The Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Events
Wednesday, 10 December 2025, 19:15
Venue: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Research Group »Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities« (POLY)Lecture
Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
»BodyPracticesWriting: The Challenges of Lived Embodiment«
About the lecture
Long gone seem the times when social sciences and humanities naively (and symptomatically) reproduced such dualisms as mind/body, affect/rationalism, private/public – and others – which were and partly remain constitutive for modern societies and modern science. Embodiment has actually become a, more or less, mainstream perspective in disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, literature studies, history, etc.
In my presentation, I will critically engage with the notion of ›embodiment‹. I will try to disentangle various dimensions of ‚embodiment‘, both in regards to academic analysis and mundane everyday empirical practices. Drawing on phenomenology, practice theory, feminist and further contemporary perspectives, I will argue that while embodiment is never fully writeable, there are in fact productive and creative ways of acknowledging the specificities of ›lived embodiment‹ (Leiblichkeit) in academic writing.
About the speaker
Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky ist Professorin für Allgemeine Soziologie und Gender Studies an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen Geschlechterforschung, Bio- und Körperpolitik, Kultursoziologie sowie in der Soziologie der Pflege- und Sorgearbeit.
Für ihre Arbeit wurde sie mehrfach ausgezeichnet. Neben ihren eigenen Beiträgen und Herausgeberschaften ist sie in verschiedenen Fachgesellschaften, Jurys und Beiräten tätig, unter anderem als Vorsitzende der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (2021-2025). Seit Mai 2023 ist sie Vorsitzende des wissenschaftlichen Beirats des NS-Dokumentationszentrums München.
Organizers
The lecture is organized by the Frankfurt DFG Research Group »Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities« (POLY) in cooperation with the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften.
Registration
Participation on-site
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Participation online via Zoom
Open this link to participate online: https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/67200398907?pwd=VJQJ7JBmFrCSDZqFR3hKaMh88bNQEJ.1
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