Excess? Images of Body, Health, Morality and Emotions across the Media

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Excess? Images of Body, Health, Morality and Emotions across the Media

Veranstalter
ERC Project “The Healthy Self as Body Capital. Individuals, Market-Based Societies, and Body Politics in Visual Twentieth Century Europe” and Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin/Center for the History of Emotions
Veranstaltungsort
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin
Ort
Berlin
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
07.06.2018 - 08.06.2018
Deadline
05.06.2016
Website
Von
Sandra Schnädelbach

The concept of excess is ambivalent: It can signify phenomena ranging from certain religious practices to drug abuse to aspects of consumer culture; it can be an empowering self-description or a stigmatizing judgment. This openness is also reflected in a variety of closely related terms that are sometimes shared by multiple languages, such as “ecstasy,” “exstase,” and “Ekstase” in English, French, and German, but which might also be associated with divergent concepts like “frenzy,” “ivresse,” or “Rausch.” The workshop seeks to analyze these facets of excess and asks how excess has been perceived and constructed in different media. How are understandings and measurements of risk and security reflected in varying conceptions of excess? How can contemporary conceptions of the “preventive self”, the “exhausted self”, or the “stressed self” be confirmed, challenged, extended through historical perspectives on excess? The workshop aims to explore how images of the body, health, morality and emotions varied over history, across cultures, and how the media themselves have contributed to the ways in which the concept of excess has been shaped and used.

If you would like to attend, please send a mail to schnaedelbach@mpib-berlin.mpg.de by 05.06.18

Programm

Thursday, June 7th

09:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-10.30 Introduction

Panel 1: Religion, Cult, 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, Univerity 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

20.00 Dinner

Friday, June 8th

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, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin,
Training Health by Training Trust: Excessive Emotions as Risks Factors in GDR TV

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

Round Table Discussion
14.45-15.30 Commentary: Anja Laukötter

Kontakt

Sandra Schnädelbach
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions
Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin

schnaedelbach@mpib-berlin.mpg.de