Friday 29th May
2015
10:00-10:15 Welcome and Introduction (Marine Authier & Dominique Carlini-Versini)
10:15-11:25 Panel
1: Disgust in Contemporary Fictions (Chair: Barbara Franchi)
Christine Temko (Louvain,
Belgium) ‘“Flesh settles against bone […] but Mexican is sloppier”: Reversing Disgust Ethics and Aesthetics in Eugene Marten’s Waste.’
Sabina Sitoianu (Kent) ‘Spectacle of Disgust: Physical and Sociomoral Disgust
at play in Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)
– a Metaphor for Thatcherite Vulgarity?’
11:50-13:35 Panel 2A: The Impact of Disgust on the Political
Agenda and Lawmaking (Chair: Tom Watts – Grimond seminar room 2)
James F. Downes (Kent/Hong
Kong Baptist) ‘The 2014 European Parliament Elections: The March of the Extreme Right & The Politics of Disgust?’
David Radlett (Kent)
‘On the Motivation of Laws by Disgust.’
Robin Mackenzie (Kent)
‘Cultural Reframing of Sexual Disgust.’
Panel 2B:
Sexuality and Bodily Disgust (Chair: Mélanie Lebon)
Alan Le Grys (Kent)
‘Why is God Disgusted by Sex?’
Sarah-Maria Schober (Basel,
Switzerland) ‘Transcending Disgust. Habituation, Authority and the Decaying Body in Early Modern Anatomy.’
Riccardo Baldissone (Kent/Curtin,
Australia) ‘Disgusting, really? Changing Feelings of Disgust as Witnesses of Human Plasticity.’
14:40-15:50 Panel 3A: Disgust in German Literature (Chair:
Melanie Dilly – Grimond seminar room 2)
Michael Gratzke (Hull)
‘“Der zermanschte Leichnam.” Love and Disgust in the Works of Karen Duve and Wolfgang Herrndorf.’
Massimo Bonifazio (Turin,
Italy) ‘A Disgusting Field. Attitudes towards Food in Günter Grass’ novels The Tin Drum and The
Flounder.’
Panel 3B:
18th Century Fiction and Disgust (Chair:
Joanne Pettitt)
Deborah Ross (Hawaii Pacific,
US) ‘Phillis’s Foul Linen: Sexual Disgust at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century.’
Carson Bergstrom (Salford)
‘History is Shit: Satire, Scatology, and Cognitive Linguistics.’
16:20-17:50 Keynote
address
Roger Giner-Sorolla (Kent) ‘Disgust is Unreasoning for a Reason.’
(Chair: Mathilde Poizat-Amar)
17:50 Wine
reception
Saturday 30th May
2015
10:00-11:10 Panel
4: Disgust in Philosophical Discourses (Chair: David Bremner)
Serene John-Richards (Kent)
‘On Disgust, or Encountering the Subject.’
Martijn Buijs (Johns
Hopkins, US/ENS Paris, France) ‘The Force of Disgust in Rosenkranz’s Ästhetik des Hässlichen.’
11:30-12:40 Panel
5: Disgust and Anthropology (Chair: Marine Authier)
Jason Mast (Warwick)
‘Difference, Distance and Disgust: Deciphering a Strong Sensation.’
Clémence Jullien (Nanterre
la Défense, France) ‘Dealing with Impurities of Childbirth. Contemporary Reconfiguration of Disgust in India.’
13:40-14:50 Panel
6: Psychological Perspectives on Disgust (Chair: Matt Fysh)
Tom Kupfer (Kent)
‘Why are Injuries Disgusting?’
John Sabo & Roger Giner-Sorolla (Kent)
‘The Fictive Pass: Condemnation of Harm, but not Purity, is Mitigated by Fictitious Contexts.’
15:20-16:30 Panel
7: Women and Disgust in Literature and Film (Chair: Dominique Carlini-Versini)
Anna Piliñska (Wroclaw,
Poland) ‘Man Repellents: Adult Women in Nabokov’s, Kubrick;s, and Lyne’s versions of Lolita.’
Katie Jones (St.
Andrews) ‘The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Revolting Women in Contemporary Literature.’
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