Giorno 1 — Lunedì 14 settembre

14 settembre 2026

Programma di apertura e sessioni plenarie

L’intero programma di apertura e delle sessioni plenarie si terrà nell’Auditorium ICT.

Orario	Attività
08:30	Registrazione
09:10	Saluto istituzionale: Rettore dell’Università di Malta
09:20	Saluto dei responsabili del convegno
	Presiede la plenaria: Charlo Camilleri
09:30	David Le Breton Physically Embodying the World [Francese]
10:15	Antonio Staglianò Between Biology and Spirituality: Does Faith Pass through the Body? [Inglese]
11:00	Pausa caffè
11:30	Philippe Cornet Illness in Search of Meaning [Francese]
12:15	Frederic Vandenberghe Thinking through scars, tissues, and tattoos [Inglese]
13:00	Pranzo

Sessioni parallele — pomeriggio del 14 settembre

Orario	Sessione parallela A — Interpretare i corpiLetture, sviluppi e rielaborazioni di David Le Breton · Lingua: mista · Auditorium ICT	Sessione parallela B — Corpi in movimentoCammino, movimento, sensazione e pratiche corporee · Lingua: mista · ICT Livello 0, Blocco B, Aula 1
	Presiede: Charlo Camilleri	Presiede: Raymond Zammit
14:30	Dulce Maria Filgueira de Almeida Donnici Embodiment, Memory, and Reception: David Le Breton’s Sociology of the Body in Brazil [Inglese]	Laura Apolonio [VIDEO] Walking and Drawing the World: The Moving Body as an Aesthetic Practice and Relational Experience [Inglese]
15:00	Esther Gloria Acosta Suárez Resonances and Reflections on the Anthropological Figure of Whiteness in Le Breton, Based on a Research Study [Francese]	Giuseppe Reale The Curvature of the Earth: The Philosophy of Walking according to David Le Breton [Italiano]
15:30	Maria Cecilia de Paula Silva Different Bodies that Enchant Science and Education: A Dialogue with the Work of David Le Breton [Francese]	Alexandru Ofrim and Lucia Terzea-Ofrim Reading while Walking: The Culture of the Body and the Culture of Reading in Greco-Roman Antiquity [Inglese]
16:00	Pausa caffè	Pausa caffè
16:30	Margarita Iglesias Saldaña Women’s History and Some Reflections on the Body in David Le Breton [Francese]	Laurence Rasseneur A Dialogue between Five People with Visual Impairments and the Work of David Le Breton: Sensing the World and In Praise of Walking [Francese]
17:00	Nikolas Zammit The Body as Rupture: Reading Adolescent Gender Dysphoria through David Le Breton [Inglese]	Berfin Su Kazakli [VIDEO] Marked by the Pole: Pain, Discipline, and Affectivity in the Construction of the Pole Dancer’s Body in Turkey [Inglese]
17:30	Fine della sessione	Fine della sessione

Programma sociale

Orario	Attività
18:00	Trasporto verso le Tre Città
18:45	Passeggiata attraverso Isla/Senglea, Bormla/Cospicua e Birgu/Vittoriosa
20:00	Cena — non organizzata

Giorno 2 — Martedì 15 settembre

15 settembre 2026

Mattina — Sessioni parallele

Orario	Corpi socialiIdentità, norme e costruzione culturale delle vite incarnate · Lingua: inglese · Auditorium ICT	Corpi vulnerabiliDisabilità, malattia e politiche della dipendenza corporea · Lingua: inglese · ICT Livello 0, Blocco B, Aula 1
	Presiede: Carlo Calleja	Presiede: Dorianne Buttigieg
09:00	Alex Almeida Reis and Ana Paula Bittencourt Okamoto The Body as the Last Refuge of Subjectivity: Prison Tattoos, Embodiment, and Lived Experience [Inglese]	Claire Azzopardi Lane Women with Disabilities, Violence, and the Politics of the Body in Malta [Inglese]
09:30	Gengfan Chen Menstruation-Related Euphemisms among Chinese Women in Migratory Contexts [Inglese]	Amy Camilleri Zahra Metaphors of the Disabled Body: Social Representations of Women with Disabilities [Inglese]
10:00	Alison Fixsen The Disordered Body in Late Modernity [Inglese]	Rossella Bo Bodies that Speak: Narrative Transformations and Processes of Subjectivation in Psychoanalytic Practice with Patients with Disabilities [Inglese]
10:30	Pausa caffè	Pausa caffè
11:00	Lionel Obadia Augmented and Robotised Bodies: “Farewell to the Body” or “Welcome to the Cyborg”? [Inglese]	Marzia Rossi The Protection of People with Disabilities in the Italian Legal System: Reflections on the Reform concerning the “Individual, Personalised and Participatory Life Plan” as a Right of People with Disabilities [Inglese]
11:30	Raymond Zammit “A Body You Have Prepared for Me”: The Body between Gift and Project [Inglese]	Antonio Cristian Saraiva Paiva The Family as Storytellers of Illness: Toward a Lay Hermeneutics of Alzheimer’s Disease [Inglese]
12:00	Fine della sessione	Fine della sessione

Programma culturale

Orario	Attività
12:15	Pranzo — street food maltese
13:00	Trasporto verso Valletta
13:30	Passeggiata guidata — Parlamento, Giardini Upper Barrakka e Auberge de Castille
14:15	Visita alla Concattedrale di San Giovanni, compresa l’opera di Caravaggio The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
16:00	Trasporto di ritorno all’Università

