For a full description of each paper please refer to the Abstract Booklet in your delegate pack. Tuesday 31st March 08:30 REGISTRATION Beswick Foyer, with Tea and Coffee in the Marketplace, Beswick 001/3 09:10 PLENARY: Room: Beswick 017 Chair: Emma L. E. Rees (University of Chester) Vice-Chancellor & Principal, Professor T J Wheeler: WELCOME to Talking Bodies 2015 at the University of Chester 09:30 PANEL 1 (Parallel sessions 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d) Talking Captive Bodies Room: Beswick 017 Chair: Anna Mackenzie (University of Chester) 1a1 Gemma Ahearne (Leeds Beckett University), The Imprisoned Body: Female Sex Workers’ Experiences of Prison 1a2 Kirsty Greenwood (Keele University), ‘Transforming’ female sexual identities in Liverpool Female Penitentiary (1809-1921) Talking Artificial Bodies Room: Beswick 001/1 Chair: 1b1 Gul Dag (University of Hull), The Mind Modified: Analysing Cybernetic Reformations in George Alec Effinger’s ‘Marîd Audran’ Series 1b2 Esther De Dauw (University of Leicester), Iron Man and the Artificial Body Talking Sacred Bodies Room: Cloisters 102 Chair: 1c1 Jerry Coats (Tarrant County College, Arlington, Texas), The Sinful Body and Redemption in Las Cantigas de Santa Maria 1c2 Immanuel Mifsud (University of Malta), ‘I would not dare to paint’: poets’ ineptitudes and inhibitions in illustrating the Madonna’s body Straight Talking Bodies? Room: Beswick 013 Chair: 1d1 Simone Wolfgang, Denise Portinari & Patricia Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), The WHO’s Recommendation that all Gay Men take PrEPs (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxes) 1d2 Reza Arjmand & Ihsan Zakri (Lund University, Sweden), Straight-Acting Among Arab Gays: Strategies of Using the Body as a Means of Social Interaction Among Arab Gays in Sweden 10:30 Tea and Coffee Marketplace, Beswick 001/3 11:00 PANEL 2 (Parallel sessions 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d) Talking Bodies on Show (1) Room: Beswick 001/1 Chair: Anna Mackenzie (University of Chester) 2a1 Lin Elinor Pettersson (University of Málaga, Spain), The Somatechnics of Enfreakment: Literary Articulations of the Body 2a2 Ian McKay (University of Chester), Museums of the macabre: morbid curiosities of medicine and the body 2a3 Tatjana Pavlov-West (Universität Tübingen and University of Pretoria), Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B: Bodies Speaking or Bodies Spoken For? Talking Online Bodies Room: Beswick 017 Chair: Garjan Sterk (University of Applied Science, Amsterdam) 2b1 Emma Deeks (Edge Hill University), Blogging the Body: The (Dis)Embodied Female User 2b2 Anna Kurpaska (??), Gender, age and sexuality in online self-presentations of older women on social networking and photo-sharing sites 2b3 Indrani Ashe (??), The Unconventional Woman meets the Matrix: Online Dating and the Commodification of the Self Talking Uncanny Bodies Room: Beswick 013 Chair: 2c1 Catherine T. Niehaus (University of Edinburgh), Anatomy of the Uncanny: Hans Bellmer’s Transgressive Manipulation of Female Corporeality in Die Pupee 2c2 Jake Pyne (McMaster University), The Heart and the Other Parts: On Gender NonConforming Children and the Act of Seeing, Being Seen and Being Taught to See 2c3 Chia-wen Kuo (Veronique Kwak, Taiwan’s National Cheng-chi University), Sacredness, Profanity and the Defiled Body: the Oneiric Dimension in the ‘Black Dahlia’ Murder (1947) 2c4 Judy Hayden (University of Tampa, Florida), Disney’s Tangled Bodies Talking Sexual Desire Room: Cloisters 102 Chair: 2d1 Michael J Harrison (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania), Exploring the Reality of Berta’s Sexual Victimization: Analyzing the Intersection of Sexuality and Disability in Javier Marías’s A Heart So White 2d2 Raluca Parvu (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) & Minhea Panu (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada), Bourgeois Sex Fantasies 2d3 Hanna Etholén (University of