The disjunctive image of pain and suffering is today too often regarded as simply ’emotive’, an expression like any other. The Hurt(ful) Body examines early modern and eighteenth-century visual culture at large, addressing key manifestations of the hurt and hurt-causing body and setting up a dialogue between various academic disciplines.
Keynote Speakers
Christian BIET (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre – La Défense) & Jonathan SAWDAY (Saint Louis University)
The conference is organised with the support of: Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS), Université Libre de Bruxelles, MuCiA.
Organisation: Tomas Macsotay (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Karel Vanhaesebrouck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Kornee van der Haven (UGent)
To register, please send an email to hurtfulbody@hotmail.be
See more at: http://www.hurtfulbody.ugent.be/programme