University Symposium Calendar of Events, 2009-10
The Symposium's public events will be organized by semester-long themes. The theme for Fall 2009 is "How Do We Know the Body?"
Thursday, September 10
Random Dance: Choreography and the Brain
Wayne McGregor is a multi award-winning British choreographer, renowned for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. He is the Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London; Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet (appointed 2006) and the government's first Youth Dance Champion (appointed 2008). His current work, Entity (performance at Northrop on Friday, Sept. 11), is based on collaborative research with psychologists, neuroscientists, and software engineers about the relationship between the brain and the moving body and has been described as technically astonishing, emotionally uncompromising and hard-hitting.
Cosponsored by Northrop Concerts and Lectures.
4:00-5:30 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Fridays, September 25, October 30, and November 20
Conversations about Body & Knowing
Discussions in which we will ask questions about what we know about the body and how we know it, and how people in different times and places have articulated their knowledges about the body. The ideas from these meetings will help to stimulate academic discussion and to shape the course of the symposium over the course of the next year. Open to all, feel free to bring lunch and enjoy the conversation
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm, 125 Nolte
Thursday, December 10
Anita Allen in conversation with Michele Goodwin
Anita L. Allen is Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she is an expert on privacy law, bioethics, and contemporary values, and is recognized for her scholarship about legal philosophy, women's rights, and race relations. Most recently, she is the author of The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (2004) and Privacy Law and Society (2007).
Michelle Goodwin is Everett Fraser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota where she holds joint appointments at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Professor Goodwin lectures internationally on topics such as biotechnology, assisted reproductive technologies, mental health, stem cell manipulation, and organ transplantation. Her most recent book is Black Markets: The Supply & Demand of Body Parts (2006).
4:00-5:30 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Previous Symposium Events
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Body & Knowing events, 2008-2009
Symposium 2006-2008: Time
Symposium 2005-06: The Politics of Populations
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