University Symposium on
Body & Knowing
Awards for research
Interdisciplinary faculty seminar
Our experience of the world begins with our bodies, and our bodies and those of others are a source of endless fascination to us. The 2008-09 University Symposium on Body & Knowing examines the human body both as an object of study and as a producer of knowledge. The symposium welcomes contributions from scientists who study the body from the standpoint of modern biomedicine; from social scientists and humanists who look at the body from their own disciplinary perspectives, and from artists who make art about bodies and/or art using their bodies. We welcome the participation of people who are activists in fields such as health care and disability studies. 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.
Possible topics for sessions or conferences might include the follwing: legal conceptions of the body (including concepts like habeas corpus) and the body politic; bodies in warfare; the construction of gender; the mind-body relationship; embodied knowing; and the ways in which boundaries between human and animal on the one hand, and human and cyborg on the other, are conceptualized.
The IAS and the Office of the Vice President for Research are pleased to announce two funding initiatives related to the University Symposium on Body & Knowing: awards for research and creative projects, and an interdisciplinary faculty seminar. Proposals for Body & Knowing awards are due on June 4, 2008. Applications to teach the interdisciplinary seminar are due on April 25, 2008. For more information, follow the links above.
We are currently holding planning discussions to develop the Symposium on Body & Knowing. The next meeting is scheduled for Friday, May 9 at 11:00 am in Nolte 235. If you would like to participate in these discussions, please email Jeff Hartman. If you would like to read more about the ongoing discussion, you can download the notes from previous meetings on October 22, November 29, March 10, April 4 and April 21 . To offer your own contribution, please visit our wiki site at : https://wiki.umn.edu/view/IAS_Body_Knowing/WebHome
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