Copernicus University

Havi Carel, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, “Bodily Doubt”

Lilian Alweiss, Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, “Why the
Self is Not Embodied”

William Large, Philosophy, University of Gloucestershire, “Seeing and
Speaking: The Ontology and Ethics of the Human Body in Medicine”

2.00 – 3.15, Lunch

3.15 – 5.30, Panel 3 – POSTHUMAN BODIES

Chaired by: Katie Guinnane, School of Education, Trinity College Dublin

Barry Lyons, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, “Will I be Allowed
to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up?”

Luna Dolezal, Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin  “A Genealogy
and Phenomenology of Morphological Freedom”

Stuart Murray, School of English, Leeds University, “Disability and the
Posthuman”

6.00 – 7.30, ORLAN and Rachel Armstrong in the Science Gallery

Friday - 20th June 2014

10.00 – 12.15, Panel 4 – THE BODY IN PRACTICE

Chaired by: Ewa Binczyk, Philosophy, Nicolaus Copernicus University

Dorothée Legrand/Dylan Trigg/Line Ryberg Ingerslev, École Normale
Supérieure/ University College Dublin/ Aarhus University, “Reflections on a
strange kinship: Time/Habit/Body”

Angela Woods, Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, “Voices and,
in, beyond, throughout the Body: The Corporeality of Auditory Verbal
Hallucination”

Felicity Callard, Department of Geography, Durham University, “Rest:
Crossing Brains, Minds, Bodies, Cities”

12.15 - 1.30, Lunch

1.30 – 3.45, Panel 5 – MEDICAL PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE

Chaired by: Janusz Grygienc, Philosophy, Nicolaus Copernicus University

Margrit Shildrick, Gender Studies, Linkoping University, “Chimerism and
Immunitas: The Emergence of a Posthuman Phenomenology”

Kristin Zeiler, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping
University, “Living-With-Others in Transplantation Medicine: How
Phenomenology Takes Us beyond Choice vs Coercion in Parental Live Organ
Donation”

Joan Lalor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, “Fetal
conquests, maternal subjugation: the social impact of ultrasound in
pregnancy”

3.45 – 4.15, Tea and Coffee Break

4.15 – 6.30, Panel 6 – REPRESENTATIONS IN ART AND CULTURE

Chaired by: Jenny Slatman, Department of Health, Ethics and Society,
Maastricht University

Norah Campbell  / Cormac Deane, School of Business, Trinity College Dublin /
School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College Dublin, “Groping the Nano”
Hadrien Laroche, French Embassy, Ireland, “Duchamp’s Waste”

Audronė Žukauskaitė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, “Life,
Multiplicity, Immanence”

6.30 – 6.45, Closing remarks

Luna Dolezal and Dylan Trigg