Dr Patricia MacCormack, Reader in Film and Communication, will be presenting a number of plenary and keynote papers at international venues in the coming months.

First, on March 11, she will be guest speaker at the Carnal Aesthetics conference hosted by the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. As part of the conference's focus on the inflections of flesh, art and philosophy she will be discussing 'Mucosal Monsters', which deals with Irigaray's theories of mucosity and feminist interpretations of monstrosity seen in the film Possession by Zulawsky.

Following this she will act as keynote speaker at Bodies in Movement, held at the University of Edinburgh on 28-29 May. This two-day conference recognises that bodies are physical, biological and chemical processes, as well as various embodied discourses and discursive assemblages, and aims to investigate the theoretical, scientific, political, social, subjective, artistic, literary and virtual spaces where these processes occur. Patricia's lecture will deal with ecstasy as movement outside of time.

In April she will also be part of a plenary session at the Human-Animal conference at The University of San Francisco. Her panel will be introducing the new inter-institutional network The Animal Catalyst. This network, formed through links between Anglia Ruskin University, Manchester Metropolitan University and The University of California Santa Barbara, negotiates the political and aesthetic traversals that occur in philosophies of human animality. Her paper will address the concept of grace in thinking animality as an ethics of ecology.

As part of the inauguration of the network she will also be giving stand alone lectures at a number of Californian Universities including UCSB and UCLA, on humanity as abstract animality in aesthetics and desire.

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