The international colloquium dedicated to exploring embodied lives and the meanings of the body, Embodied Lives: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on the Body brings together scholars and practitioners from across the humanities, social sciences, arts, and health-related fields to reflect on the body as lived, experienced, and socially meaningful.

The conference is inspired by the work of David Le Breton, whose contributions to the sociology and anthropology of the body have profoundly shaped contemporary thinking on pain, silence, identity, risk, vulnerability, adolescence, and communication. His work offers a rich framework for understanding how bodily experience mediates between the individual and the social world, challenging purely biological or abstract accounts of human existence.

Embodied Lives welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, arts, medical humanities, disability studies, education, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and related fields. The conference provides a space for theoretical reflection, empirical research, and creative or practice-based approaches that engage with the body as a site of meaning, expression, and ethical relation.

By foregrounding lived experience, the conference aims to create conversations that cross disciplinary boundaries and encourage new ways of thinking about embodiment in contemporary societies. Through papers, discussions, and alternative formats of scholarly exchange, Embodied Lives seeks to deepen understanding of how bodies are shaped by social, cultural, political, and ethical contexts, and how embodied experience, in turn, shapes ways of knowing, relating, and acting in the world.