CORPUS, Groupe international d'études culturelles sur le corps organise les 4 et 5 novembre 2010, en partenariat avec l'université de médecine et de pharmacie Victor Babes de Timisoara et l'association d'anthropologie roumaine ACT, un séminaire transdisciplinaire « Acest corp ireal / Ce corps ir-réel ». Au cours de cette rencontre, médecins, anthropologues et spécialistes de diverses formes d'expression aborderont les thèmes de la douleur, des métaphores et des représentations corporelles.

ACEST CORP I-REAL / THIS UN-REAL BODY

Seminar Interdisciplinar / Interdisciplinary Seminar 

Timisoara, November, 4th-5th 2010 

CORPUS

International Group for the Cultural Studies of the Body 

Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babeş din Timişoara 

Asociatia cultural interdisciplinara si antropologie comparata Timisoara 

Thursday, November 4th 

INAUGURAL SESSION, 9 h 00 – 9 h 50 

Reception of the participants & opening speeches.

SESSION 1: ORAL COMMUNICATIONS, 9 h 50 – 13 h 00

Chairpersons: Danina Muntea, Liliana Vasile & Gabriela-Mariana Luca 

• Andrei Motoc (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babeş din Timişoara, Romania), Human Body. An Adventure
• Silvia Mancas (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babeş din Timişoara, Romania), Inima de la totem la cazuistica secolului XXI  
• Corneliu Bucur (Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu, Romania), Blânda memorie a caselor. Casa cu trup şi suflet

Coffee Break 

• George N. Chaldakov (Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria), Neşe Tunçel (Osmangazi University, Turkey), Marin Zhelezov (Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria), Gorana Rančić (University of Niš, Serbia) & Luigi Aloe (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy), Rethinking Body's Wisdom 
• Alexandra Titu (Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara, Romania), Viaţa artificială. Actualitatea unui arhetip 
• Sultana Avram (Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu, Romania),  Aspecte privind păpuşile sacre şi profane 

Lunch  

SESSION 2: POSTERS, 14 h 30 – 15 H 30 

• Liliana E. Vasile (UMFVBT, Romania), M. Florin (Universitatea din Oradea, Romania), Rodica Torok & O. Deleanu (UMFVBT, Romania), Osteoporosis: Past, Present and Future in a Medical Anthropological Vision 
• Cristina Epure (Universitatea Naţională de Arte, Romania), The Body and the City 
• Mihaela Tarhuna (Timis Library, Romania), Bijoux. Corps qui brille, corps qui joue 
• Răzvan Ionescu-Tugui (International Center for Studies into Communism, Romania), "Healing Reactions": Pains, Perceptions and Consciousness for the Members of an Alternative Medicine Center 
• Adrian Sturza (UMFVBT, Romania), Mircea Sturza (Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara, Romania) & Danina Muntean (UMFVBT, Romania), Tobacco Addiction. A Substance Dependence or a Sin 
• Roger Barlow, Hywel Owen & Adina Toader (University of Manchester), Proton Therapy. The Next Cancer Treatment  

Workshops "Make-up art" and "Jewels art" by Lucia Preda & Mihaela Tarhuna

Coffee Break  

SESSION 3: ORAL COMMUNICATIONS, 15 h 45-19 h 00

Chairpersons: Danina M.  Muntea, Natalia Golant, Mircea Stefan Ciuhuta & Jérôme Thomas 

• Shu-Chung Lii (National Tsing-Hwa University, Taiwan), A Preliminary Study of Mong-Sen Belief Complex in Northern Taiwan  
• Natalia Golant (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russia), The North Oltenian Inhabitants' Ideas about the Transformation of a Body into a Vampire 
• Mircea Sturza (Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara, Romania) & Adrian Sturza (UMFVB, Romania), Issues of the Christian Anthropology on the Anthropogenesis, the Man Image and the Likeness of God 
• Constantin Ittu (National Brukenthal Museum, Romania), Corpus Christi: A Religious Symbolism of the Human Body in the Medieval Ritual of Vassalage 
• Danina M. Muntean (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babeş din Timişoara, Romania), Le mythe de la jeunesse éternelle. Une réponse mitochondriale 
• Vlad Florin Vînătu & Alin Florin Totorean (Universitatea Politehnica din Timisoara, Romania), A New Approach in Rebuilding the Human Body. From Cells to Cybernetic, Ethical, Cultural and Religious Considerations 
• Adrian Năznean (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Târgu Mureş, Romania), The Languages of the Body 
• Daniela Catona (Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara, Romania),  New Technologies and Body in Visual Arts 

Coffee Break  

• Alexandru Stefan Dincovici (Scoala Nationala de Studii Politice si Administrative din Bucuresti, Romania), Muscle Fever: Embodied Pain, Embodying Pleasure? 
• Livius Tïrnea (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babeş din Timişoara, Romania), Major Mosquito Vector Diseases. An Anthropological Research 
• Liliana E. Vasile (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babeş din Timişoara, Romania), An Integrative Perspective on the Interpretation of the Microscopic Aspects of Normal and Lesion Tissues on Man 
• Mircea Stefan Ciuhuta (Institute of Anthropology, Romanian Academy), Adrian Florin Secureanu (Universitatea Titu Maiorescu, Romania) & Valentin-Veron Toma (Spitalul clinic Nicolae Malaxa, Romania), Not in Pain, But Still Suffering. Bodily Experiences of Patients Diganosed with Bronchial Asthma in Bucharest 

