[Sci-tech-public] Sensing the Unseen @ MIT, Spring 2011- Save the Dates

[Amberly Steward]

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. 

All seminar meetings are free and open to the public - no registration is
required. 

Upcoming seminars for Spring 2011 are listed below. Our website provides
more details: http://web.mit.edu/unseen/

The Invisible: Feeling <http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/invisible.html>  

/ Friday, February 11 (2:30-5pm) 
Speakers: Thomas Csordas and Kathryn Geurts

 

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.
 
The Evanescent: Tasting <http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/evanescent.html>


/ Friday, March 11 (2:30-5pm) 
Speakers: Amy Trubek and Brad Weiss

 

Taste is at once a subjective aesthetic experience and also subject to
normative judgment.

The Obscure: Photographing <http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/obscure.html>


/ Friday, April 15 (2:30-5pm) 

Speakers: Karen Strassler and Marianne Hirsch

 

>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.


The Transitory: <http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/transitory.html>  Filming
(new session)

/ Friday, May 6 (1-5pm)




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 Chris Walley, Verena Paravel,
and Emily Zeamer.


 

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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. 

Follow this link to receive email reminders for upcoming seminars:
https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list/unseen_list

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