Helsinki, Finland), Desiring, Desirable Women: the Embodiment of Ideal Hetero-Femininity and Female Sexual Desire in Erotic Novels 13:00 LUNCH White’s Dining Hall 14:00 PLENARY: Room: Beswick 017 Chair: Emma L. E. Rees (University of Chester) Anna McNay (art writer & editor, DIVA magazine) & Leena McCall (artist) #EroticCensorship: The Case of Leena McCall’s Portrait of Ms Ruby May, Standing 15:00 PANEL 3 (Parallel sessions 3a, 3b, 3c and 3d) Talking Nude Bodies Room: Cloisters 102 Chair: 3a1 Jennifer Dyer (Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland), Noisy Bodies: Getting to Know the New Female Nude 3a2 Adel Sliti (University of Manouba, Tunisia), ‘Standing Female Nude’: Meta-Signs of a Disassembled Body Talking Orgasmic Bodies Room: Beswick 001/1 Chair: 2 3b1 Krystina Osborne (Liverpool John Moores University), Is Masturbation Having a Moment? Female Autoeroticism in Contemporary Women’s Writing 3b2 Jessica Day (??), Hauntological Orgasms and Heterotopic Spaces: the Spectacle of Female Pleasure in Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction Talking Bodies Of Colour Room: Beswick 013 Chair: 3c1 Garjan Sterk (University of Applied Science, Amsterdam), Reading from the black female body: the biological and the political in dealing with meaning 3c2 Ope Lori (artist and academic, UK), ‘I Want Me Some Brown Sugar’: Power and Desire Through A Racial Lens Talking Bodies Performing Femininity Room: Beswick 017 Chair: Dawn Woolley (Royal College of Art, London) 3d1 Catherine Girodet (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III, France), Polly Jean Harvey and the Feminine Grotesque: Destabilising Gender Archetypes and Reclaiming Female Sexuality 3d2 Chloё Hynes (University of Chester), Hair, Make-Up & Heels: An Investigation into Playing Woman Through the Broken Telephone 16:00 Tea and Coffee Marketplace, Beswick 001/3 16:30 PANEL 4 (Parallel sessions 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d) Talking Literary Bodies (1) Room: Beswick 017 Chair: Mohammed Al-shamiri (Jazan University, Saudi Arabia), 4a1 Ingrid Galtung (University of Agder, Norway), The Body as Narratological Category in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight 4a2 Linda Rhinehart (Aberystwyth University), The Body as the Way to the Spirit in the Work of Two Contemporary Ecopoets 4a3 Madison Durapau (Tarrant County College Southeast Campus, Texas), Beyond Anima/Animus: A Psychosexual Approach to Fe/Male Relationships in Jack London’s Short Story ‘The Night-Born’ 4a4 Graham Atkin (University of Chester), Grotesque Bodies, Grotesque Minds: Carson McCullers and the Carnival Imagination Talking Embodied Selves (1) Room: Beswick 001/1 Chair: 4b1 Sian Bride (University of Winchester), Lesbians and Tattoos: Cesare Lombroso and The Deviant Body 4b2 Gina Snooks (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Ink: Entangling Flesh and Spirit 4b3 Aoife Sadlier (King’s College London), Evoking the Female ‘Asexual’: Narrating the Silenced Self 4b4 Amanda T. Mc Intyre (??), Erotica and the Embodied Self: An Investigation of how Responses to Erotica are Related to the Understanding and Projection of the Embodied Self Body Politics and Politic Bodies Room: Cloisters 102 Chair: 4c1 Kate Lonie (University of Sydney), The Gendered Agenda of ‘Authenticity’: Leadership and Media Engagement in Recent Australian Federal Politics 3 4c2 Rachel Moseley-Wood (University of the West Indies, Jamaica), Lurking in the Subtext: Homoerotic Tension in Third World Cop 4c3 Fernanda Coutinho (Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro), ‘My body, my ideas, my history, and my life’: Trajectories of Body Modification in the São Paulo Body Mods Tribe 4c4 Judith Conrads (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen), Gender Switching at the Crossroads of Body and Society Talking ‘Able’ and ‘Disabled’ Bodies Room: Beswick 013 Chair: Alex Tankard (University of Chester), 4d1 Kitty Nichols (University of Sheffield), Overlooked bodies in