# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Somateknika II: Eċċess / Somatechnics II: Excess
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (+02:00)
- **Event Description**: WIPSS - Work in Progress Seminar Series - Faculty of Arts

Title: Somateknika II: Eċċess / Somatechnics II: Excess
Presenters:  Dr Omar N’Shea & Dr Niki Young
Date: Thursday 23 April 5-7pm
Venur: Faculty of Arts Library, 2nd Floor, Old Humanities Building, University of Malta, Msida
Convenors: Prof Michael Briguglio, Dr Francois Zammit, Dr Dylan Cassar, Dr Niki Young

Seminar will be in Maltese but interpretation services will be provided. 

MALTI: Somateknika II: Eċċess  
F’dan is-seminar, Omar N’Shea u Niki Young se jkunu qed jargumentaw li l-eċċessi tal-ġisem mhumiex patoloġiji, kif jesprimihom il-qafas tar-regolazzjoni soċjo-ekonomika u medika, iżda huma espressjoni fundamentali tal-ħajja li kontinwament jirreżistu il-ħtif mid-diskors kontemporanju tal-produttività u l-futurità riproduttiva. Omar jibda billi jħares lejn il-ġisem queer f’Malta fis-sebgħinijiet u t-tmeninijiet lil hinn mill-oġġett anatomiku u juża lenti awtoteoretika biex jibda jressaqu lejn ġisem li jista jitqies bħala arkivju storiku-politiku ħaj mimli affetti somatiċi tal-ikkampjar, l-erotiżmu, u l-esperimentazzjoni ormonali. Dawn l-affetti, jgħid Omar, nistgħu naqrawhom bħala forom ta’ infiq sovran, eċċessi li joħorġu mill-ġisem waqt li nkunu qed noħolqu temporalitajiet ġodda ta’ preżent kontinwu li jirrifjutaw l-akkumulazzjoni kapitali u l-futurità. Niki se jkun qed jibni fuq ix-xoghol ta’Alphonso Lingis billi mill-premessa li x-xewqa mhijiex kollox u li l-ħajja hija kkostitwita mill-eċċess. Il-problema politika, skontu, hija l-kwistjoni ta’ x’għandu jsir minn dan l-eċċess li s-soċjetà tipprova torganizza u trażżan permezz ta’ patologiji varji. Niki jargumenta li l-passjoni, ċjoè dik il-forza attiva u eċċessiva ġġenerata mill-ġisem, tfixkel dan l-ordni soċjo-politiku, u toħloq preżent intensifikat li jikxef vitalità aktar profonda tal-ħajja li la tista titnaqqas f’sempliċi utilità u lanqas f’koordinazzjoni soċjali.

ENGLISH: Somatechnics II: Excess
In this seminar, Omar N’Shea and Niki Young will be arguing that bodily excesses are not pathologies, as usually framed within socio-economic and medical regulatory frameworks, but are instead fundamental expressions of life that continuously resist capture by contemporary discourses of productivity and reproductive futurity. Omar begins by looking through an auto-theoretical lens at the queer body in Malta in the 1970s and 1980s, treating the body not as an anatomical object but rather as something that may resemble a living historical-political archive filled with somatic affects of camp, eroticism, and hormonal experimentation. According to Omar, we can read these affects as forms of sovereign expenditure, excesses emanating from bodies as they create new temporalities within a continuous present while refusing accumulation and futurity. Niki will then build on the work of Alphonso Lingis, starting from the premise that life is constituted by a positive excess rather than the negativity of desire. The political problem, in his view, becomes what to do with the excess that society tries to organise and contain through various pathologies. Niki argues that passion, that is, the active and excessive force generated by the body, tends to disrupt the socio-political order and produces an intensified present that reveals a deeper vitality of life, one that cannot be reduced either to mere utility or social coordination.

Omar N’Shea huwa storiku kulturali li fir-riċerka tiegħu jiffoka fuq l-istorja tal-ġeneru u tat-teknoloġiji tal-ġisem fil-Mediterran u fil-Lvant Nofsani. L-aktar ktieb reċenti tiegħu, Es Sidr, ġie ppubblikat minn Aphroconfuso f’Novembru 2025, u l-ktieb ġdid tiegħu, Bur Mgħeż, se jkun qed jiġi ppubblikat minn Aphroconfuso stess dan is-sajf. Omar huwa wkoll l-editur tal-volum Exploring Gender Dynamics across the Ancient Near East, li se jiġi ppubblikat minn Zaphon fil-ġimgħat li ġejjin. Omar huwa id-Direttur tal-Iskola Internazzjonali għall-Studji tal-Bażi fl-Università ta’ Malta u huwa wkoll iċ-Chair tal-CREA (Committee for Race and Ethnic Affairs) fl-istess università.

Omar N’Shea is a cultural historian whose research focuses on gender and the technologies of the body in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. His most recent book, Es Sidr, was published by Aphroconfuso in November 2025, and his new book, Bur Mgħeż, will be published by the same press this summer. He is also the editor of the upcoming volume Exploring Gender Dynamics across the Ancient Near East, to be published by Zaphon in the coming weeks. In addition, Omar serves as the Director of the University of Malta’s International School for Foundation Studies and chairs the University of Malta’s Committee on Race and Ethnic Affairs.

Niki Young lettur tal-filosofija fl-Università ta’ Malta, fejn jgħallem suġġetti bħall-filosofija ta’ l-annimali, l-ontoloġija soċjali, u l-postumaniżmu. L-interessi filosofiċi tiegħu jiffokaw fuq il-ħsieb kontinentali tas-seklu għoxrin u wieħed u għoxrin, b’enfasi partikolari fuq l-inkorporazzjoni tal-ideat tas-seklu għoxrin f’oqsma kontemporanji ta’ riċerka bħal dawk tal-postumanizmu, l-istudji dwar l-annimali, kif ukoll forom ġodda u spekulattivi ta’ realiżmu u materjaliżmu.

Niki Young lectures philosophy at the University of Malta, where he teaches on topics such as the philosophy of animals, social ontology, and posthumanism. His philosophical interests centre around 20th and 21st Century Continental thought, with a special focus on the incorporation of 20th century ideas into contemporary fields of research such as those of Post-humanism, Animal Studies, as well as New and Speculative forms of Realism and Materialism.
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- **city**: Msida
- **state**: MA
- **country**: Malta
- **location**: University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq, MSD2080 Msida, Malta
- **lat**: 35.90076
- **long**: 14.47586
- **full address**: University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq, MSD2080 Msida, Malta, University of Malta, Msida, MSD, Malta

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Somateknika II: Eċċess / Somatechnics II: Excess being held?
  - **A:** Somateknika II: Eċċess / Somatechnics II: Excess takes place on Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm at University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq, MSD2080 Msida, Malta, University of Malta, Msida, MSD, Malta.
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