| 2005 Faculty
Fellows Conference:
The Body
Friday,
April 8th
Bernath Auditorium, David Adamany Undergraduate Library
Free and open to the public!
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Keynote
Speakers:
Sander Gilman
(Oxford University)
Author of Jewish Frontiers: Essays on Bodies,
Histories and Identities (2004) and Making the Body Beautiful:
A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery (2001)
· “Glamour
and Beauty Imagining Glamour in the Age of Aesthetic Surgery”
Karmen MacKendrick
(Le Moyne College)
Author of Word Made Skin: Figuring Language at
the Surface of Flesh (2004) and Counterpleasures (1999)
·
“Dismembered
Divinity”
Marilyn Yalom
(Stanford University)
Author of Birth of the Chess Queen: A History
(2005) and A History of the Breast (1999)
·
“The
Female Body as Cultural Icon: The Earth Mother, the Virgin Mary,
and the Chess Queen”
Wayne State
Speakers:
Thomas Abowd, Anthropology:
“Dangerous
Bodies/Vulnerable Nations: Arabs and Muslims in a post-‘9/11’
America”
Robert Aguirre, English:
“Embodying
American Indigenes: The Case of Julia Pastrana”
Lisabeth Hock, German
and Slavic Studies:
“Shades of Melancholy in Gabriele Reuter's From a Good Family
(1895)”
Ellen Barton, Linguistics:
“Experimenting
on the Body”
Jonathan Flatley, English:
“Andrei Platonov's Melancholy Bodies”
Bart Miles, Social Work:
“Rewriting the Homeless Body: Highlighting a Subjugated Discourse”
Lisa Maruca, Interdisciplinary
Studies: “Reading
Bodies: New Technologies of Learning in Eighteenth-Century England”
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