Sera — Sessioni parallele

Orario	Corpi sofferentiDolore, dissociazione e riconfigurazione del sé corporeo · Lingua: inglese · Auditorium ICT	Corpi e curaMedicina, persona e pratiche di cura · Lingua: italiano · ICT Livello 0, Blocco B, Aula 1	Corpi contesiAutonomia, possessione, silenzio e crisi del corpo · Lingua: francese / inglese · ICT Livello 0, Blocco B, Aula 7
	Presiede: Stefan Attard	Presiede: Pietro Grassi	Presiede: Charlo Camilleri
16:30	Valentine Gourinat The Pain of the Prosthetic Amputated Body: Embodiment, Ordeal, and the Reconfiguration of Meaning [Inglese]	Alessandro Mastinu Embodied Care: Integrating Science, Experience, and Meaning in Contemporary Medicine [Italiano]	Erika Barreto Body, Autonomy, and Interdependence: An Ethnography of Severe Motor Disability [Francese]
17:00	Emily Heavey Embodying Absence: Narrative and the Phantom Limb [Inglese]	Tiziana Stobbione Caring for the Whole Person: Integrating Clinical Practice, Organisational Models, and the Meaning of Healthcare [Italiano]	Laurent Messer Possession and Rheumatology [Francese]
17:30	Sharon Martinelli “It’s All in the Mind”? Embodied Silence and the Separation of Mind and Body in Invisible Illness [Inglese]	Paolo Seminara Mental Illness in Ludwig Binswanger in Light of Bioethical Principles [Italiano]	Kouassi Désiré Amani Le corps-voix : Du langage corporel au silence verbal performatif [Francese]
18:00	Heidi Bickis and Tracey Collett Figures of Fatigue: Exploring the Tired Body [Inglese]	Nausica Cangini Between Body and Meaning: A Cognitivist Reading of Traumatic Experience [Italiano]	Aggée Célestin Lomo Myazhiom Body, Disability, and Vulnerability in David Le Breton [Francese]
18:30	Tracey Cilia and Colette Savage Dissociation, embodiment, and changes in the sense of self through embodied mindfulness practice and contemplative writing/poetry: a hermeneutic autoethnographic approach [Inglese]	Pasquale Peluso Bodies that Speak in Silence: Youth Self-Harm between Self-Directed Deviance, Late-Modern Tensions, and the Search for Embodied Meaning [Inglese]	Meryem Sellami [VIDEO] The Vertigo of Suicide among Young People: Disappearing in Order to Live Better [Francese]
19:00	Fine della sessione	Fine della sessione	Fine della sessione

Programma sociale

Orario	Attività
19:15	Trasporto verso la cena di gruppo
19:45	Cena di gruppo — cucina tradizionale maltese

Giorno 3 — Mercoledì 16 settembre

16 settembre 2026

Mattina — Sessioni parallele

Orario	Corpi sacriRitualità e spiritualità incarnata · Lingua: inglese · ICT Livello 0, Blocco B, Aula 1	Corpi futuriTecnologia, regolamentazione e trasformazione dell’umano · Lingua: mista · Auditorium ICT
	Presiede: Carl Sultana	Presiede: Carlo Calleja
09:00	Dorianne Buttigieg “Now I Am Less Aware of Its Soul than of Its Body”: Joris-Karl Huysmans’s The Cathedral and the Embodiment of Sacred Space as a Living Liturgical Body [Inglese]	Markus Krienke Bodies, Limits, and Vulnerability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking the Human Condition [Inglese]
09:30	Jimmy Bonnici Resignifying the Parish through Embodied Relationality and Online Presence [Inglese]	Stéphanie Mauclair When the Body Becomes Data: The Digital Body, Legal Identity, and Embodiment [Inglese]
10:00	Charlo Camilleri Embodied Mysticism in Performance: Restaging the Passion in Il-Viżjonijiet ta’ Santa Marija Maddalena de Pazzi [Inglese]	Merissa Elizabeth Hickman Governing the Not-Yet-Pregnant: Problematising Preconception Health Policy [Inglese]
10:30	Pausa caffè	Pausa caffè
11:00	Glen Attard Grace beyond Control: Embodiment and the Collapse of Spiritual Mastery [Inglese]	Massimiliano Nisati The “Right to a Dignified Death”: End-of-Life Issues in the Italian Legal System between Legislative Inertia and Constitutional Court Assessments [Italiano]
11:30	Pasquale Giustiniani Body, Gender, and Person: Affirmations and Inhibitions of Corporeality in Selected Ethical and Religious Perspectives [Italiano]	Carlo Simeone The Concept of Environment in the Digital Age [Italiano]
12:00	Cecilia Bastos [VIDEO] Embodied Tradition and Subjective Change in Yoga and Meditation Practices [Inglese]	Ann Lenore Moradian Embodiment, Ethics, and Evolution: What Can We Learn from the Practice of Mindful Movement? [Inglese]
12:30	Fine della sessione parallela	Fine della sessione parallela

Programma conclusivo

Orario	Attività	Aula
	Plenaria conclusiva — Presiede: Carlo Calleja	Auditorium ICT
12:45–13:15	Pietro Grassi Beyond the Message: The Body as a Place of Communication [Italiano]	Auditorium ICT
13:15	Conclusione del Preside della Facoltà — Stefan Attard	Auditorium ICT
13:30	Pranzo

Programma sociale facoltativo

Orario	Attività
14:30	Trasporto verso Ħaġar Qim
16:30	Trasporto di ritorno all’Università
19:00	Cena

Giovedì 17 settembre

Programma sociale facoltativo

Attività
Per questa giornata è prevista una visita a Gozo, isola sorella di Malta. I dettagli saranno comunicati successivamente.