research: thinking about the gendered bodies of researchers in fieldwork 4d2 Inge Blockmans (Ghent University, Belgium), The interplay between (non-)communication about sexuality in private and public contexts and sexual experiences and sexual well-being in women with spinal cord injury (SCI) 4d3 Craig D. Johnson (University of Lancaster), Is this a ‘Normal’ body? Bodily Identity and Disability 4d4 Maria Tsakiri (University of Stirling ), The Charm of the Disabled Body 18:30 Workshop: Room: Beswick 001/3 Host: Sandra Hopkins (University of Chester) BELLYDANCING FOR BEGINNERS (All delegates welcome, regardless of mobility or belly) 19:30 DINNER (Residential delegates only; White’s Dining Hall) 21:00 FEMINIST PUB QUIZ! Room: Campus Pub Host: Richard E. Wilson (University of Chester) (with poetry from Pat Macleod (Middlesex University), Sex Critical: An Ode to Self-Reflexivity in the Study of Queer Feminist Porn) Wednesday 1st April 09:30 PANEL 5 (Parallel sessions 5a, 5b, 5c and 5d) Talking Dissenting Bodies Room: Beswick 001/1 Chair: 5a1 Sabiha Allouche (SOAS, University of London), Walk the Talk? Visuality and the Limits of Sexual Dissidence in the Context of Lebanon 5a2 Mehran Rezaei (SOAS, University of London), The Politics and Challenges of Covering Bodies in Iran Talking Obscene/Ob-seen Bodies Room: Beswick 013 Chair: 5b1 Julia Rodriguez Gallego (University of the Arts, London), The Dissector’s Cut, the Holy Wound and the Vagina: Research through Artistic Practice 4 5b2 Lawrence Buttigieg (Loughborough University), Representing the Female Other Through the Obscene TALKING MINDS @ TALKING BODIES (1) Room: Cloisters 102 Chair: Ali Hutchinson (University of Chester) 5c1 Hilary Cave (Writer, Oxford), One step beyond – how I left madness behind by going completely out of my mind (& slipping into something infinitely more comfortable) 5c2 Eileen J. Pollard (University of Chester), Mad and Bad Bodies at the Fin de Siècle and the New Millennium Talking Body Language Room: Beswick 017 Chair: 5d1 Guilherme Altmayer & Denise Portinari (Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro), Tropiqueer 5d2 Mónica García-Fernández (University of Oviedo, Spain), Gender Metaphors and the Dissemination of Biological Knowledge about the Body in Franco’s Spain 10:30 Tea and Coffee Marketplace, Beswick 001/3 11:00 PANEL 6 (Parallel sessions 6a, 6b, 6c and 6d) Talking Literary Bodies (2) Room: Beswick 013 Chair: Craig D. Johnson (University of Lancaster) 6a1 Nandi Weder (University of Pretoria), Rewriting the Body: A Critical Re-Construction of Gender and Sexual Identity in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body 6a2 Marcin Sroczyński (University of Warsaw, Poland), Two Worlds Apart: Mapping the Homosexual Bodily Universe in Alan Hollinghurst’s Swimming Pool Library Talking Bodies Across & Between Room: Beswick 017 Chair: 6b1 Chris Greenough (University of Birmingham), Alyce in Genderland: Intersex, Sex and God 6b2 Marzia Mauriello (Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples), Imagining Miss Trans: An Anthropological Investigation of Transgender Beauty Contests in Naples TALKING MINDS @ TALKING BODIES (2) Room: Beswick 001/1 Chair: Ali Hutchinson (University of Chester) 6c1 Lina Casadó Marín (University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, & University of Lancaster), Exploring the Boundaries of ‘non-suicidal self-injury’ 6c2 Carly Speed (Liverpool John Moores University), Deaths of Detained Patients: A Critical Exploration Talking Bodies Taking Up Space (1) Room: Cloisters 102 Chair: 6d1 Dawn Woolley (Royal College of Art, London), Bodies That Shout 6d2 Anya Heise-von der Lippe (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen / Freie Universität, Berlin), ‘Making a spectacle out of herself’: Taking up Space and Identity Constructions at the Intersections of Fat-, Feminist- and Freak-Embodiment 12 noon PLENARY: Room: Beswick 017 Chair: Emma L. E. Rees (University of Chester) Susan Hogan (Professor of