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Fall 2002 and Spring 2003 Programs
THE BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC

Fall 2002 Program

September 23
SEMINAR
Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule
Symons Hall, Room 3121, 4:00 pm Ð 6:00 pm
Ann Laura Stoler
University of Michigan

October 14
SEMINAR
Dirty Bodies and Dirty Desires: Sex, Sisterhood and Social Politics in London, 1848-1948
Symons Hall, Room 3121, 4:00 pm Ð 6:00 pm
Seth Koven
Villanova University

October 21
SEMINAR
Seven Parts a Man: Alfred KinseyÕs Sexual Behaviorism
Symons Hall, Room 3121, 4:00 pm Ð 6:00
James Gilbert
University of Maryland

November 11
SEMINAR
Locating the Body and the Body Politic in a Congolese Infertility Crisis
Symons Hall, Room 3121, 4:00 pm Ð 6:00 pm
Nancy Hunt
University of Michigan

December 4
SYMPOSIUM
The Body and the African Body Politic
Multipurpose Room, Nyumburu Cultural Center
David Coplan, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
David Gordon, University of Maryland
Paul Landau, University of Maryland
Achille Mbembe, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Wyatt McGaffey, Haverford College
Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen Roberts, UCLA
Zoe Strother, UCLA
Luise White, University of Florida

December 9
SEMINAR
Footbinding in History: Body, Gender and Power in Traditional China
Symons Hall, Room 3121, 4:00 pm Ð 6:00 pm
Dorothy Ko
Barnard College, Columbia University

Nathan and Jeanette Miller Distinguished Lecture in History and Public Affairs
November 4
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
Multipurpose Room, Nyumburu Cultural Center, 4:00 pm
Kevin Phillips
Distinguished author, commentator and political analyst

Spring 2003 Program

THE BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC

Monday, February 10
SEMINAR
Appetites and Political Desire: Intersections of Sexual and Racial Science and Geopolitics in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, 4:00 pm Ð 6:00 pm
Jessica Shubow
University of Maryland

Monday, March 3
SEMINAR
Sex, Scandal and an Essay on Population: William Godwin and Thomas Malthus in 1798
Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, 4:00 pm Ð 6:00 pm
Gail Bederman
University of Notre Dame

Monday, March 17
SEMINAR
The Bad Mother? Marie-Antoinette and the Politics of Maternity in the Age of Revolution
Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, 4:00 pm Ð 6:00
Thomas Kaiser
University of Arkansas

Friday and Saturday, April 18-19
CONFERENCE
The Body and the Body Politic in Latin America
The Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall
Alejandra Bronfman, Yale University
Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland
Eileen Findlay, American University
Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
James Green, Cal State Long Beach
Laura Lewis, James Madison University
Clare Lyons, University of Maryland
Eyda Merediz, University of Maryland
Anne Rubenstein, York University
Jessica Shubow, University of Maryland
Irene Silverblatt, Duke University
Daryle Williams, University of Maryland

Friday, May 9
CONFERENCE
Normalizing the Body
Multipurpose Room, 0105 St. MaryÕs Hall
Judy Coffin, University of Texas
Simone Weil Davis, Long Island University
Joseph Dumit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Judith Farquhar, University of North Carolina
Valerie Hartouni, UC San Diego
Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa
Linda Hogle, Stanford University
David Horn, Ohio State University
Nayan Shah, UC San Diego
Jessica Shubow, University of Maryland
Diane Snigurowicz
Jennifer Terry, UC Irvine
Carla Williams, Stanford University

Walter Rundell Lecture in American History
Monday, May 5
Missing in Action: Naming the Dead in the American Civil War
Multipurpose Room, Nyumburu Cultural Center, 4:00 pm
Drew Gilpin Faust
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Harvard University


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