Cocktail and Private Viewing of the Photo Exhibition  

Friday, November 5th

SESSION 4: ORAL COMMUNICATIONS, 9 h 15 – 12 h 30

Chairpersons: Gheorge Sechesan, Amalia Pavelescu, Daniela Catona,  Mircea Taban, Gabriela-Mariana  Luca & Gudrun Ittu 

• Emilia Tomescu (Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu, Romania), Reprezentări umane ale creaturilor supranaturale din mitologia românească 
• Mircea Taban (Banat Mountain Museum, Romania),  O mito-poetică a corpului 
• Maria-Ioana Alexandrescu (Universitatea din Oradea, Romania), Ubu: le corps souverain 
• Maria Mândroane (Banat Village Museum, Romania), Omul ca fiinţă solară, temporală, atemporală şi dublul său existenţial, umbra 
• Gheorghe Sechesan (USAB, Romania), Metafora corpului uman în balada Mioriţa 

Coffee Break 

• Laura Grunberg (Universitatea din Bucureşti, Romania), Body as information in Surveillance Society  
• Ioan Hategan (Romanian Academy), Homo medievalis  
• Jérôme Thomas (Université de Montpellier, France), Un corps-objet: les parures corporelles amérindiennes  
• Amalia Pavelescu (Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu, Romania), Perspectives to the Body Pain in the Romanian Folklore 

SESSION 5: POSTERS, 14 h 30 – 15 h 30 

• Liliana E. Vasile, Atena Galuscan, Roxana Oancea, Cristian Marchese & Amina Bortun (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babeş din Timişoara, Romania), Boala parodontală prin citodiagnostic oral. Oglinda statutului bio-psiho-social al individului 
• Laurentiu Bala (Universitatea din Craiova, Romania), Le corps humain en argot: le sexe  
• Nicoleta S. Mirica (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babeş din Timişoara, Romania), Le frère animal. Traits de la bête sur le visage de l'homme 
• Oana M. Duicu (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babeş din Timişoara, Romania), Poèmes au bord des mondes dans la lecture d'un médecin  
• Gabriela-Mariana Luca (UMFVBT, Romania), Între lumi. Întrupări ale elementelor primordiale în mitologia românească 
• Stéphanie Bouguet (Université de Bordeaux 3, France), Au nom du père,  aux noms des fils: pour une étude clinique de l'homme de douleur dans l'histoire de l'art

Coffee Break

SESSION 6: ORAL COMMUNICATIONS, 15 h 45 – 19 h 15

Chairpersons: Caroline Giacomoni, Gabriela-Mariana  Luca, Liliana Vasile & Emilia Tomescu 

• Lenuta Giukin (State University of New York, USA), Affaires de ménage(s): Représentations of Power Relationships in French Cinema 
• Gudrun Ittu (Romanian Academy), My Childhood has never lost its drama. The Sculpture of Louise Bourgeois 
• Caroline Giacomoni, Hélène Hoarau, Elisa Venturini & Maïder Melin (CHU de Bordeaux & EHESS/Toulouse, France), Le corps féminin en situation de maladie pelvienne 
• Daniela Elena Stanciu (Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara, Romania), Le corps des générations actuelles et son management durable 
• Carmen Man (Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara, Romania), Percepţia spaţiului prin intermediul corpului uman 
• Doina Beinsan (Genesys Hospital of Arad, Romania), Tipuri de afecţiuni cutanate tratate cu lumină pulsată şi modularea calităţii vieţii la pacienţii trataţi prin intervenţii dermatologice 
• Gabriela-Mariana Luca (UMFVBT, Romania), Le corps maudit. Les maladies orphelines, mauvais rêves sur support de celluloide 

Coffee Break

 Workshops "Make-up art" and "Jewels art" by Lucia Preda & Mihaela Tarhuna 

• Lucia Preda (Teatrul German de Stat, Romania), Metaforele chipului 
• Simona Nicoleta Staicu (UMFVBT, Romania), Metaphors of the Body in Medical Terminology 
• Alexandra Negut (Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara, Romania), Stress and Strategies of Diminution.A Psychological Approach in the Case of Women Diagnosed with Mammary Cancer  
• Andreea Naznean (Colegiul Naţional Unirea, Romania), Deeper Meanings of the Beating Heart  
• Monica Truta & Liliana E. Vasile (UMFVBT, Romania), The Particularities of Processing and Cyto-Histological Interpretation of Normal and Pathological Tissue That Are Exposed to Ionizing Radiation 

Final words  

All the sessions of the symposium will be held at the Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babeş din Timişoara, conference room "Papilian", 3rd floor. This event will be open to interested researchers, students, teachers, artists, journalists, etc. Participation will be free, but an advance registration is recommended. The seminar will be held in the following languages: Romanian, English & French.  

Contact: Gabriela Mariana Luca, seminar.ac.corp@gmail.com 

More information about CORPUS International Group for the Cultural Studies of the Body:

http://corpus.comlu.com