BADT Karin (MCF)

Karin Badt is an associate professor in the Centre de Langues (University Paris 8), who teaches Cinema and Arts courses to arts students. Her research interests are in the role of empathy in the reception of art, the reaction of the brain and body to works of art, and the body mythologies that circulate in public discourse. She has written on empathy in contemporary cinema, neuroscience and the film spectator, and the female body and trauma.

Her most recent publications focus on the field of orthodontics and its spread of the mythology that teeth are separate "aesthetic" wholes of no significance to the body.

Most recent work :

  • “The Consequences of Bicuspid Extractions, Part I” Cranio UK, Winter, 2020.
     
  • “The consequences of premolar extractions, part II”, Cranio UK, summer 2020.
     
  • “The Victims of PER Consequences”, invited lecture at the orthodontic conference “Stop Retractive Orthodontics”, September 2020.
     
  • “The Politics of PER Orthodontics”, invited lecture at the international conference of “Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences” August 2020.
     
  • ?"Cinema as a Traumatic Journey", talk given at the "Neuroscience and Film Reception" conference, an international conference that Professor Badt organized at Paris VIII with the support of EA1569, October 2019.
     
  • “Violencia contra las mujeres y trauma : conceptos y representaciones”, lecture given (in Spanish) at the Museo de Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico, March 15, 2018.
     
  • “Trauma and the Films of Lynn Ramsay, Dana Rotberg, Chantal Akerman and Kathryn Bigelow”, talk given at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), March 2017.