International Scientific Conference: Body under threat: Body in history psychology and law.
23 – 24 November 2022
Faculty of Law and Administration
University of Gdańsk
Auditorium B (23 XI), Auditorium C (24 XI) Jana Bażyńskiego 6, 80-980 Gdańsk
23.XI. 2022 WEDNESDAY
AUDITORIUM B
8.30 – 9.00
Registration
9.00 – 10.30
Opening the conference and key speakers‘s lectures
Moderator: prof. Beata Możejko (University of Gdańsk)
Prof. Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia, Norwich)
Wound Man: The History, Psychology, and Law of a Surgical Image
Prof. Daniela Rywiková (University of Ostrava)
Medieval Bodies: Normativity and Malformations of the Fallen World
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
11.00 – 13.20
Panel I
Moderator: Daniela Rywiková, University of Ostrava
11.00 – 11.20
PhD Karolina Morawska (University of Warsaw)
Ad earum ubera catulos applicare non horruerit. Female body and marital debt in Kadłubek’s Chronica Polonorum
11.20 – 11.40
MA Kalina Słaboszowska (University of Warsaw)
Dying of sadness. Emotions and the body in the „Annales” of Jan Długosz (1415–1480)
11.40 – 12.00
Prof. Sylwia Konarska-Zimnicka (Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce)
The body afflicted by diseases as reflected in Cracow astrological texts of the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries
12.00 – 12.20
PhD Agnieszka Szwach (Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce)
Prof. Beata Wojciechowska (Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce)
Women and insanity in English Renaissance Drama
12.20 – 12.40
Prof. Katarzyna Szmigiero (Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce) Bra-burners and corseted ladies. Female body, underwear and feminism
12.40 – 13.00
Prof. Jerzy Zajadło (University of Gdańsk)
Human Body as Cargo. One Case from the History, Psychology and Law of Slavery
13.00 – 13.20
PhD Kamila Kocańda (Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce)
Selected ethical and legal dilemmas concerning the human body in the early stages of life and after death
13.20 – 13.50
Discussion
13.50 – 15.00
Lunch
15.00 – 16.00
Panel II
Moderator: PhD Agnieszka Szwach, Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce
15.00 – 15.20
Prof. Maria Starnawska (Siedlce University of Natural
Sciences and Humanities)
Tormented and glorified body – the example of St. Adalbert and St. Stanislaus
15.20 – 15.40
MA Karolina Białas (University of Warsaw)
The Most Dangerous, because the Most Carnal? The Sense of Touch in the Monastic Sources from the 10th to the 12th Century
15.40 – 16.00
Prof. Zofia Wilk-Woś (School of Banking in Toruń)
A thing about diseases of the body and mind of the archbishops of Gniezno
16.00- 16.30
Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30
Panel III
Moderator: Prof. Jerzy Zajadło, University of Gdańsk
16.30 – 16.50
PhD Marcin Michalak (University of Gdańsk)
My body, my decision? The intricate paths of the historical evolution of a patient’s informed consent to treatment
16.50 – 17.10
MA Martin Šorm (Czech Academy of Sciences – Charles University)
Threats to the body in history textbooks
17.10 – 17.30
Prof. Jacek Friedrich (University of Gdańsk, National Museum in Gdańsk)
Representations of the body in children’s illustration of communist Poland
17.30 – 18.00
Discussion
19.00
Dinner
24.XI. 2022 THURSDAY
AUDITORIUM C
9.00 – 11.00
Panel IV
Moderator: Prof. Beata Możejko, University of Gdańsk
9.00 – 9.40
Prof. Andrzej Wypustek (University of Wrocław)
Intermingling bodies: toward a study of ‘orgies’ in the Greco-Roman world (key lecture)
9.40 – 10.00
PhD Filip Taterka (Polish Academy of Sciences)
‘Think of Your Corpse!’: Attitudes towards Dead Body in Ancient Egypt
10.00 – 10.20
Prof. Łukasz Różycki (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Late Roman military discipline between social control system
and individual penalties
10.20 – 10.40
MA Ioannis Siopis (Byzantine Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
The unexpected horrible death of Arius in post-Byzantine art
10.40 – 11.00
PhD Aleksandra Jaśniewicz-Downes (University of Wrocław)
Public executions in 17th century Batavia Nova: an account by
Gottfried Dreyer from Gdańsk
11.00 – 11.15
Discussion
11.15 – 11.45
Coffee break
11.45 – 14.05
Panel V
AUDITORIUM C
Moderator: Prof. Kamil Zeidler, University of Gdańsk
11.45 – 12.05
Prof. Jakub Morawiec (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Body kennings and their significance for skaldic art
12.05 – 12.25
Prof. Jerzy Jankau (Medical University of Gdańsk)
Mamma Carcinomatosa: allegory of sin and virtue, contribution
to the analyzes of Antony Moeller’s The Last Judgment
12.25 – 12.45
MA Mathilde van den Bosch (University of Amsterdam)
The Bathing Women of the Old Testament: An Iconographical Research into the Medieval Imagery of Susanna and Bathsheba
12.45 – 13.05
Prof. Wendelien van Welie-Vink (University of Amsterdam)
Sacred or Scandalous? How to Approach Depictions of Genitals in Medieval Art
13.05 – 13.25
MA Huib Iserief (University of Amsterdam)
The Body of Christ as a Sacrifice to Pagan Gods?: Mattathias Killing of a Jew in a Dutch Bible Historiale of the 15th Century
13.25 – 13.45
Prof. Andrzej Woziński, (University of Gdańsk)
A body trapped in stone or a living stone. Case of grisaille paintings by Hans Memling
13.45 – 14.05
MA Paula Chmielowska (University of Gdańsk)
How roman codes started punishing carnality- few words on human body in ancient art and law
14.05 – 14.20
Discussion
14.20 –15.30
Lunch
15.30 – 16.30
Panel VI
Moderator: Prof. Kamil Zeidler, University of Gdańsk
15.30 – 15.50
Prof. Dariusz Kaczor, (University of Gdańsk)
Bruises, bumps and bloody wounds. Body injuries to victims of physical violence in Danzig in the 16th−17th century
15.50 –16.10
PhD Marcin Baranowski (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
Matters of the body in the world of Napoleon’s soldiers
16.10 – 16.30
PhD Piotr Derengowski (University of Gdańsk)
Punishments in the Union Army during the Civil War (1861–1865) in the light of army regulations and proceedings of the general courts-martial case files of 9th Corps of the Army of the Potomac
16.30 – 17.00
Discussion and remarks
Organizing Committee:
Prof. dr hab. Beata Możejko, University of Gdańsk, Memling Reaserch Centre at UG
Prof. dr hab. Kamil Zeidler, University of Gdańsk, Memling Reaserch Centre at UG
MA Joanna Kamień, University of Gdańsk
Prof. dr hab. Beata Wojciechowska, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce
Dr hab. prof. UJK Sylwia Konarska-Zimnicka, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce
