Program > Plenary speakers

Samuel LEZE, Associate Professor in anthropology of sciences, ENS de Lyon, France

Samuel Lézé is a Medical Anthropologist and Associate Professor at the ENS de Lyon in France since 2010. His research is particularly oriented towards mental health issues in coordinating the development of the DSM research team (IHRIM, UMR CNRS 5317) and research program “Telling Mental health today” (MSH-PN, USR 3258). Drawing on ethnography and historical epistemology he aims at examining the link between the political and moral context of a major social transition in France and the local, moral and emotional conceptions of self and personhood in clinical setting. He has been carrying a series of case studies on clinical authority in private and public practice of clinicians in focusing more specifically to the central place of psychoanalysis. His PhD was on the Authority of Psychoanalysts in France (Puf, 2010) and he developed then studies on Clinical judgment formation in Prison, Trial and Education (published in Social Sciences and Medicine). With Didier Fassin he edited Moral anthropology, a critical anthology (Routledge, 2014) and his last book is a cultural analysis between France and the US about the “Freud Wars” (Puf, 2017). 

Dominique MEMMI, Director of Research at CNRS, Cresppa-CSU, France 

Dominique Memmi is Director of Research in Social Sciences at the CNRS in Paris. Author of a dozen books, numerous articles and reviews, she is interested in the physical aspect of social life. Amongst her recent works are: Le dégoût, envers du social, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016 (with E. Taieb and G. Raveneau) and La revanche de la chair. Essai sur les nouveaux supports de l'identité, Seuil, 2014.

Ingyu OH, Professor, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan 

Ingyu Oh is Professor of Korean & Japanese Cultural Industries at Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan. Before coming to Japan, he held professorial and other positions at Korea University, Bristol Business School, UC Berkeley, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, University of Waikato, and University of Oregon. He has published numerous books, monographs, and journal articles in the area of Hallyu, pop culture industries, innovation, and globalization. He is the former President of the World Association for Hallyu Studies, Editor of Culture and Empathy: An International Journal of Sociology, Psychology, and Cultural Studies, and Associate Editor of Asia Pacific Business Review

Janice RADWAY, Professor of Communication Studies and Professor of American studies and gender studies, Northwestern University, USA

Janice Radway is a professor of literature and history at Duke University in Durham, as well as a literary critic. She is also the author of a study on romance reading in the United States (1984 and 1991). 

Helen WOOD, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Lancaster University, UK

Helen Wood is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University. Her work studies the relationships between gender, class and inequality, particularly in television contents and their reception. Her recent books include : Feminist Media Studies (2018)