Zapraszamy na konferencję naukową, która odbędzie się 21 i 22 marca w Bibliotece Międzywydziałowej na Kampusie Piastów Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego oraz zdalnie za pośrednictwem platformy Zoom. Organizatorem „Legal bodies, embodied subjects: (re)contextualisations of physicality” Young Scholars’ Conference jest dr hab. Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup z Instytutu Literatury i Nowych Mediów US wraz z Kołem Naukowym „Law and Literature”. Gościem specjalnym będzie dr hab. Justyna Stępień z Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. Poniżej udostępniamy program konferencji oraz link do wydarzenia w serwisie Facebook: https://fb.me/e/1rKhytWVM
21.03 THURSDAY
9:00
• Welcome from the Conference organisers and representatives of the University of
Szczecin
• Opening remarks by dr hab. Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup
9:20-10:20
PANEL 1 – Post-human: Redefining the In/Human Body
Chair: Anna Ronewicz
• Sachi Kalra, HSNC University: Beyond Frankenstein: Ethical Reflections on
Modern Scientific Developments
• Riju Chakraborty, University of Burdwan: Of Monsters and Men: Interrogating the
Blurred Boundaries in Victorian Gothic
• Hongliang Zhou, Changsha University of Science and Technology: Fabricating the
New Eva: The Post-human Bodies and Robot Theatres in Cyberpunk Future
• Tahreem Munir Rao, Forman Christian College: Consumer Identity and Post-
Alterity in Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman
10:20-10:40 – Discussion
10:40-10:50 – Coffee break
10:50 – 11:50
PANEL 2 – Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Non-embodied Subjects
Chair: mgr Sylwia Hałub
• Laura Klińska, Adam Mickiewicz University: From corporeality to corporeal
resignification: The rise of AI in Jeanette Winterson’s writing
• Szymon Paweł Pokrywka, University of Szczecin: The cyborg as a victim of crime –
some remarks on the basis of Polish criminal law
• Sagar Chandrakar, Hidayatullah National Law University; Prerana Verma,
MATS University: AI on Trial: Crimes Against Bodies and the Legal Status of
Artificial Intelligence – A Comparative Legal Analysis of Laws in Poland and India
• Sahra Azadzoy, Taipei National University of the Arts: The Female Body and
Machine Learning Training Datasets
11:50-12:10 – Discussion
12:10-12:20 – Coffee break
12:20 – 13:20
PANEL 3 – Policing the Body Beyond the Hegemonic “Normal”
Chair: Alicja Benowska
• Marietta Kosma, University of Oxford: Gender body politics, the case of Mary-
Mathilda in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe
• Sudipta Agarwal, Jamia Millia Islamia: Owning the Body: Exploring the Idea of
Female Bodily Desires through Rekhkti
• Adrianna Juszczuk, University of Szczecin: Red Robes and Legal Codes: Exploring
Law and Its Oppression of Women’s Bodies in The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by
Margaret Atwood
• Sourav Das, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur: You Are So
Gay: Exploring Gay Masculinity in Two Indian Fictions
13:20-13:40 – discussion
13:40-14:25 – lunch break
14:25-15:10
PANEL 4 – Body as an Object of Crime: Exploration of the Body as a Legal Subject
Chair: mgr Szymon Pokrywka
• Ding Duczek, University of Szczecin: Discipline and Authority: Exploring the
Historical Narratives of Corporal Punishment in Ancient China
• Anna Maria Ronewicz, University of Szczecin: “Meat is Me(at)”: Queering the Art
of Self-Destruction in the Mortal Garden of The Magnus Archives Audio-Drama
• Przemysław Parasiak, Independent Scholar: Body snatching in Scotland in the
19th century based on Burke and Hare case
15:10-15:25 – discussion
15:25-15:35 – coffee break
15:35-16:20
PANEL 5 – Policing Othered Bodies: Historical Perspectives of Gender Body Politics
Chair: Hanna Basiak
• Lea Pešec, University of Graz: Body Politics: Drag as a Tool for Meaning-Making
and Identity Resistance
• Alicja Benowska, University of Szczecin: “Flowers in a box” – perception of
women and their role in Japanese society; before World War II and after
• Emilie de Saint Martin, Université Paris 8: Pregnancy declarations in 18th century
France: the policing of women’s bodies under the Ancien Régime
16:20-16:35 – discussion
16:35-16:45 – coffee break
16:45-17:30
PANEL 6 – Representations of Animal Bodies and the More-than-Human World
Chair: dr Brooke Cameron, Queen’s University, Canada
• Mary Taylor Mann, Utah State University: Swinburne’s Sanguinary Experiments.
