Thursday, 08 June 2023
09:00–09:10
Jan Blanc (Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Geneva): Opening Message
09:10–09:30
Vitus Huber (University of Geneva): On Influences and Interdependences of Corporeality and Narrativity: An Introduction
Session 1: The Power of Narratives
Chair: Martin Rueff (University of Geneva)
09:30–10:15
Sarah Toulalan (University of Exeter): “Childish folly:” Representing Sexual Acts Among Children in Seventeenth-Century Pornography
10:15–11:00
Effie Botonaki (University of Thessaloniki): “Fraile” Bodies Writing and Disrupting Life-Narratives
11:00–11:15
Coffee Break
11:15–12:00
Benjamin Steiner (University of Munich): Body and Power: Narratives of the Body in Early Modern Political History
12:00–13:45
Lunch
Session 2: Autobiographic Writing
Chair: Frédéric Tinguely (University of Geneva)
13:45–14:30
Andreas Würgler (University of Geneva): Narrating her Life as an Amazon: Katharina Franziska von Wattenwyl’s Mémoire (1714)
14:30–15:15
Stanis Perez (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord): “Mon ame ne prend autre alarme que la sensible et corporelle:” Les Essais de Montaigne en tant qu'autobiographie corporelle
15:15–15:45
Coffee Break
Session 3: Women's Bodies
Chair: Christine Weder (University of Geneva)
15:45–16:30
Sonia Wigh (University of Exeter): “Delicate lips, wicked words:” Exploring Female Physiognomy in Early Modern South Asia
16:30–17:15
Nadine Amsler (University of Fribourg): The Pregnant Body in the Letters of Empress Maria Theresia to Maria Beatrice d’Este
17:15–18:00
Break
18:00–19:30
Keynote
Chair: Marie Houllemare (University of Geneva)
Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford): The Body of the Peasant and the Story of the Peasants’ War 1524–1526
Dinner
Friday, 09 June 2023
Session 4: Narrating Vulnerability
Chair: Taline Garibian (University of Geneva)
09:00–09:45
Micheline Louis-Courvoisier (University of Geneva): Sensation, expression, transmission du symptôme: la puissance du langage dans la médecine du 18e siècle
09:45–10:30
Nicole Nyffenegger (University of Bern): Shakespeare's Skin Narratives and the Stage
10:30–10:45
Coffee break
Session 5: Colonial Narratives
Chair: Guillemette Bolens (University of Geneva)
10:45–11:30
Robert Folger (University of Heidelberg): Somatic Writing and Colonial Semiosis in Colonial Latin America: The Case of Diego de Landa
11:30–12:15
Aldair Rodrigues (State University of Campinas): Conflict Readings of African Body Markings in the Colonial Archive (Brazil, 18th Century)
12:15–13:00
Final Discussion