Le 9e symposium international de CORPUS groupe international d'études culturelles sur le corps aura lieu à Taipei du 24 au 26 mai prochain. Organisé avec l'académie Sinica et l'université nationale des arts de Taiwan, il rassemblera des intervenants venus d'une dizaine de pays sur le thème « Éducation du corps et apprentissage culturel ».

Programme 

Friday, May 24th

9 h 00 – 10 h 30, Opening Session

International Conference Room, Taipei National University of the Arts

Chung-shiuan Chang, Vice President of the TNUA (TNUA, Taiwan)

Introduction words

• Frédéric Duhart, General Coordinator of CORPUS (Mondragon University, Spain), CORPUS from Paris to Taipei. A Scientific Project in Action
• Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard University, United States of America), Keynote speech: The Shape of the History of the Body

Coffee break

10 h 40 – 12 h 10, Session 1

Moderator: Shuenn-Der Yu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

• Chi-fang Chao (Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan), The Suffering Dancers and the Moving/Moved Body: Narratives of Transformation of Contemporary Dancers in Taiwan
• Yolanda van Ede (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Dancers in Limbo: Body Techniques and Stigmatization in Transition from Dancehall to Ballroom in Manila
• Tzu-ting Wang (Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan), “Body as Culture”. As Seen through the Bodily Cultivation of Legend Lin Dance Theater

Lunch

13 h 40 – 15 h 10, Session 2a/Session 2b

• Session 2a: International Conference Room
• Session 2b: C302

Session 2a

Moderator: Shu-Min Huang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

• Mei-ling Chien (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), Listening, Hearing and Learning in the Fieldwork of Night-Time Courting Custom among the Hmub in East Guizhou
• Ksenia Gusarova (Independent scholar, Russia), Learning to See, Learning to Act: Cleanliness and Hygiene in Early-Twentieth-Century Russia
• Hsin-Jung Liu (Tamkang University, Taiwan), Spatial Discipline on Hygiene of Body: a Short History of Space Governance at the Early Stage of Taipei after WWII.
• Zhao-hua Ho (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan), It Is Not Heavy; It Is Light on My Feet - Shidong Miao Silver Clothes and Value

Session 2b

Moderator: Hsun Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

• Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza (Linfield College, United States of America), Kiai! The Body in Philosophy of Sport through the Eyes of Japanese Philosophy - A Critical Overview
• Liang Ting (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), The Taoist Body and Namelessness in the Lao Tzu
• Jow-jiun Gong (Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan), The Hands of Pao-Din the Chef: Self-Cultivation, Subjectivation and Bio-Politics
• Chun Felix Huang (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan), Dynamic Meditation and Mysticism – Osho’s Techniques of Cultivation as the Focus of Discussion

coffee break

15 h 30 – 17 h 00, Session 3a/Session 3b

• Session 3a: International Conference Room
• Session 3b: C302

Session 3a

Moderator: Frédéric Duhart (Mondragon University, Spain)

• Marc L. Moskowitz (University of South Carolina, United States of America), Becoming Men: Weiqi, Children’s Training, and Disciplinary Structures in Contemporary China
• Marie Potapushkina-Delfosse (University of Maine, France), Enhancing Memory through Gesture in Primary School Foreign Language Instruction
• Hsueh-cheng Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Beyond Taste Relativism: How Tea Competition is Possible

Session 3b

Moderator: Mei-ling Chien (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

• Chien-yu Lin (Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan), A Preliminary Study of LMA Applying to Early Intervention of Autism
• Yi-jia Tsai (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan), Spirit Medium’s Body and Carpenter’s Saw: Meditations on Interpenetration of Body and Tool
• Shu-jung Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), From Self-Cultivation to Mental Disorder: Body and Illness Experiences of Psychiatric Patients in Taiwan.
• José Luis Grosso (National University of Catamarca, Argentina), Oblivion Saves Other Histories in Bodies. Post-Colonial Semiopraxis, Denegation Politics and Cultural Learning

Saturday, May 25th

9 h 00 – 10 h 30, Session 4

International Conference Room, Taipei National University of the Arts

Moderator: Salomé Deboos (University of Strasbourg, France)

• Sara K. Schneider (National Louis University, United States of America), Yoga as the Practice of Freedom: Bodily Cultivation in an Inmate-Directed Prison Yoga Community
• Tarik Mesli (University of South-Toulon /University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France), Embodiment Concept of Mastery into “shugyō” Being an Ascetic practice Aiming Civilization Process of Ninjutsu Understood as Nindō
• Bruno Beljak (University of Zagreb, Croatia), Life Long Study: My Journey towards Xing Yi Quan (Form-intention boxing)
• Shae Zukiwsky (York University, Canada), Resistance: in Practice, in Process, and as Metaphor

Coffee break

10 h 40-12 h 10, Session 5

International Conference Room

Moderator: Shu-jung Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

• Salomé Deboos (University of Strasbourg, France) Becoming a Buddhist Monk. The Case of the Gelugpa Sect in Zanskar (Indian Himalaya)
• Peter Kaiser (University of Bremen, Germany) Body Language, Mind flow: Sexuality in the Religion
• Alexander Novik (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Virgjëreshët – Sworn Virgins of the Northern Albanian Alps: Memory of Body

Lunch

13 h 30 – 15 h 00, Session 6

International Conference Room

Moderator: José Luis Grosso (National University of Catamarca)

• Ya-ning Kao (National Chengchi University, Taiwan), Travel on Horseback: Zhuang Female Ritual Specialist’s Bodily Training
• Szu-ching Chang (National Taiwan University of Physical Education and Sport, Taiwan), The Site of Remembrance: Sensational Body in Baishatun Mazu Pilgrimage
• Bi-ming Tsai (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), When Zhuangzi Meets Tal Ben-Shahar: Zhuangzi’s Course on Happiness—And the Interrelation of Situation, Mood, and Bodily Sense
• Alessandro Lazzarelli (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Effortless Action and Spontaneity: Learning Daoist Ideals through Bodily Cultivation

 Coffee break

 13 h 20 – 17 h 00, Session 7

International Conference Room

Moderator: Chi-fang Chao (Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan)

• Shuenn-der Yu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Learning to be a Tea Art Practitioner: a Self-Reflection from an Anthropological Point of View 
• Koji Sonoda (Kyoto University, Japan), Embodied Teaching in a Hunter-Gatherer Society: A Case Study of the Baka in Eastern Cameroon
• Haruka Okui (Kyoto University, Japan), The Complex and Tacit Structures Underpinning Bodily Skills: Training for Awaji Puppet Theatre
• Scott Writer (Monash University, Australia), “Relying on Heaven”: Sensory Learning and Non-Human Agency in Artisan Taiwanese Tea Production

Conclusion

Sunday, May 26th

Excursion to Jiufen and Convivial Debates

Contacts:

• CORPUS General Coordinator Frédéric Duhart frederic.duhart@wanadoo.fr
• 9th Symposium Coordinators Shuenn-Der Yu yusd5644@gate.sinica.edu.tw
• Meiling Chien mmmchien@mail2000.com.tw
• Yi-ting Hu corpustaiwan@gmail.com

More information about CORPUS and its activities: http://corpus.comlu.com