Autumn Term 2015
16:30 - 19:00
10-11 Pavilion Parade, BN2 1RA
University of Brighton
Room TBC
Joanna Bourke Workshop 4th-5th November
Elaine Scarry Conference 10th-11th December
This reading course explores the themes of ‘Pain, Violence and Representation’ primarily through the work of Joanna Bourke and Elaine Scarry. Weeks 1-5 will cover Bourke’s work on pain, sexual violence and weaponry, and in week 6 Bourke will attend the university for a two-day workshop on the material that we have covered. During weeks 7-11 we will conduct a close reading of Scarry’s classic text The Body in Pain, which will culminate in week 11 with a two-day international conference marking the text’s thirtieth anniversary, during which Scarry and Bourke will deliver keynote lectures. As well as the material of Bourke and Scarry, many of the weeks also include an additional article by a different academic (some of whom will be in attendance at the conference) on a similar theme to the week’s reading.
The reading course and the workshop with Joanna Bourke are free to attend, however participants will need to register interest (places are limited). For the Elaine Scarry conference participants will need to register and pay separately (information on registration forthcoming). Registration for the Elaine Scarry conference will be £100 for waged attendees, or £25 for unwaged / students.
To register for the reading course and for more information, please contact Tim Huzar (T.Huzar@brighton.ac.uk) or Anthony Leaker (A.Leaker@brighton.ac.uk).
Week 1 - 28th September
Joanna Bourke, The Story of Pain, Chapters 1-4
Amelia Jones, ‘Performing the Wounded Body’
Week 2 - 5th October
The Story of Pain, Chapters 5-9
Elizabeth Dauphinée, ‘The Politics of the Body in Pain: Reading the Ethics of Imagery’
Week 3 - 12th October
Joanna Bourke, ‘A Global History of Sexual Violence from the Nineteenth Century to the Present’
Robin May Schott, ‘Pain, Abjection, and Political Emotion’
Week 4 - 19th October
Joanna Bourke, unpublished monograph on ‘weaponry’
Week 5 - 26th October
Joanna Bourke, unpublished monograph on ‘weaponry’
Week 6 - 4th-5th November, Joanna Bourke Workshop
No reading for this week
Week 7 - 9th November
Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain, ‘Introduction’ and Chapter 1: ‘The Structure of Torture’
Idelbar Avelar, ‘From Plato to Pinochet: Torture, Confession and the History of Truth’
Week 8 - 16th November
The Body in Pain, Chapter 2: ‘The Structure of War’
Lauren Wilcox, 'Dying is Not Permitted: Sovereignty, Biopower, and Force-Feeding at Guantánamo Bay'
Week 9 - 23rd November
The Body in Pain, Chapter 3: ‘Pain and Imagining’
Charlotte Heath-Kelly, ‘Killing in the Name: Inflicting Political Injury’
Week 10 - 30th November
The Body in Pain, Chapter 4: ‘The Structure of Belief and Its Modulation into Material Making’
Wendy Lee, ‘On the (im)materiality of violence: Subjects, bodies, and the experience of pain’
Week 11 - 7th December
The Body in Pain, Chapter 5: ‘The Interior Structure of the Artifact’
10th-11th December, Conference: Re-engaging The Body in Pain
Keynotes from Elaine Scarry and Joanna Bourke, presentations from Schott, Lee, Heath-Kelly, Wilcox et al.
16:30 - 19:00
10-11 Pavilion Parade, BN2 1RA
University of Brighton
Room TBC
Joanna Bourke Workshop 4th-5th November
Elaine Scarry Conference 10th-11th December
This reading course explores the themes of ‘Pain, Violence and Representation’ primarily through the work of Joanna Bourke and Elaine Scarry. Weeks 1-5 will cover Bourke’s work on pain, sexual violence and weaponry, and in week 6 Bourke will attend the university for a two-day workshop on the material that we have covered. During weeks 7-11 we will conduct a close reading of Scarry’s classic text The Body in Pain, which will culminate in week 11 with a two-day international conference marking the text’s thirtieth anniversary, during which Scarry and Bourke will deliver keynote lectures. As well as the material of Bourke and Scarry, many of the weeks also include an additional article by a different academic (some of whom will be in attendance at the conference) on a similar theme to the week’s reading.
The reading course and the workshop with Joanna Bourke are free to attend, however participants will need to register interest (places are limited). For the Elaine Scarry conference participants will need to register and pay separately (information on registration forthcoming). Registration for the Elaine Scarry conference will be £100 for waged attendees, or £25 for unwaged / students.
To register for the reading course and for more information, please contact Tim Huzar (T.Huzar@brighton.ac.uk) or Anthony Leaker (A.Leaker@brighton.ac.uk).
Week 1 - 28th September
Joanna Bourke, The Story of Pain, Chapters 1-4
Amelia Jones, ‘Performing the Wounded Body’
Week 2 - 5th October
The Story of Pain, Chapters 5-9
Elizabeth Dauphinée, ‘The Politics of the Body in Pain: Reading the Ethics of Imagery’
Week 3 - 12th October
Joanna Bourke, ‘A Global History of Sexual Violence from the Nineteenth Century to the Present’
Robin May Schott, ‘Pain, Abjection, and Political Emotion’
Week 4 - 19th October
Joanna Bourke, unpublished monograph on ‘weaponry’
Week 5 - 26th October
Joanna Bourke, unpublished monograph on ‘weaponry’
Week 6 - 4th-5th November, Joanna Bourke Workshop
No reading for this week
Week 7 - 9th November
Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain, ‘Introduction’ and Chapter 1: ‘The Structure of Torture’
Idelbar Avelar, ‘From Plato to Pinochet: Torture, Confession and the History of Truth’
Week 8 - 16th November
The Body in Pain, Chapter 2: ‘The Structure of War’
Lauren Wilcox, 'Dying is Not Permitted: Sovereignty, Biopower, and Force-Feeding at Guantánamo Bay'
Week 9 - 23rd November
The Body in Pain, Chapter 3: ‘Pain and Imagining’
Charlotte Heath-Kelly, ‘Killing in the Name: Inflicting Political Injury’
Week 10 - 30th November
The Body in Pain, Chapter 4: ‘The Structure of Belief and Its Modulation into Material Making’
Wendy Lee, ‘On the (im)materiality of violence: Subjects, bodies, and the experience of pain’
Week 11 - 7th December
The Body in Pain, Chapter 5: ‘The Interior Structure of the Artifact’
10th-11th December, Conference: Re-engaging The Body in Pain
Keynotes from Elaine Scarry and Joanna Bourke, presentations from Schott, Lee, Heath-Kelly, Wilcox et al.
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