program 2014

15:00–16:00 BODY IN LITERATURE (chaired by Marzenna JAKUBCZAK, Pedagogical University of Cracow)

• Welcome note - Tadeusz GADACZ, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology
• The embodied self: representations of gendered silent bodies in Bengali literature - Sanjukta DASGUPTA, University of Calcutta

16:15-18:00 (chaired by Wojciech SADY, Pedagogical University of Cracow)

• Embodiment and disembodiment of the female in three Tagore's poems - Blanka KNOTKOVÁ-ČAPKOVÁ, MUP & Charles University
• Body attractiveness as depicted in Sanskrit epic literature - Iwona MILEWSKA, Jagiellonian University

Thursday, 29.05

10:00–11:45 BODY IN MEDICAL TEXTS (chaired by Krzysztof JAKUBCZAK, Jagiellonian University)

• Phenomenology from the outside: bodily being in the earliest Indian medical compendium (Caraka Samhita) - Chakravarthi RAM-PRASAD, Lancaster University
• Treating cough and becoming immortal: Rasāyana in Sanskrit medical literature - Dagmar WUJASTYK, University of Zurich
• Art and the body: Tatsuno Art Project 2013 - Akiko KASUYA, Kyoto City University of Arts
• The image of the body-face: the case of Franz X. Messerschmidt and Bill Viola - Maria POPCZYK, University of Silesia
• Embodied mind and phenomenal consciousness - Maria VENIERI, University of Crete
• Disfigured and communicative bodies: Daoism, Buber, and Lévinas - Eric S. NELSON, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Friday, 30.05

12:00–13:30 BODY IN PERFORMANCE (chaired by Anna KARNAT-NAPIERACZ, Pedagogical University of Cracow)

• The covered body: between plaisir and jouissance? The case of classical Indian & Japanese theatre - Elżbieta KOŁDRZAK, University of Łódź
• Manifestation of the Kabuki actor’s sex on the woodblock prints in Edo period - Beata ROMANOWICZ, National Museum in Krakow

15:15–17:30 (chaired by Katarzyna GURCZYŃSKA-SADY, Pedagogical University of Cracow)

• From mortification of the body to the comfort of contemporary design - Elżbieta STANISZEWSKA, Kazimierz Pulaski University of Technology & Humanities
• [We apologise for the last minute cancellation] Expression and the stylised clothed body - Ian W. KING, London College of Fashion & University of the Arts
• The ruined migrating bodies - Urszula CHOWANIEC, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University & University College London

Wednesday, 28 May

• 15:00-18:00 afternoon session (opening)

Thursday, 29 May

• 10:00-13:45 morning session
• 15:15-17:00 afternoon session
  • 17:30 – Reception at Chimera Restaurant

Friday, 30 May

• 12:00-13:30 morning session
• 15:15-17:30 afternoon session (closing)
• 18:30 -EUROPEUM (European Culture Centre in the Old Granary) a guided gallery tour at the exhibition placed in a new branch of the National Museum
• 19:00 - Between the ideal and reality: The human body in the eyes of artists - talk of Janusz WAŁEK, the Exhibition Curator, National Museum in Kraków

12:00–13:45 BODY IN ART (chaired by Iwona MILEWSKA, Jagiellonian University)