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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Workshop: "Imaginations of the Womb – Uterine Imaginaries"
DESCRIPTION:This two-day event fosters graduate-led research and discussions in the humanities on the ethical\, symbolic\, and cultural meanings of the womb across traditions and epochs. The womb has long been a site where competing values around autonomy\, gender\, sexuality\, and power converge. Participants will explore how womb-related knowledge—spanning literature\, philosophy\, the history of medicine\, religion\, art\, music\, and law—shapes understandings of personhood\, agency\, and moral authority. At its core\, the workshop undertakes a sustained inquiry into how human societies have imagined reproduction and human difference. The workshop features a variety of formats\, including graduate student research presentations\, roundtables\, and a keynote lecture by Professor Terri Kapsalis (School of the Art Institute of Chicago). \nTerri Kapsalis is the author of Jane Addams’ Travel Medicine Kit (commissioned by the Hull-House Museum\, a collaboration with forensic scientists\, installed in Jane Addams’ bedroom as an alternative label alongside her kit for a “slow museum” experience)\, Hysterical Alphabet (WhiteWalls\, based on primary medical writings on hysteria from ancient Egypt to the present and written like a Victorian children’s alphabet book\, also a multi-media performance with film and live soundtrack performed with John Corbett and Danny Thompson throughout the U.S.)\, and Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum (Duke University Press – the only book reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine\, The Village Voice\, and a medical fetishist site The Amateur Gynecologist.) \nThis workshop is open to the public and to all Princeton graduate and undergraduate students regardless of identity. Contributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers or views presented. \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Culture\, Society\, and Religion; Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies; Department of Anthropology; Department of English; Department of French and Italian; Department of German; Department of Music; Department of Religion; Humanities Council; Program in European Cultural Studies; Program in Medieval Studies; University Center for Human Values \nOrganized by Marie-Louise James and Erica Passoni (German Department\, Princeton University); Keynote Speaker: Prof. Terri Kapsalis (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/graduate-student-workshop-imaginations-of-the-womb-uterine-imaginaries/
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