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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Please join us this Friday, February 11 for a new session 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>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>All seminar meetings are free and
open to the public - no registration is required. <br>
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<font size=5><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><a
href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/invisible.html">The Invisible: Feeling</a></span></font><br
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<font size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Friday, February 11, 2:30 - 5:00
PM <br>
@ MIT 56-114 (<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=56">Whitaker Building #56</a>,
Room 114)<br clear=all>
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Speakers: Thomas Csordas (<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName> <st1:City w:st="on">San
Diego</st1:City>) and Kathryn Geurts (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Hamline</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Discussants: Byron Good (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>) and Robert
Desjarlais (Sarah Lawrence) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Thomas Csordas Invisible Illnesses
and Embodiment as a Methodological Field</span></font><u1:p></u1:p></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>As a locus of research in anthropology and the human sciences,
embodiment can be understood as an indeterminate methodological field defined
by perceptual experience and mode of presence and engagement in the world. In
this paper I outline three dimensions of this field, including a system of
elementary structures of agency in the body-world relation, a fundamental axis
of sexual difference between male and female and the variations along that
axis, and a set of components of corporeality which allows us to identify and
isolate strategic research materials for empirical study. I then flesh in this
outline by examining three unseen or invisible illnesses phantom limb, chronic
fatigue, and chemical sensitivity each of which occupies a distinctive position
within embodiment as a methodological field.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Kathryn Geurts Disability
Sensibilities in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ghana</st1:place></st1:country-region>:
Feeling Invisible, Feeling Empowered</span></font><u1:p></u1:p></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Invisibility is palpable for citizens of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Accra</st1:place></st1:City> living with disability. You are
alternately passed by, ignored, or stared at so intensely that you experience
your self as an object. This paper will draw on interviews and participant
observation with Ghanaian activists to explore how the unseen (here: bodily,
emotional feeling) operates as a vector for cultivating disability
sensibilities that trouble and transcend distinctions consistently made between
rich/poor, outsider/insider, able-bodied/disabled, and the individual good
compared to collective well-being.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Kathryn Linn Geurts is Associate Professor of Anthropology at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hamline</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> and in 2009 was awarded a
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an
African Community</span></i>.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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A Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures to be held at MIT in
2010-2011, Sensing the Unseen is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and
hosted by MIT Anthropology. Our website provides more details, including
upcoming seminars: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/">http://web.mit.edu/unseen/</a>
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Maps & directions to the Sensing the Unseen seminar can be found here: <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/directions.html">http://web.mit.edu/unseen/directions.html</a><br>
Sign up to receive email reminders about upcoming seminars: <a
href="https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list">https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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