Cultural Studies & Art Therapy, University of Derby, & 5 Professorial Fellow, Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham) FILM PREMIERE: Mothers Make Art 13:30 LUNCH White’s Dining Hall 15:00 PANEL 7 (Parallel sessions 7a, 7b, 7c and 7d) Talking Maternal Bodies Room: Cloisters 102 Chair: 7a1 Jennifer Dawn Whitney (Cardiff University), Bringing Up Barbie: Plastic Pregnancies in Popular Culture 7a2 Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester), Maternality Matters: Self Disclosure, Reflexivity, and Researching ‘Motherhood’ Talking Bodies on Film (1) Room: Beswick 001/1 Chair: 7b1 Marios Psarras (Queen Mary, University of London), Unapologetic Incest: Troubling Sexuality and Kinship through the ‘Greek Weird Wave’ 7b2 Gabriel S. Estrada (California State University, Long Beach), Nádleehí: The Transgender Navajo Body in Drunktown’s Finest (2014) TALKING MINDS @ TALKING BODIES (3) Room: Beswick 013 Chair: Eileen J. Pollard (University of Chester) 7c1 Ali Hutchinson (University of Chester), ‘Meaningless Smears Approach Serious Art’: The Paradox of the ‘Mad’ Artist 7c2 Anna Orhanen (Researcher, writer, photographer), ‘These portions of spaces were in me before’: Breathing the Self in Rainer Maria Rilke and Dylan Thomas Talking Bodies Taking Up Space (2) Room: Beswick 017 Chair: 7d1 tbc ‘Something I want to say’: Tom Daley, Social Media, and (Metro)Sexual Ambiguity 7d2 Denise Portinari (with Simone Wolfgang, Patricia Ferreira, & Guilherme Altmayer, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro), The Gentrification of Queerness 16:00 Tea and Coffee Marketplace, Beswick 001/3 16:30 PANEL 8 (Parallel sessions 8a, 8b, 8c and 8d) Talking Bodies on Show (2) Room: Beswick 013 Chair: ET (freelance researcher and writer) 8a1 Mark Edward (Edge Hill University, Ormskirk), Surely you’re not still prancing about on stage at your age? 8a2 Mara Mandradjieff (Kennesaw State University, Georgia), Constructing and Becoming the Performing Body 8a3 Dean Garratt (University of Chester), Queer and Uncanny: A Cultural Critique of Female Natural Bodybuilding 6 8a4 Fides Matzdorf & Ramen Sen (Sheffield Hallam University & the Health and Social Care Information Centre, Leeds), Dancing Bodies = Talking Bodies: Leader-Follower Conversation in Space (Re)Presenting Bodies Room: Beswick 001/1 Chair: 8b1 Sally Atkin (photographer, Chester), Talking through Children’s Bodies: the Manipulation of the Image in Photographic Portraiture 8b2 Stefanie Elrick (scholar, writer, performance artist), ‘Written in Skin’: Flesh as a Feminist Language Frontier 8b3 Crow Dillon-Parkin (Central St Martins, London), Hashtag Be Real 8b4 Terri-Jane Dow (??), Following the Rules Talking Vaginas Room: Beswick 017 Chair: Emma L. E. Rees (University of Chester) 8c1 Sharon Orshalimy & Orly Benjamin (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Medicalised Representations of the Functioning Heterosexual Feminine Body: a Vestibulitis-Centred Investigation of Women’s Struggle 8c2 Caroline Chappell (University of Chester), Eradicating Mutilation: Attempts to Relegate Female Genital Mutilation to the Pages of History 8c3 Tina Bedenik (University College Dublin), Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves? The Theoretical Framing of Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery Talking Embodied Selves (3) Room: Cloisters 102 Chair: 8d1 Irena Loveikaite (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland), Bodies in, with and through Secrets During Research 8d2 Rebecca Birrell (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘One must have myriad eyes’: Carolee Schneemann’s Fuses 8d3 Brian J Morrison (University of Central Lancashire), The F(ph)allacy of Physical Strength: an Interrogation into Hegemonic Masculinity via Contemporary Art 8d4 Lucy Aphramor (‘Well Founded’, performance poet), Poet: Dietitian – The Power of the Morphed Performative to Transgress Body Shame 18:30 PLENARY: Room: Beswick 017 Chair: Emma L. E. Rees (University