The Ethics and Ideologies of Self-Defence

The Ethics and Ideologies of Self-Defence

• Wednesday 6th November 2024.
• Room 0.06, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, 2 Central Square, Cardiff

09.30: Registration and Refreshments

10.00: Paul Bowman (Cardiff Uni): Welcome and Introduction

10.30: Lyn Jehu (Uni of South Wales): It'll Never Work in the Street: Contemporary Karate's Identity Crisis

11.00: Jiongyan Huang (Cardiff Uni): Beyond the Sword: The Shift from Self-Defence to Spirituality in Japanese Martial Arts

11.30: Short Refreshment Break

11.45: Emilly Yuge Li (Cardiff Uni): The Self-Defence of Cultural Hegemony: Marginal Identities and Mainstream Powers

12.15: Bernadette Buckley (Goldsmiths, Uni of London): In Possession of Weapons: Guns and Violences in the Work of Contemporary Women Artists

12.45 Buffet Lunch

13.45: George Jennings (Cardiff Metropolitan Uni): Moving for Self-Defence: Lessons in Wellbeing from Movement Inspired by the Martial Arts (MIMA) Project

14.15: Luke White (Middlesex): Translating the Woman Warrior: Kung Fu Cinema, Self-defence and Feminism in the 1970s

14.45 – Short Refreshment Break

15.00: Peter Katz (California Northstate Uni): 'Society must be self-defended', or: Inside you, there are two dawgs: Self-defense, Power, and the Epistemology of Ignorance

15.30: John Tasker (Cardiff Uni): Can a rear naked choke be Chinese? From TCMA to MMA – the politics of self-defence in contemporary China

16.00: Francis Dodsworth (Kingston Uni): The Self-Defence Scenario: From Print to Playlist

16.30: Paul Bowman (Cardiff Uni): No Laughing Matter? What Comedy Can Teach Us About Self-Defence

17.00 – Ends (drinks, dinner)

Registration is via Eventbrite:
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