Preliminary Programme

Monday 16 September 2019

11.30 Registration
12.00 Opening
12.30 Keynote Jeffrey Flynn: What’s Wrong With Alleviating Suffering?

14.30-15.30 Panel 1 Negotiating suffering (chair: Victoria Nyst)
-“We always suffer from hunger and nakedness” Disability, social suffering, and international development in Kenya, 1940s-1980s (Sam De Schutter, Leiden University)
-Ambiguities of suffering and coping in Uganda, 1980s-90s (Yolana Pringle, University of Roehampton)

16.00-17.30 Panel 2 Marginal suffering (chair: tba)
-Adapting to suffering: the art and struggle of surviving everyday life with a disability in a ‘participation society’ (Ivonne Hoen, University for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht & Gustaaf Bos, VU University, Amsterdam)
-Social justice and people with intellectual disabilities in contemporary Ukrainian society (Hanna Zaremba-Kosovych, The Ethnology Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
-Pains from the Conflicting Views of Blindness: traditional cultural and scientific views of blindness versus the experiential views of the blind (Thomas Tajo, independent researcher)

Tuesday 17 September 2019

10.00-11.00 Panel 3 Religious suffering (chair: David Kloos)
-Faithful suffering and Christian humanitarianism in rural Zambia (James Wintrup, University of Oslo)
-Holy suffering: the pain of Austrian stigmatics in the 19th-century (Merlijn Gabel, University of Antwerp)

11.30-13.00 Panel 4 Narrating suffering (chair: tba)
-Appropriating Suffering: According Positive Value to the Suffering and the Consequent Realisation – A Case Study of Post-traumatic Growth of Individuals in Literature (Goutam Karmakar, Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College)
-Destroying and creating subjectivity through suffering and pain at the end of life with dementia (Natashe Lemos Dekker, University of Amsterdam)
-Waiting at the end of life: the narrative navigation of care and suffering in Aceh, Indonesia (Annemarie Samuels, Leiden University)

14.30-16.00 Panel 5: Strategic Suffering (chair: Lidewyde Berckmoes)
-Victimhood and the visibility of suffering in the aftermath of road accidents in Italy (Irene Moretti, Leiden University)
-The Suffering of the Violent, Entitled, and Powerful: Using Suffering to Avoid Responsibility (Allysa Lake, Fordham University)
-Suffering responsibility. Moral agency in court cases with disabled convicts (Paul van Trigt, Leiden University)

16.00-17.00 Drinks & bites + closing remarks