CHAT Series Fall 2009: The Humanities and The Body

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THE HUMANITIES AND THE BODY I:
Beauty and the Pact of Aliveness
Wednesday, October 21, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall
Keynote lecture from Professor Elaine Scarry,
Harvard University Department of English and
author of the seminal study The Body in Pain.
Introduction: Professor Nancy Bauer, Department of Philosophy

THE HUMANITIES AND THE BODY II:
The Humours in the Age of Neuroscience
Wednesday, November 4, 4:30 - 6:30pm
Center for the Humanities at Tufts
48 Professors Row
Guest speaker Noga Arikha, author of Passions and Tempers: a History of the Humours
Introduction: Professor Carol Flynn Department of English

THE HUMANITIES AND THE BODY III:
The New Biology and The Self
Thursday, November 5, 7- 8:30pm Reception to follow
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center
Panel discussion with Professor Stephen Pinker,
Professor Melvin Konner, and Noga Arikha.
Moderator: Professor Kevin Dunn, Interim Chair, Department of Religion, Department of English

CHAT Calendar: Fall 2009

September

Thursday, September 17, 5:30pm
Cabot Intercultural Center
160 Packard Avenue (7th floor)

“Mothers and Daughters: A Conversation with Hanan al-Shaykh and Mariam Said”

Co-sponsored with the Fares Center, Middle Eastern Studies, and the Department of German, Russian, Asian Languages and Literatures.

October

Tuesday, October 27, 6:30-8:30pm
Aidekman Arts Center

Framed: Contemporary Art and the Museum
Panel Discussion moderated by Noit Banai, School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Panel Guests:
Charlotte Bydler, professor of Art history, School of Culture and Communications, Södertörn University College
Deborah Klimburg-Salter, professor of South Asian and Tibetan art history at the University of Vienna
Anna Lundström, PhD-candidate at the department of Art History at Stockholm University
Andrew McClellan, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts & Sciences and Professor of Art History Tufts University
Jen Mergel, associate curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Presented in collaboration with The Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College, the Museum School, and the Aidekman Arts Center.
 

Transnational Studies Working Group

Transnational Studies responds to a new consensus among a growing number of academics that the categories used to study social practices, identity construction (racial, queer, or otherwise) and historical causation need to be reconsidered and revised. In particular, the nation-state, while of enduring importance in our contemporary period as it has been through the modern age, does not exhaust or fully determine the reach and complexity of human interactions and movements. Learn more >
 

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