Being Human: Individualism and the Self from the Renaissance to the 21st Century
Conference Programme - Saturday, 22 February
| 9.00 - 9.25 | Registration & Coffee in FAB3.57 |
| 9.25 - 9.30 | Welcome & Introduction in FAB2.43 |
| SESSION ONE: Historiography, Philosophy, & the World Today, chaired by Luke Robert Mason |
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| 09.30 - 09.50 | Valentino Placanica, 'Diasporic Identities and the Birth of Modern Individualism: Rethinking Renaissance Historiography' |
| 09.50 - 10.10 | Ionut Untea, 'Time, Myth, Populism, and the Modern Quarrel of the Political Self with History' |
| 10.10 - 10.30 | Katharina Hartinger, 'Economic Effects of Individualism: Innovation, Creativity, and Sustainability' |
| 10.30 - 10.50 | Session 1 Panel Q&A |
| 10.50 - 11.50 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Roger Smith, 'Ensoulment in a Time of Embodiment' |
| 11.50 - 13.00 | Lunch in FAB3.57 |
| SESSION TWO: Mind, Body, & Technology, chaired by Mathew Thomson | |
| 13.00 - 13.20 | Mia Edwards, 'Emotion and Environmental Impacts upon the Body in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South' |
| 13.20 - 13.40 | Joseph Price, 'Constructing the Sexual Self at University: Students, Autonomy, and Responsible Sexuality in a Postwar British University' |
| 13.40 - 14.00 | Henry Shevlin, 'Anthropomorphism and Anthropomimesis in Contemporary AI' |
| 14.00 - 14.20 | Session 2 Panel Q&A |
| 14.20 - 14.50 | Tea & Coffee in FAB3.57 |
| 14.50 - 15.50 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Roger Cooter, 'Eating Cats and Finding Rats: A Singular Search for "Identity"' |
| SESSION THREE: Race & Colonialism, chaired by Benjamin Smith | |
| 15.50 - 16.10 | Kiera Evans, 'Biological Determinism and the Development of British Eugenic Thought' |
| 16.10 - 16.30 | Lewis Twiby, '"Todos Comen Steak": One Man's History, Hegemony, and Change Along the US-Mexican Border' |
| 16.30 - 16.50 | Philippe Le Goff, 'Decolonial Humanism' |
| 16.50 - 17.10 | Sebastian Blanco Leyton, 'Sylvia Wynter, Zapatistas, and Being Human: From Renaissance Man/Human to Pluriversal Subjectivities' |
| 17.10 - 17.30 | Session 3 Panel Q&A |
| 17.30 - 18.00 | Roundtable & Closing Remarks: Roger Cooter, Roger Smith, & Claudia Stein |
| 18.00 - 19.00 | Reception in FAB3.57 |
This conference is supported by the Humanities Research Centre at the University of Warwick and is organised by History PhD Candidates Mia EdwardsLink opens in a new window (Mia.Edwards@warwick.ac.uk), Himesh MehtaLink opens in a new window (H.Mehta.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Anna PravdicaLink opens in a new window (Anna.Pravdica@warwick.ac.uk).
If you have any questions or want to get involved in some capacity, please get in touch using the contact details below.
