{"id":4169,"date":"2015-05-15T12:37:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T11:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2015-05-27T13:02:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T12:02:03","slug":"skepsi-to-hold-its-8th-conference-on-disgust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/05\/15\/skepsi-to-hold-its-8th-conference-on-disgust\/","title":{"rendered":"Skepsi to hold its 8th conference on &#8216;Disgust&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/skepsi\/\">Skepsi<\/a> <\/em>will be holding its 8th\u00a0annual conference later in the month, under the theme \u2018Disgust\u2019. The event will be held over two days, 29 and 30 May 2015.<\/p>\n<p><em>Skepsi<\/em> is a peer-reviewed online journal produced within the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/index.html\">School of European Culture and Languages<\/a> (SECL). It is run\u00a0by our PhD\/MA candidates, with the support of established and early career academics, and commits to publishing the work of postgraduate students and emerging scholars.<\/p>\n<p>Disgust has received growing critical attention among researchers in fields as varied as literature, philosophy of art, biology, psychology or gender studies. It is universally experienced even if the object of disgust can vary greatly according to the cultures. With the neurosciences increasingly gaining attention from the humanities for their project of explaining cognitive states and processes with reference to the material brain, it is opportune to reflect upon those experiences that strike the pit of the stomach before the head. Key research questions that will concern us are: Why is disgust so appealing? What is the relationship between physical and moral disgust? Can disgust be explained with the help of the theory of evolution? How is the rhetoric of disgust mobilised in far-right ideologies? These questions will be examined from a variety of perspectives including psychological and psychoanalytical approaches, sociological and anthropological perspectives, the representation of disgust in the arts, philosophical and political approaches, natural sciences and theories of the body.<\/p>\n<p>The full programme is below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 29 May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>09:30-10:00 Registration and coffee<\/p>\n<p>10:00-10:15 Welcome and Introduction (Marine Authier and Dominique Carlini-Versini)<\/p>\n<p>10:15-12:00\u00a0<strong>Panel 1: Disgust in Late 20th\u00a0and 21st Century Fictions (Chair: Barbara Franchi) <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christine Temko (Louvain, Belgium), \u2018\u201cFlesh Settles Against Bone\u2026 but Mexican is Sloppier\u201d: Reversing Disgust Ethics and Aesthetics in Eugene Marten\u2019s <em>Waste<\/em>\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Sabina Sitoianu (Kent), \u2018Spectacle of Disgust: Physical and Sociomoral Disgust at play in Peter Greenaway\u2019s <em>The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover<\/em> (1989) \u2013 a Metaphor for Thatcherite Vulgarity?\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Massimo Bonifazio (Turin, Italy), \u2018A Disgusting Field. Attitudes Towards Food in G\u00fcnter Grass\u2019 novels <i>The Tin Drum <\/i>and <i>The Flounder<\/i>\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>12:00-12:20\u00a0Coffee break<\/p>\n<p>12:20-14:05\u00a0<strong>Panel 2A: The Impact of Disgust on the Political Agenda and Lawmaking (Chair: Tom Watts)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James F Downes (Kent\/Hong Kong Baptist), \u2018The 2014 European Parliament Elections: The March of the Extreme Right and The Politics of Disgust?\u2019<\/li>\n<li>David Radlett (Kent), \u2018On the Motivation of Laws by Disgust\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Robin Mackenzie (Kent), \u2018Cultural Reframing of Sexual Disgust\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Panel 2B: Sexuality and Bodily Disgust (Chair: M\u00e9lanie Lebon) <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alan Le Grys (Kent), \u2018Why is God Disgusted by Sex?\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Sarah-Maria Schober (Basel, Switzerland), \u2018Transcending Disgust: Habituation, Authority and the Decaying Body in Early Modern Anatomy\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Riccardo Baldissone (Kent\/Curtin, Australia), \u2018Disgusting, really? Changing Feelings of Disgust as Witnesses of Human Plasticity\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>14:05-15:10 Lunch break<\/p>\n<p>15:10-16:20\u00a0<strong>Panel 3: 18th Century Fiction and Disgust (Chair: Melanie Dilly) <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deborah Ross (Hawaii Pacific, US), \u2018Phillis\u2019s Foul Linen: Sexual Disgust at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Carson Bergstrom (Salford), \u2018History is Shit: Satire, Scatology, and Cognitive Linguistics\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>16:20-16:45 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p>16:45-18:15 <strong>Keynote address<\/strong> Roger Giner-Sorolla (Kent), \u2018Disgust is Unreasoning for a Reason\u2019 (Chair: Mathilde Poizat-Amar)<\/p>\n<p>18:15 Wine reception<\/p>\n<p>20:00 Conference dinner (city centre)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 30 May 2015 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>09:30-10:00 Coffee<\/p>\n<p>10:00-11:10 <strong>Panel 4: Disgust in Philosophical Discourses (Chair: David Bremner) <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Serene John-Richards (Kent), \u2018On Disgust, or Encountering the Subject\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Martijn Buijs (Johns Hopkins, US\/ENS Paris, France), \u2018The Force of Disgust in Rosenkranz\u2019s \u00c4sthetik des H\u00e4sslichen\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>11:10-11:30 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p>11:30-12:40 <strong>Panel 5: Disgust and Anthropology (Chair: Marine Authier) <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jason Mast (Warwick), \u2018Difference, Distance and Disgust: Deciphering a Strong Sensation\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Cl\u00e9mence Jullien (Nanterre la D\u00e9fense, France), \u2018Dealing with Impurities of Childbirth: Contemporary Reconfiguration of Disgust in India\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>12:40-13:40 Lunch break<\/p>\n<p>13:40-14:50 <strong>Panel 6: Psychological Perspectives on Disgust (Chair: Matt Fysh) <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tom Kupfer (Kent), \u2018Why are Injuries Disgusting?\u2019<\/li>\n<li>John Sabo and Roger Giner-Sorolla (Kent), \u2018The Fictive Pass: Condemnation of Harm, But Not Purity, is Mitigated by Fictitious Contexts\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>14:50-15:20 Coffee break<\/p>\n<p>15:20-16:30 <strong>Panel 7: Women and Disgust in Literature and Film (Chair: Dominique Carlini- Versini) <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna Pili\u0144ska (Wroclaw, Poland), \u2018Man Repellents: Adult Women in Nabokov\u2019s, Kubrick&#8217;s, and Lyne\u2019s versions of <em>Lolita<\/em>\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Katie Jones (St Andrews), \u2018The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Revolting Women in Contemporary Literature\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Registration for the event costs \u00a310, which includes a wine reception. For details of how to register please see the page here: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/skepsi\/\">http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/skepsi\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skepsi will be holding its 8th\u00a0annual conference later in the month, under the theme \u2018Disgust\u2019. 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