The Body: Ethos and Ethics
October 6 - 7, 2006

The New School and Hunter College
In Association with the Foucault Society

present

An International Symposium
The Body: Ethos and Ethics
6-7 October 2006


Program

Friday, October 6:
Hunter College
The Ida K. Lang Recital Hall
424 Hunter North
(Lexington & 69th Street)

Welcome: 9:00 a.m.

• Opening Remarks
• David Lee Carlson, Hunter College, CUNY

Session I: 9:30-11:00 a.m.

Conceptualizing the Body in Law, Art and Medicine

• Victoria Pitts, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, Chair
• Joe Rollins, Queens College, CUNY and Fellow, Center for Law and Society, University of California at Berkeley, Sacred Profanities: Transubstantiating Law and the Body of Christ
• Patricia Ticineto Clough, CUNY, Rereading the Order of Things: Is there a New Episteme for the Body?
• Susan Bell, Bowdoin College, Bodies of Art and Regimes of Disease

Session II: 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

The Bio-Medical Body

• Daniel Lee Carlson, founder, HIV Forum, New York, Chair
• Daniel Lee Carlson, founder, HIV Forum, Crystalmeth, AIDS and Queer Bodies
• Paola Ferruta, University of Bielefeld, Germany, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler's Critical Confrontation about the Hermaphrodite. Does the "Happy Limbo of a Non-Identity” Exist?
• Kathryn Morgan, University of Toronto, From Ugly Duckling to TechnoSwan: A Foucaultian Analysis of Biomedicalized Aesthetics
• Melissa Sklarz, Political Activist, Trans-Identity and the Culture at-large

Lunch Break

Session III: 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Behind the Veil

• Karen Kachra, Northwestern University, Chair
• Karen Kachra, Northwestern University, 'I am Fighting:' A Genealogical Analysis of L'affaire foulard, France 2003-2004
• Ruti Teitel, New York Law School, Through the Veil, Darkly
• Yaffa Schlesinger, Hunter College, The Body in Jewish Law

Coffee break 3:30-4:15 p.m.

Session IV: 4:30-5:30 p.m.

The Aesthetics of the Body

• Angela Krewani, University of Marburg, Chair
• Katharine Conley, Dartmouth College, Francesca Woodman: A Swimmer Between Two Images
• Angela Krewani, University of Marburg, Germany, Masculinities & Contemporary Combat Films

Wine reception: 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 7:
The New School
Wollman Hall
65 W. 11th Street, 5th Floor
(Entrance at 66 W. 12th Street)

Welcome: 9:00 a.m.

• Opening Remarks
• Terri Gordon, The New School

Session I: 9:30-11:15

Foucauldian Feminists on Normalization and Freedom

• Dianna Taylor, John Carroll University, Chair
• Dianna Taylor, John Carroll University, Monstrous Women
• Cressida Heyes, University of Alberta, Canada, Psychopathology and Normalization: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery and Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Ellen Feder, American University, The Dangerous Individual('s) Mother: Biopower and the Production of Race
• Karen Vintges, University of Amsterdam, The Final Foucault's 'Oriental Subtext' and the Emerging Discourse of Islamic Feminism>

Session II: 11:30-12:45

Domestic Institutions: Kinship and "Care for the Self”

• Ann Stoler, The New School for Social Research, Chair
• Miri Rozmarin, Tel Aviv University, Mothering and the Ethos of 'Care for the Self'
• Jacqueline Stevens, University of California at Santa Barbara, The End of Marriage

Lunch Break

Session III: 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Gendered Violence

• Jay Bernstein, The New School for Social Research, Chair
• Johanna Oksala, University of Helsinki, Gender and Violence: Foucaultian Interventions
• Dominque Grisard, University of Basel, Switzerland, "Gendered Terrorism in Mass Media: The Intertwining of Terrorist and Gender Discourses in Swiss Mass Media”

Coffee break 3:30-4:00 p.m.

Session IV: 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Rethinking Foucauldian Ethics

• Catherine Mills, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 'Normal Life'
• Catherine Mills, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 'Normal Life'
• Jana Sawicki, Williams College, Foucault and Sexual Freedom: Should We Embrace an Ethics of Pleasures?
• Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College, "Thus to Kneel:” Will and the Obedient Body

Keynote Address, "In Perpetual Disintegration": 5:30 p.m.

• Ladelle McWhorter, Professor of Philosophy and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Richmond, Virginia
• Author of Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization (Indiana University Press, 1999)

Dinner at Café Loup: 7:00 p.m. 105 W. 13th Street

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