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An Interdisciplinary Workshop at CRASSH
(Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University.)
JUNE 12-13 2009
BORDERS
BOUNDARIES &
THRESHOLDS OF THE BODY
This two-day workshop explores the ways in which conceptualisations of the
human body and its processes inevitably have to deal with variation and
ambiguity. Drawing from disciplines including philosophy, social anthropology,
the history of medicine, visual arts and the clinical fields of immunology and
metabolism, the symposium will consider the ways in which a tension
frequently arises between knowledge based on fixed categories, such as
specific illnesses or anatomical structures, and the reality of individual bodies
and their living processes.
This event will bring together a genuinely interdisciplinary set of international
speakers, all variously engaged in questioning the ways in which the body is
described and made known. It will provide a unique space to share and explore
this topic, catalyse new ways of theorising the production of knowledge about
the body, and promote new debate and questions to be pursued in future.
Speakers include: Annemarie Mol, Monica Greco, Thomas Csordas, Susan
Leigh Star, Gail Weiss, Maryon McDonald, David Napier, Ellen Balka and a
visual presentation by Stelarc.
Registration Cost: waged £40, unwaged/student £20
Further details:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/612
CRASSH: 17 MILL LANE, Cambridge, CB2 1RX
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