Excess? Images of Body, Health, Morality and Emotions across the Media
International ERC ‘BodyCapital’ Workshop
June 7– 8, 2018
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin
Organiser and Contact: Sandra Schnädelbach
E-Mail: schnaedelbach@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
Thursday, June 7th, 2018
09.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.30 Introduction
Panel 1: Religion, Cult and Experiment
Chair: Sandra Schnädelbach
10.30 – 11.15 Yitzchak Schwartz,New York University
Mystery and the Gift of Death: From the Binding of Isaac to the Crusade Chronicles
11.15 – 12.00 Daniel A. Joslyn, New York University
“No Ordinary Fanatics:” Islam, Ecstasy, and Respectability in Turn-of-the-Century New York City
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
Chair: Tricia Close-Koenig
13.00 – 13.45 Florian Schleking, University of Cologne
Ecstasy, Exercise, Excess? Ambiguous Bodies and Cult Controversies in West Germany
13.45 – 14.30 Christian Bonah & Joël Danet, University of Strasbourg
Henri Michaux, Eric Duvivier and the Medical Film Gaze on Excess
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee Break
Panel 2: Shaping Bodies
Chair: Jessica Borge
15.00 – 15.45
Izzy Rhodes, Royal College of Art, London
The Body Factory: Mechanical Dieting Technologies and the American Home, 1975 – 1995
15.45 – 16.30 Hanna Surma, Utrecht University
Physical and Emotional Excess as Crisis: The Self and/on Video in Reality TV Weight-Loss Programs
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break
Keynote
Chair: Sandra Schnädelbach
17.00 – 18.30 Rhodri Hayward, Queen Mary, University of London
Messy Feelings and the Magic of Tidying Up
18.30 Reception with Wine & Pretzels
20.00 Dinner (for Workshop Participants)
Friday, June 8th, 2018
Panel 3: Socialist Bodies
Chair: Anja Laukötter
09.00 – 09.45 Alexandre Sumpf, University of Strasbourg
How to Be a Socialist Bureaucrat: The Excess of Work, Enemy of the Soviet State
09.45 – 10.15 Sandra Schnädelbach, MPIB, Berlin
Training Health by Training Trust: Excessive Emotions as Risks Factors in GDR Television
10.15 – 10.30 Coffee Break
Panel 4: Pleasure, Lifestyle and Disease
Chair: Christian Bonah
10.30 – 11.15 Alex Mold, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
How Much Is Too Much? Moderation and Excess in Alcohol Health Education Campaigns in Britain, 1970s-1990s
11.15 – 12.00 Kathryn Hughes,University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Lifestyles of Excess: The ‘Othering’ of Excess in Mass-Media Depictions of the AIDS Disease & Liminal Subversive Counter-Narratives in the Visual Arts
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
Panel 5: Medical Bodies
Chair: Jessica Borge
13.00 – 13.45 Hera Cook,University of Otago
Wellington Medical School Excess and Female Genitals in Modern Medical Practice
13.45 – 14.30 Oliver Aas,Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Towards a Theory of Medical Imaging: Genealogies of Bodily Interiority in Arts and Literature
14.30 – 14.45 Coffee Break
Final Discussion
14.45 – 15.30
Commentary: Anja Laukötter
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