A workshop organized by CEFRES PhD Students Filip Herza, Magdalena Cabaj and Katalin Pataki
Time & Venue: from 2 to 5 pm at CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3
Language: English
A barber shaving a man who looks extremely fearful. Lithograph by L. Boilly after himself.
By: Louis-Léopold Boilly
Program
Session I
Discussant: Sabine ARNAUD (Centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS)
2.00: Filip Herza (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University – CEFRES): Faces of Normative Masculinity: Shaving Practices and the Popular Exhibitions of “Hairy Wonders” in the early 20th Century Prague
2:25: Magdalena Cabaj (Warsaw University / ENS Ulm – CEFRES): Dear Herculine, Dear Aaron: From the Angel to the Beast. On Two Cases of Hermaphroditic Writing
2:50: Discussion
— Coffee Break —
Session II
Discussants:
- Veronika ČAPSKÁ (Department of Historical Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)
- Karel ČERNÝ (Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University)
3.30: Katalin Pataki (Central European University – CEFRES): Medical Expertise in Service of Joseph II’s Monastic Reforms’
3:55: Adam Mézes (Central European University): ‘Seen and Discovered’ – the Diagnosis of Vampirism in 1730-1750’s Habsburg Empire
4.20: Discussion