Coord.: Susana SÁNCHEZ FERRO (Madrid Institute for Advanced Study / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) y Luis GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ (École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques / Casa de Velázquez, Madrid)
Org.: Madrid Institute for Advanced Study, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Casa de Velázquez - École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques
Monday 29th september - 16:00 - 19:00
Venue :
- Casa de Velázquez
C/ Paul Guinard, 3
Madrid - Ciudad Universitaria
Free admission subject to availability of seats
The seminar will also be available online here
Language: spanish & english
Presentation
The seminar Human/Non-human: superhuman, human, subhuman proposes a critical reflection on the boundaries and redefinitions of the human through various historical, political, scientific, and cultural contexts. Starting from unsettling images such as Le Cauchemar by Eugène Thivier, the presentations will address figures of transhumanism, contemporary dehumanization, and the limits of the political and symbolic body.
From enhanced brains to exploitable bodies, including the display of the dying dictator, different forms of dismantling the human condition will be analyzed. The second session will transport us to the Golden Age and the confessional era, exploring the demonic and the anti-Christian as figures that strain the concept of humanity. It is an interdisciplinary gathering that invites us to consider the instability of the idea of the “human.”
Programme
16:00 - Opening
Nancy BERTHIER
Director of Casa de Velázquez
16:15-17:30
Cristina NOMBELA
Former MIAS Fellow – Tomás y Valiente (UAM)
Neurocerebros: ¿mejora humana o pérdida de humanidad?
María HERNÁNDEZ CARRETERO
MIAS Fellow – Tomás y Valiente (UAM)
Disposable bodies. Dehumanising migrant workers through
the normalisation of exploitable labour practices
Nancy BERTHIER
Casa de Velázquez
Lo posthumano antes de la muerte: Franco entubado, Franco expuesto
18:00-19:00
Luis GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ
Casa de Velázquez
Polymorfismo demoniaco en la literatura española de los siglos XVI y XVII
Constanza CAVALLERO
Former MIAS Fellow – Marcel Bataillon
La humanidad del Anticristo
Disputas doctrinales y conflictividad política en la era confesional
