PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRACOW

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Lucas Cranach the Elder (14721553),
Roman Lucretia Committing Suicide, ca. 1500, oil on panel, exhibited in Europeum

KRAKW, Ul. Podchorych 2, room 337
28.05 30.05.2014

Wednesday, 28.05.15, ROOM 337

Registration (14:30-15:00)

15:0018:00 BODY IN LITERATURE (chaired by Marzenna JAKUBCZAK, Pedagogical University of Cracow)

Welcome note by Head of Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Prof. Tadeusz Gadacz

The embodied self: representations of gendered silent bodies in Bengali literature - Sanjukta
DASGUPTA, University of Calcutta

Coffee break (16:00-16:15)

(session chaired by Wojciech SADY, Pedagogical University of Cracow)
Embodiment and disembodiment of the female in three Tagore's poems - Blanka KNOTKOV-
APKOV, MUP & Charles University

Body attractiveness as depicted in Sanskrit epic literature - Iwona MILEWSKA, Jagiellonian University
Thursday, 29.05.2014, ROOM 337

10:0011:30 BODY IN MEDICAL TEXTS (chaired by Krzysztof JAKUBCZAK, Jagiellonian University)
Phenomenology from the outside: bodily being in the earliest Indian medical compendium (Caraka
Samhita) - Chakravarthi RAM-PRASAD, Lancaster University
Treating cough and becoming immortal: Rasyana in Sanskrit medical literature - Dagmar
WUJASTYK, University of Zurich

Coffee break (11:30-12:00)

12:0013:30 BODY IN ART (chaired by Iwona MILEWSKA, Jagiellonian University)
Art and the body: Tatsuno Art Project 2013 - Akiko KASUYA, Kyoto City University of Arts
The image of the body-face: the case of Franz X. Messerschmidt and Bill Viola - Maria POPCZYK,
University of Silesia

Lunch break (13:30-15:00)

15:0017:00 BODY IN PHILOSOPHY (chaired by Jin Y. PARK, American University, Washington DC)
Embodied mind and phenomenal consciousness - Maria VENIERI, University of Crete
Disfigured and communicative bodies: Daoism, Buber, and Lvinas - Eric S. NELSON, University of
Massachusetts Lowell
Round table discussion
Friday, 30.05.2014, ROOM 337

12:0013:30 BODY IN PERFORMANCE (chaired by Anna KARNAT-NAPIERACZ, Pedagogical University of
Cracow)
The covered body: between plaisir and jouissance? The case of classical Indian & Japanese theatre -
Elbieta KODRZAK, University of d
Manifestation of the Kabuki actors sex on the woodblock prints in Edo period - Beata ROMANOWICZ,
National Museum in Krakow

Lunch break (13:45-15:15)

14:3017:45 (chaired by Katarzyna GURCZYSKA-SADY, Pedagogical University of Cracow)
From mortification of the body to the comfort of contemporary design - Elbieta STANISZEWSKA,
Kazimierz Pulaski University of Technology & Humanities
Expression and the stylised clothed body - Ian W. KING, London College of Fashion & University of the
Arts
The ruined migrating bodies - Urszula CHOWANIEC, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University &
University College London

Closing remarks & round table discussion

Transfer by tram & walk to Europeum
(European Culture Center in the Old Granary)

18:30 - a guided tour in a new gallery of the National Museum in Krakw
19:30 - Between the ideal and reality: The human body in the eyes of artists - Janusz WAEK, the Exhibition
Curator