of Chester) Mark Edward (Edge Hill University, Ormskirk) Council House Movie Star 19:30 CONFERENCE BANQUET (All delegates; White’s Dining Hall) 21:00 PLENARY: On Not Doing It: a Panel On/Of the Unfulfilled Room: Beswick 017 Chair: Eriini Kartsaki (Anglia Ruskin University), Not Knowing What To Do With Myself: Promiscuity, Excess and the Insatiable Desire R Justin Hunt (University of Lincoln), Sex Lingers Johanna Linsley (University of Roehampton) Impotence: an Exercise in Endurance 7 Sophie Robinson (University of East Anglia), Negative Incapability Thursday 2nd April 09:30 PANEL 9 (Parallel sessions 9a, 9b, 9c and 9d) Talking Bodies on Film (2) Room: Beswick 017 Chair: 9a1 Alex Tankard (University of Chester), Homophobia, Contagion, Violence and Tenderness in Historical Films: the Actor’s Emaciated Body on Screen 9a2 Bruno Marques & Luís Santo Vaz (History of Art Institute/NOVA, Lisbon, Portugal, & Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Portugal), Blow Job: Disappointment and Transgression in Andy Warhol’s Cinema Talking Literary Bodies (3) Room: Beswick 001/1 Chair: Anya Heise-von der Lippe (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) 9b1 Hazel Monforton (University of Durham), Reclaiming the Mother: A Room of One’s Own, To The Lighthouse, and Women’s Genealogy 9b2 Sandra Mills (University of Hull), ‘Fitted me up with a uterus of my own’: Altered Bodies and Gender Transformations in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve Talking Queer Bodies Room: Cloisters 102 Chair: 9c1 Mandy Beck (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany), Leaving the Rest Unspoken: On Sexual Fluidity and Body Language in Elizabeth Bowen’s Writing 9c2 Amy Finlay (Queen’s University, Belfast), The Queer Body in Emma Donoghue’s Irish Closet Talking Early Modern Bodies Room: Beswick 013 Chair: 9d1 Anna Mackenzie (University of Chester), Talking about Shakespearean Bodies 9d2 Thomas Wroblewski (University of Glasgow), The Sabbath Eroticised: Exploring Sexual Deviance and Morality in Early Modern French Demonology 10:45 Tea and Coffee Marketplace, Beswick 001/3 11:30 PANEL 10 (Parallel sessions 10a, 10b, 10c and 10d) Talking Embodied Selves (2) Room: Beswick 017 Chair: Emma L. E. Rees (University of Chester) 10a1 Rim Khaled (University of Tunis), Race, Gender, and Taboo in Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf 10a2 Pippa Sterk (University of Sussex), Black Bodies: how Feminist Popular Culture has Failed People of Colour 8 10a3 Sonja Boon (Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador), Dusting for Fingerprints: Bodily Traces, Embodied Memories, and the Forensic Self 10a4 Emma Sheppard (Edge Hill University, Ormskirk), Feel the Pain: the Unexpected SideEffects of Asking Personal Questions Talking Talking Bodies Room: Cloisters 102 Chair: 10b1 Mohammed Ahmad A. AL-shamiri (Jazan University, Saudi Arabia), Body Modifications in Charles Dickens’s Hard Times 10b2 Vicky Shandil (The University of the South Pacific, Fiji ), Gendering Through Songs: An Analysis of Gender Discourse and Performativity in Indo-Fijian Vivah Ke Geet (Wedding Songs) 10b3 Irmgard Steckdaub-Muller (University Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany) Talk and its Functions within Body Work Talking Bodily Taboos Room: Beswick 013 Chair: 10c1 Jessica Folio (University of Reunion Island, France), A Hypnotising Dance of Bodies: the Case of Stephen King 10c2 Weronika E. Ciborowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland), Sexual Activity in Late Adulthood 10c3 Ángela Lavilla Cañedo (University of Sheffield), The Bloody Corpora of Diamela Eltit and Cristina Peri Rossi 10c4 Melisa Trujillo (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge), ‘The last truly dangerous thing’: Young Feminist Women and Their Body Hair Removal Practices 13:30 PLENARY: Room: Beswick 017 Chair: Emma L. E. Rees (University of Chester) A Roundtable Discussion: ‘TERF’ Wars & Fractured Feminism 14:30 Conference close 9