Conference: Bringing the Body Back in the Humanities and Social Sciences

February 24, 2012

10:00am-7:00pm

This event is free and open to the public
Sponsored by the Committee for the Study of Religion at the CUNY Graduate Center

10:30am – 12:00pm: Informal workshop for graduate students with Arthur W. Frank and Bryan Turner
(Room C198)
Contact barslan@gc.cuny.edu for readings and more information

1:30 – 2:30pm: Patricia Clough (Graduate Center) on Feminist Theory, Bodies and Technoscience
(Room C198)

2:45 – 3:45pm: Victoria Pitts –Taylor (Queens College/Graduate Center) on Mirror Neurons, Affect and Embodied Relations: Lessons from Feminist Epistemology
(Room C198)

4:00 – 5:30pm: Arthur W. Frank (University of Calgary) on The Body as an Ethical Problem of Action
(Room C198)

6:00 – 7:00 pm: Book Launch and Wine and Cheese with Bryan S. Turner (ed) Handbook of Body Studies
(Room 5307)
(supported by Routledge Publishers New York)

Friday, February 24th, 2012 | 10.00 am – 7.00 pm
CUNY Graduate Center | 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th Street, New York City

For more information, visit: http://studyofreligion.gc.cuny.edu/

The Committee for the Study of Religion is generously funded by the Mellon Foundation