Conference: Bodies of Thought

Fleshy Subjects, Embodied Minds & Human Natures

Thursday 9th & Friday 10th June 2011
Royal Society of Edinburgh (22-26 George Street, Edinburgh)

This is the first event attached to the Royal Society of Edinburgh funded Research Network in the Arts and Humanities: Engendering Dialogue: feminist thought and contemporary debates in art, science, and education.

To book places at the conference, please download and complete the Bodies of Thought Registration.

For any enquiries about the conference or Network, please contact Dr Rachel Jones (email r.e.jones@dundee.ac.uk).

Programme

Thursday 9th June
1:00 - 2:00	Registration RSE (22-26 George Street)
2:00	Welcome and Opening Remarks Rachel Jones (University of Dundee) Mike Wheeler (University of Stirling)
2:15 - 3:30	Christine Battersby (University of Warwick), “A-Life, AI and B-Life: The Cognitive Sciences, Bare Life and Birthed Life”
3:30 - 3:45	Coffee
3:45 - 4:50	Veronica Vasterling (Radbound University), “Nature-Nurture Revisited: The Dualist Underpinnings of Evolutionary Psychology and Social Constructionism” Mirko Farina (MACCS, Sydney / University of Edinburgh), “Finding My Mind: A Case for Extended Cognition”
4:50 - 5:00	Short Break
5:00 - 6:00	Mike Wheeler (University of Stirling), “Ways of Mattering: Embodied Thought and Thinking Bodies”
Friday 10th June
9:00 - 9:15	Registration (22-26 George Street)
9:15 - 10:15	John Protevi (Louisiana State University), “Populations of Subjects”
10:15 - 10:25	Short Break
10:25 - 11:25	Chryssa Sdrolia (Goldsmiths, University of London), “For a Panexperientialist Metaphysics of Thought” Lauren Freeman (Concordia University, Montreal), “Feminist Bioethics and a Phenomenological Account of Selfhood: Ontological Solutions to Puzzles in Reproductive Technologies”
11:25 - 11:45	Coffee
11:45 - 1:00	Susan Oyama (John Jay College & CUNY), “Incidence, Essence, and Developmental Systems”
1:00 - 2:00	Lunch (Sandwich Buffet at RSE)
2:00 - 3:00	Miranda Anderson (University of Edinburgh), “Methodologies That Matter” Saray Ayala (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “Manipulating Bodies & Incorporating Technology: Re-inventing Sex”
3:00 - 3:15	Coffee
3:15 - 4:15	Jess Cadwallader (University of Groningen), “Sedimentation, Wounded Attachments and Forgetting: Phenomenology and Psychopharmacology” Eva De Clercq (University of Pisa), “Toward an Ontology of Corporeal Uniqueness”
4:15 - 5:00	Roundtable discussion
5:00	END