• Mary V. Johnson, Queen’s University: “Unscientific Creatures’: Becoming Girl,
Becoming Animal in 19th and Early 20th Century Children’s Literature.
• Liayana Jondy, Queen’s University, Kingston: “The Animal Speaks: Edith
Carrington’s Literary and Activist Writing on Animals.”
17:30-17:45 – discussion
22.03 – FRIDAY
9:00-10:00
Plenary speaker:
dr hab Justyna Stępień, University of Łódź
More-than-human Entanglements in Bio-art Ethical Laboratories
10:00-10:10 – coffee break
10:10-11:10
PANEL 7 – Contested Bodies in the Dichotomy of Sacrum/Profanum
Chair: dr Barbara Braid, US
• Hanna Basiak, University of Szczecin: Royals Bodies: The Objectification of Royal
Women in the British Media
• Jacqueline Victoria Woroniec, University of Szczecin: “Sexy as Hell”: Camping
the Satanic Body in Contemporary TV Series
• Sabarno Sinha, Jadavpur University: Bodies of the Citizen and the Sovereign:
Reviewing Political Texts from 16th and 17th Century Europe
• Hicham Diouane, Independent Scholar: Sacred Bodies, Contested Choices: A
Discourse Analysis of Islamic Views on Body Part Donations
11:10-11:30 – discussion
11:30-11:40 – coffee break
11:40-12:25
PANEL 8 – Sexing the Body: Objectifications of Divergent Desires
Chair: mgr Jacqueline Victoria Woroniec, US
• Vlinder Verouden, Utrecht University: The Cost of Free Sexual Health Care for
MSM and TSM
• Sylwia Hałub, University of Szczecin: Controlling the Body – Asexuality and the
Intersections of Canon Law and Polish Civil Law
• Monika Plucińska, University of Szczecin: Human body and sexuality through the
eyes of female filmmakers as depicted in contemporary adaptations of Women in love
and Lady Chatterley’s lover by D.H. Lawrence
12:25-12:40 – discussion
12:40-12:50 – coffee break
12:50-13:20
PANEL 9 – (Non)Anthropologies of Physicality
Chair: Prof. dr hab. Maciej Jońca, Faculty of Law and Administration, US
• Szymon Bogucki, University of Szczecin: Leviathan; Mythical authority of the state
and law
• Anna Temel, University of Warsaw: “Don’t Ask Questions, Just Keep Eating!”:
Carnism and the Legalization and Legitimization of the Abuse of Non-Human Animal
Bodies in Popular Culture
13:20 – 13:30 – discussion
13:30-14:15 lunch break
14:15-14:45
PANEL 8 – Non/Body: Exploring the Subjects Not There
Chair: mgr Sylwia Hałub
• Monali Chatterjee, Gujarat Arts and Science College: A Denial of the Body
through Selected Instances of Legal Discourses in Literature
• Georgina Bianca Laube, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: The Silent Narratives:
Investigating the Impact of Absent Bodies in Memorial Photography
14:45-14:55 – discussion
14:55-15:05 – coffee break
15:05-15:50
PANEL 11 – Recontextualising the Social Narratives of Normativity
Chair: dr hab. Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup, US
• Wiktoria Józefczyk, University of Szczecin: Beauty Standards in the Age of
Surveillance
• Grace Kully, Queen’s University Belfast: From Hyde to Hook: The Villainization of
Disabled Bodies
• Maria Anna Łusakowska, University of Warsaw: Riders of the Orphan Trains: A
Corporeal History of a Malleable Heredity
15:50-16:05 – discussion
16:05-16:30 – coffee break
16:30-17:10
Panel 12: Non-Normativity in Systems of Oppression
Chair: Alicja Benowska
• Jessica Lee, Independent Scholar: Mobile Women’s Subjectivities in the Roman
City: Using Transportation to Contest Public Space
• Xin Zhang, University of Toronto: ”Double Door Refrigerators” and “188cm Male
Group”: Cultural Symbols of Male Bodies in East Asian Tanbi (Boy’s Love) Comics
and Fictions
• Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University: Des(s)ert Kisses:
Hegemonic Hunger and White Savi/orism in Once in a Promised Land
17:15 – 17:30 – discussion
17:30 – Closing remarks
