I'm thrilled to announce that I am co-organising a symposium at Kingston University with fellow PhD student Anna Argirò.
This two-day, transdisciplinary symposium will explore how renewed attention to the human (and specifically female) body in philosophy, politics, literature and psychosocial studies has paved the way for a rethinking of motherhood, reproductive loss, disability and death beyond the biological category. How does this reflection contribute to naming, elaborating, and making visible concrete aspects of human life in their connection to gender, race, sexuality?
The event will present creative writing, poetic works, lectures and performances that illustrate, inform or question how we represent the visceral body within text and in philosophical /political inquiries when we attempt to give voice to experiences and events that are, by their nature (within cultural frameworks of course) graphic, shocking, bloody, illicit...
Keynote speakers: Professor Lisa Baraitser, poet Rachel Long, Dr Anna McFarlane and Professor Tracey Reynolds
For full details visit our website
The symposium is free to attend, but registration is essential. You can book your place here
This is a Race/Gender Matters and TECHNE event
