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Health and Wellness

"Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self": A presentation by Stacy Alaimo, November 3, 2009

November 3, 2009 - Stacy Alaimo is a professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published essays on feminist theory, eco-theory, and green cultural studies, as well as a book entitled Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (2000).

"Embodiment and the Sense of the Self: Views from Meditation and Cognitive Neuroscience": A talk by Evan Thompson, October 22, 2009

"Food From Here, For Here: Rekindling the Intimacy of our Food System": A talk by Randel Hanson, September 24, 2009

"Trouble with Toxics": A presentation by Kim Fortun, April 17, 2009

"The Optimal Sacrifice": A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi": A presentation by Rane Willerslev, April 13, 2009

"Kinesthetic Experience: Understanding Movement Inside and Out": A presentation by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, March 24, 2009

"The making of a viral emergency. Retrovirologists, neoliberalism and the AIDS crisis in Cameroon": A presentation by Guillaume Lachenal, March 23, 2009

"Understanding Body Image: Sense of Self, Media Imagery, and Visual Culture": A presentation by Ann Marie Barry, March 11, 2009

"Embodiment and Body Knowledge in the Ancient World": A presentation by Daniel H. Garrison, February 18, 2009

"Catastrophe-Afterlife: Constituting Life at the Threshold": A presentation by Yasmeen Arif, February 13, 2009

"Breeding Choruses and Cocktail Parties: A Frog's Perspective on Hearing in a Noisy World": A presentation by Mark Bee, January 29, 2009

November 23, 2008 - Medical Humanities - Sarah Tracy is Director of the Medical Humanities Program in the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma.

"The Spirit of Leadership: The Time is Now": A presentation by Darlyne Bailey, November 13, 2008

"Sense and Sensibilities: Exploring the Origins of the Global 'Anti-Biotech' Movement": A presentation by Rachel Schurman and William Munro, October 30, 2008

"Combining Art with Science in the High-Tech Intensive Care Unit: The Role of Music Intervention in Patient Care" - Presentation by Linda Chlan, September 25, 2008

November, 2007 - Dan Burk is the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and a prominent authority on the law of intellectual property, specializing in the areas of cyberlaw and biotechnology.

October, 2006 - William LaFleur is E. Dale Saunders Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Liquid Life: AboNovember 14, 2009), and principal editor of Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research (Indiana University Press, 2007).

 

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