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SUMMARY:Imaginations of the Womb – Uterine Imaginaries
DESCRIPTION:This two-day event fosters graduate-led research and discussions in the humanities on the ethical\, symbolic\, and cultural meanings of the womb across traditions and epochs. The womb has long been a site where competing values around autonomy\, gender\, sexuality\, and power converge. Participants will explore how womb-related knowledge—spanning literature\, philosophy\, the history of medicine\, religion\, art\, music\, and law—shapes understandings of personhood\, agency\, and moral authority. At its core\, the workshop undertakes a sustained inquiry into how human societies have imagined reproduction and human difference. The workshop features a variety of formats\, including graduate student research presentations\, roundtables\, and a keynote lecture by Professor Terri Kapsalis (School of the Art Institute of Chicago). \nTerri Kapsalis is the author of Jane Addams’ Travel Medicine Kit (commissioned by the Hull-House Museum\, a collaboration with forensic scientists\, installed in Jane Addams’ bedroom as an alternative label alongside her kit for a “slow museum” experience)\, Hysterical Alphabet (WhiteWalls\, based on primary medical writings on hysteria from ancient Egypt to the present and written like a Victorian children’s alphabet book\, also a multi-media performance with film and live soundtrack performed with John Corbett and Danny Thompson throughout the U.S.)\, and Public Privates:  Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum (Duke University Press – the only book reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine\, The Village Voice\, and a medical fetishist site The Amateur Gynecologist.) \nThis workshop is open to the public and to all Princeton graduate and undergraduate students regardless of identity. \n\n\n\nHosted by the Department of German\, Princeton University. \nCo-sponsored by:\nCenter for Culture\, Society\, and Religion\nCommittee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies\nDepartment of Anthropology\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of French and Italian\nDepartment of German\nDepartment of Music\nDepartment of Religion\nHumanities Council\nProgram in European Cultural Studies\nProgram in Medieval Studies\nUniversity Center for Human Values \nContributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers or views presented.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/imaginations-of-the-womb-uterine-imaginaries-3/
LOCATION:103 Chancellor Green
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SUMMARY:Imaginations of the Womb – Uterine Imaginaries
DESCRIPTION:This two-day event fosters graduate-led research and discussions in the humanities on the ethical\, symbolic\, and cultural meanings of the womb across traditions and epochs. The womb has long been a site where competing values around autonomy\, gender\, sexuality\, and power converge. Participants will explore how womb-related knowledge—spanning literature\, philosophy\, the history of medicine\, religion\, art\, music\, and law—shapes understandings of personhood\, agency\, and moral authority. At its core\, the workshop undertakes a sustained inquiry into how human societies have imagined reproduction and human difference. The workshop features a variety of formats\, including graduate student research presentations\, roundtables\, and a keynote lecture by Professor Terri Kapsalis (School of the Art Institute of Chicago). \nTerri Kapsalis is the author of Jane Addams’ Travel Medicine Kit (commissioned by the Hull-House Museum\, a collaboration with forensic scientists\, installed in Jane Addams’ bedroom as an alternative label alongside her kit for a “slow museum” experience)\, Hysterical Alphabet (WhiteWalls\, based on primary medical writings on hysteria from ancient Egypt to the present and written like a Victorian children’s alphabet book\, also a multi-media performance with film and live soundtrack performed with John Corbett and Danny Thompson throughout the U.S.)\, and Public Privates:  Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum (Duke University Press – the only book reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine\, The Village Voice\, and a medical fetishist site The Amateur Gynecologist.) \nThis workshop is open to the public and to all Princeton graduate and undergraduate students regardless of identity. \n\n\n\nHosted by the Department of German\, Princeton University. \nCo-sponsored by:\nCenter for Culture\, Society\, and Religion\nCommittee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies\nDepartment of Anthropology\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of French and Italian\nDepartment of German\nDepartment of Music\nDepartment of Religion\nHumanities Council\nProgram in European Cultural Studies\nProgram in Medieval Studies\nUniversity Center for Human Values \nContributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers or views presented.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/imaginations-of-the-womb-uterine-imaginaries-2/
LOCATION:46 McCosh Hall
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SUMMARY:Imaginations of the Womb – Uterine Imaginaries
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Marie-Louise James and Erica Passoni \n\nThis two-day event fosters graduate-led research and discussions in the humanities on the ethical\, symbolic\, and cultural meanings of the womb across traditions and epochs. The womb has long been a site where competing values around autonomy\, gender\, sexuality\, and power converge. Participants will explore how womb-related knowledge—spanning literature\, philosophy\, the history of medicine\, religion\, art\, music\, and law—shapes understandings of personhood\, agency\, and moral authority. At its core\, the workshop undertakes a sustained inquiry into how human societies have imagined reproduction and human difference. The workshop features a variety of formats\, including graduate student research presentations\, roundtables\, and a keynote lecture by Professor Terri Kapsalis (School of the Art Institute of Chicago). \nTerri Kapsalis is the author of Jane Addams’ Travel Medicine Kit (commissioned by the Hull-House Museum\, a collaboration with forensic scientists\, installed in Jane Addams’ bedroom as an alternative label alongside her kit for a “slow museum” experience)\, Hysterical Alphabet (WhiteWalls\, based on primary medical writings on hysteria from ancient Egypt to the present and written like a Victorian children’s alphabet book\, also a multi-media performance with film and live soundtrack performed with John Corbett and Danny Thompson throughout the U.S.)\, and Public Privates:  Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum (Duke University Press – the only book reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine\, The Village Voice\, and a medical fetishist site The Amateur Gynecologist.) \nThis workshop is open to the public and to all Princeton graduate and undergraduate students regardless of identity. \n\n\n\nHosted by the Department of German\, Princeton University. \nCo-sponsored by:\nCenter for Culture\, Society\, and Religion\nCommittee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies\nDepartment of Anthropology\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of French and Italian\nDepartment of German\nDepartment of Music\nDepartment of Religion\nHumanities Council\nProgram in European Cultural Studies\nProgram in Medieval Studies\nUniversity Center for Human Values \nContributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers or views presented.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/imaginations-of-the-womb-uterine-imaginaries/
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