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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please join us this
Friday, March 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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>Our talks this week will incorporate
an additional sensory/participatory dimension: a tasting of artisan cheeses and
pork sausage. Please join us!</span></font><u1:p></u1:p></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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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/evanescent.html">The Evanescent:
Tasting</a></span></font><br clear=all>
<font size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Friday, March 11, 2:30 - 5:00
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@ MIT 56-114 (<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=56">Whitaker Building #56</a>,
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Speakers: Amy Trubek (<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Vermont</st1:PlaceName>), Brad Weiss (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">William</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>
& Mary)<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: Rachel Black (<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Boston</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>), Steven Shapin (<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)<br clear=all>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Amy Trubek — Tasting and
Attentiveness: Nature or Culture?</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'>We eat and drink every day but how often do we taste? To taste is to
pay attention to that moment when the (ostensibly) natural world enters into
the human body. The sniff, the chew, the sip, the swallow. But how do we pay
attention? This talk will explore “taste” as an aesthetic and
physiological mediation between nature and culture by combining the sight,
smell and taste of maple syrup and alpine cheeses.<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'>Amy Trubek is a food anthropologist, Cordon Bleu-trained cook, and
Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Food Science at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Vermont</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.
She is the author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Taste of Place: A
Cultural Journey into Terroir</span></i> (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>,
2008).<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Brad Weiss — In Tastes, Lost
and Found</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'>Much of the work of contemporary food activism, à la Slow Food and
locavorism, is aimed at cultivating tastes. Taste, in this work, is
characterized at once as a potent, embodied, perceptual capacity, and a
narrative account of nostalgia, remembrance and tradition. This talk
interrogates the intersection of sensibility and history manifest in current
efforts to craft taste. The taste of "heritage breed" pork serves as
an instructive icon in these projects.<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'>Brad Weiss is Professor of Anthropology at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">William</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>
& Mary. An editor of the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Journal of
Religion in Africa </span></i>for over ten years, his work examines the
production of value as a symbolic, embodied, and political economic process.
Weiss is the author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Making and
Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption and Commoditization in Everyday
Practice</span></i> (Duke University Press 1996), <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Sacred Trees, Bitter Harvests: Globalizing Coffee in <st1:place w:st="on">Northwest
Tanzania</st1:place> </span></i>(Heinemann 2003), and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy
in Urban Tanzania</span></i> (Indiana 2009).<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>An informal reception will be held
immediately after the seminar, in room 16-220.</span></font><u1:p></u1:p></i><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'>……….<br clear=all>
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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