culture meets surgery - Zentrum für Literatur

culture meets surgery - Zentrum für Literatur

culture meets surgery
Annual Conference
Center for Literary and
Cultural Research
Images, Models, and Interpretations
of the Human Skull
Although surgical techniques of cranial reconstruction have advanced
in recent years, altering a person’s head shape by operating on cranial
bones is still a serious intervention into the body, especially for children. Yet, what constitutes the physical outcome of the intervention – i.e.
the ›normal‹ head shape – and why it is of significance to the individual
patient is rarely discussed in the medical literature, making the procedure difficult to plan, perform, evaluate, and teach. Thus, surgeons must
rely on their subjective judgement when it comes to ›correcting‹ cranial
deformities. What constitutes this judgement when medical textbooks
fail at this point?
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
Schützenstraße 18 · 10117 Berlin · Tel.: +49 · (0)30 · 20 192 – 173 · Fax: – 154
kommunikation@zfl-berlin.org · www.zfl-berlin.org · Direktorin: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Sigrid Weigel
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order to examine the cultural and epistemological premises of shaping
the human head and to discuss current practises of plastic surgery in
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There seems to be an implicit cultural knowledge which guides surgeons
and patients’ families when judging a head as ›normal‹ or ›deformed‹, and
this is also the case in most fields of plastic surgery. This knowledge may
be informed as much by professional expertise or personal experience
as by popular beliefs and representations in the media. Drawing to light
what is entailed in such judgements seems an essential basis for making
the decision to operate.
November
8 – 10, 2012
Venue Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung
Schützenstr. 18 · 10117 Berlin · Trajekte-Tagungsraum 308 / 310
Friday, Nov. 9
Chair: Ernst-Johannes Haberl
9.30 Matt Jones San Francisco
The quick character read.
Designing heads for animated films
Hans-Florian Zeilhofer Basel
The art of planning and performing
cranio-maxillofacial surgery
11.30 Break
Chair: Sigrid Weigel
12.00 Uta Kornmeier ZfL
Michelangelo’s scalpel.
Proportion studies in classical art and
contemporary surgical literature
Stefan Zachow ZIB Berlin
Program
Three-dimensional morphometry.
Building an objective for surgical
reconstruction of cranial deformities
14.00 Break
Chair: Volker Hess
15.00 Christine Hanke Potsdam
5,371 measures of a skull. Medial
practices in 1900 physical anthropology
Thursday, Nov. 8
16.00 Introduction
Ernst-Johannes Haberl Charité Berlin
Sigrid Weigel ZfL
James T. Goodrich New York
Manipulating cranial bones.
A cultural and surgical survey
17.30 Break
Chair: Uta Kornmeier
18.00 Martin Kemp Oxford
Feeling bullish?
Reading and representing faces in the
visual arts from the Renaissance to now
Simon Strick ZfL
Children’s cranial deformation.
A 19th-century genealogy
17.00 Break
Chair: Simon Strick
17.30 Nichola Rumsey Bristol
Perceptions of facial differences.
What motivates people to seek
cosmetic surgery?
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Atlanta
Extraordinary faces
Saturday, Nov. 10
9.00 Working Breakfast
Please register for this event with
Sarah Affenzeller ([email protected])
Frame-based cranial reconstruction
Presenter:
Ernst-Johannes Haberl Charité Berlin
Chair: Uta Kornmeier
11.00 Jeanette Kohl Riverside
Busts and bones.
Sculpted heads in the Renaissance
Sigrid Weigel ZfL
Carl Gustav Carus and the symbolic
interpretation of the human shape
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Chair: Simon Strick
14.00 Richard Neave Manchester
Uncertainties of soft tissue prediction
in facial reconstruction
Thomas Schnalke /
Andreas Winkelmann Charité Berlin
Skull research.
Dealing with »human remains« in view
of recent restitution demands
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Collaborating with the
humanities: A challenge for
plastic surgery?
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Mark R. Proctor Boston
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