[Sci-tech-public] STS Special Lecture: Rebecca Herzig, February 19 @ 4:00 pm

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Please join us Tuesday afternoon, February 19

STS Special Lecture

The Affliction of Freedom:
Shame, Science, and Liberal Governance

Rebecca Herzig
Bates College

4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095

Abstract:
Recent scholarship in STS has focused on the 
dilemmas of bodily ownership emerging through 
current developments in the life sciences. This 
talk highlights previously overlooked features of 
the governance of life, labor, and property in 
advanced liberal societies, by tracing the 
history of a single "human biological" in the 
United States:  body hair.  Consternation over 
the nature and purpose of human hairiness, 
expressed in scientific treatises, advice 
manuals, and private letters, intimates some of 
the more vexing contradictions of choice in 
modern America­--contradictions at the center of contemporary vital politics.


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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