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Wednesday, 10 December 2025, 19:15Venue: 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 is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Her research focuses on gender studies, biopolitics and body politics, cultural sociology, and the sociology of nursing and care work.
She has received numerous awards for her work. In addition to her own contributions and publications, she is active in various professional associations, juries, and advisory boards, including as chair of the German Sociological Association (2021-2025). Since May 2023, she has chaired the academic Advisory Board of the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.
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