Programme
Confirmed participants in alphabetical order
Because we cannot include the full abstracts in the conference brochure, we will publish the abstracts of confirmed participants here.
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- Gulzaar Barn (King's College London): On embodied labour
- Bruce Blackshaw (University of Birmingham): Genetic selective abortion: pushing the boundaries
- Roxanne Burton (University of the West Indies - Barbados): Embodiment in the development of the self and personal identity
- Karamvir Chadha (University of Cambridge): Sexual consent and having sex together
- Nipa Chauhan (University of Toronto): Beneficent paternalism: OB-GYN perspectives regarding permanent contraception for childless, single women under 30
- Parish Conkling (Houston Community College): A gendered view of political violence
- Ralph Early (University of Birmingham): Contested space of the human body as the embodiment of food industry profits
- Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra (University of Edinburgh): The surrogate body as site of regulation
- Jaspal Gharu (University of Birmingham): Is romantic love systematically racist?
- Rianne Houghton (University of Birmingham): Bringing it home: How the homespace can affect women's identity in cases of domestic violence
- Rebecca Howarth (University of Birmingham): The "opposite" sex: Intersexuality and the power of the body
- Luci Hyett (University of Wolverhampton): From forked tongues to Tinkerbell ears: Can biopolitics explain the apathy towards regulation of the alternative body modification industry?
- Omar Kaissi (University of Manchester): Professional intellectual work and body alienation in the neoliberal university
- Ben Kotzee (University of Birmingham): What's wrong with bullshit jobs
- Kathryn MacKay (Lancaster University): Decanting babies: What ectogenesis could mean for women's liberation
- Anastasia Manuilova (Kommersant): Bodies under autocratic rule: a paradox of freedom
- Clint Mason (University of Birmingham): The disembodied dilemma: Is the torture of a mind absent from a body morally permissible?
- Nicole Miglio (San Raffaele University - Milan): Is the gestating subject "split" or "in-between"? Thinking the ambiguity of the pregnant embodiment through the immanence/transcendence dialectic
- Nikos Mylonas (Durham University): Fentanyl of the people: What the opioid epidemic can teach us about the suffering human body
- Sevi Emek Önder (Dokuz Eylül University - Izmir): The embodiment of the individual self: A conceptualization of body in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
- Emma Elizabeth Partlow (University of Birmingham): Disabled bodies at work: The impacts of equalities legislation on disabled people in the workplace
- Hayrunisa Pelge, Tonie Stolberg and Karen Guldberg (University of Birmingham): Exercising a phenomenological attitude as a way of attempting to be ethical when researching the lived experience(s) of the 'other'
- Katharine Pollock (Western Sydney University): Confessing the female body in music: a discussion
- Emily Postan (University of Edinburgh): The embodied research participant: interests beyond interventions
- Alexander Pritchard-Jones (University of Birmingham): Body modification and consent: Prejudice in the higher courts?
- Ájené Robinson-Burris (University of Colorado at Boulder): The standard of care debate - Whose standards? Using a Global Structural Injustice Perspective to Expose Deep-Rooted Injustice
- Helen Ryland (University of Birmingham): Use some body: Embodiment and morality in virtual worlds
- Giovanna Sanchez Nieminen & Janika Miettinen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland): Impacts of digital health technologies to health equity (presented by Janika Miettinen)
- Arianne Shahvisi (Brighton and Sussex Medical School): Consenting to female genital cutting: should reinfibulation be permitted?
- Sadaf Shariat (University of South Wales): Dealing with the questions of property and intellectual property in biotechnological inventions
- Kate Townsend (University of Exeter): Are children's rights bad for mothers?
- Mirjam van der Heide (University of the Witwatersrand): The experience of dignity
- Samuel Walker (Bournemouth University): Realising A Post-Normative Legal System for a Postmodern Era?
- Jacqueline Mae Wallis (University of Bristol): Is it ever morally permissible to select for deafness in one's child?
- Em Walsh (McGill University): How racialization is felt on the skin: Frantz Fanon and the epidermalization of 'Inferiority'
- Brian Wong Yue Shun (University of Oxford): On Eternalism and Rights: Posthumous Rights and Rights of Future Generations
- Franka Zlatic (University of Rijeka): Women's reproductive bodies