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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Please join us for a new semester of Sensing the Unseen, a
seminar series to discuss current scholarship on the sensory and media modes
that people employ to access realms of existence and experience outside the
immediately visible. <br clear=all>
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All seminar meetings are free and open to the public - no registration is
required. <br>
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Upcoming seminars for Spring 2011 are listed below. Our website provides more
details: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/">http://web.mit.edu/unseen/</a><br>
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</span></font><b><font size=5 face=Arial><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/invisible.html">The Invisible: Feeling</a></span></font></b><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>/ Friday, February 11 (2:30-5pm) </span></font></b><font
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Speakers: Thomas Csordas and Kathryn Geurts</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Feeling exemplifies many epistemological problems connected
to the unseen, with respect both to unseen actions (inside the body) and to
their meaning for the experiencer.<br clear=all>
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</span></font><b><font size=5 face=Arial><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/evanescent.html">The Evanescent: Tasting</a></span></font></b><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>/ Friday, March 11 (2:30-5pm) </span></font></b><font
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Speakers: Amy Trubek and Brad Weiss</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Taste is at once a subjective aesthetic experience and also
subject to normative judgment.<br clear=all>
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</span></font><b><font size=5 face=Arial><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/obscure.html">The Obscure: Photographing</a></span></font></b><font
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font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>/ Friday, April 15 (2:30-5pm) <u1:p></u1:p></span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Speakers: Karen Strassler and Marianne Hirsch<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>From spirit photography to microcinematography to strobed
high-speed snapshots to heat cameras, photography and film have been enlisted
to bring into visibility or to create phenomena not apprehensible by the
so-called naked eye.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></font><b><font size=5 face=Arial><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/transitory.html">The Transitory:
Filming</a></span></font></b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>
(new session)<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>/ Friday, May 6 (1-5pm)</span></font></b><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>A round-robin of screenings and discussion of
works-in-progress by Cambridge-based, ethnographically minded filmmakers,
including Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Chris Boebel and <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Chris Walley</st1:PersonName>, Verena Paravel, and Emily Zeamer.<br
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>A Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures held
at MIT in 2010-2011, Sensing the Unseen is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation and hosted by MIT Anthropology. <br>
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Follow this link to receive email reminders for upcoming seminars: <a
href="https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list">https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list</a><span
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