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From: "Society for Literature & Science"
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Date: 7 Feb 1998 12:09:02 -0800
From: "Cheryl J. Fish"
Subject: Conference on Body and Place
>I received this from another list and thought SLS folks might
enjoy.
Cheryl Fish, Dept. of English, Borough of Manhattan Community College
>
>Here's the final line-up for our conference on "Body and
Place," along
>directions and lodging info.
>All are welcome.
>
> Conference:
> Body and Place--
> Intersecting Histories of the Body and Its
Environment
> A Conference Sponsored by
> Rutgers University,
>The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and the New
Jersey
>Institute of Technology
>
>You are invited to a workshop conference to explore historical
relations
>between human bodies and their environments or"nature."
Participants will
>consider
>how people's bodies and their surroundings have intermingled and
>interacted, mutually defining and influencing each other across
different
>places andtimes.
>The conference thereby addresses whether the recent turn toward the
history
>of the body provides a point of convergence between the history of
medicine
>and
>the life sciences, cultural history and environmental history. To
bolster
>its intellectual agenda, the conference will aim at scholarly
>community-building: bringing
>together leading representatives of each of these new directions
with other
>interested scholars to lay groundwork for continuing contact and
>interaction among
>them. Combining local scholarly contributions with those of
prominent
>invitees, the conference will help sketch out foci for intellectual
and
>programmatic
>collaboration among history faculty with common interests in Newark,
New
>Brunswick, and elsewhere in the Greater New York area, as well as on
a
>national
>level.
>
>The fields of history of medicine and the life sciences as well as
>environmental and cultural history have increasingly broached
questions
>about the historical
>relationship between human bodies and their environments. They have
done
>so in strikingly different ways that reflect not just divergent
>intellectual projects
>and commitments but a limited awareness of one another. The
conference
>aims to bring historians from these different fields into dialogue
with one
>another
>and with other scholars working on parallel topics in the social
sciences
>and in policy. We hope it will stimulate, enrich, and develop what
have
>become some
>of the most exciting lines of inquiry within the histories of
medicine, the
>life sciences and the environment.
>
>Participants will meet for one late afternoon and two full-day
sessions
>(Thursday, Friday and Saturday) April 16th through 18th, 1998.
Invited
>presenters come
>from the Greater New York area as well as from other parts of the
country.
>Public addresses and a roundtable will come on Thursday and Friday;
the
>following
>Saturday we will hold our workshop-style discussions (also open to
the
>public) based on invited works-in-progress. In addition to
discussing
>these peoples'
>on-going work, these discussions will plan for continuing pursuit
of
>similar lines of inquiry.
>
> Conference Schedule
> Newark, N.J
> April 16, 17, and 18, 1998
>
>Thursday, April 16
>At the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey:
>
>4:30--6:15
>B610 Medical Sciences Building
>185 South Orange Avenue
>
>Welcoming Remarks
>Lauren Benton, Chair of History Department,
>Rutgers University at Newark and New Jersey Institute of Technology
>
>1st Public Talk and Discussion
>Moderated by John Opie, New Jersey Institute of Technology:
>
>"Disease and Environment in America: A Research Agenda"
>
>Gerald Grob, Rutgers University at New Brunswick
>
>6:15-7:15
>Reception
>
>Friday, April 17
>At New Jersey Institute of Technology:
>
>10:00-11:30--2nd Public Talk and Discussion Upstairs Ballroom,
Hazell
>Student Center
>150 Bleeker Street, also reachable off Lot 7 on Central Avenue
>Moderated by Lisa Rosner, Stockton State College
>
>"Bodily Encounters: Science and Material Experience in Early
Modern Europe"
>
>Pamela Smith, Pomona College
>
>At Rutgers University at Newark:
>
>1:00-2:30--Third Public Talk and Discussion Hill Hall 108
>360 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
>Moderated by Susan Schrepfer, Rutgers University at New Brunswick:
>
>"Bodies, Ecology, and the Industrial Workplace"
>
>Arthur McEvoy, University of Wisconsin at Madison
>
>3:00-5:00--Roundtable Discussion
>Hill Hall 108
>"Why Study the Historical Relations between Body and
Place?"
>Moderated by Jan Lewis, Rutgers University at Newark
>
>Mary Fissell, Johns Hopkins University
>
>Elizabeth Lunbeck, Princeton University
>
>David Rosner, Columbia University
>
>Joel Tarr, Carnegie-Mellon University
>
>The Audience
>
>6:00-7:00--Reception/Opening of Kate Dodd Exhibit
>Robeson Center Art Gallery, Rutgers University at Newark
>350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
>
>Saturday, April 18
>At Rutgers University at Newark
>Multipurpose Room E, Robeson Center,
>350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
>
>9:30-12:30--Discussion of Three Works-in-Progress
>Moderated by Clement Price, Rutgers University at Newark
>
>Conevery Bolton, Harvard University
>Andrew Isenberg, Princeton University
>Delores Greenberg, Hunter College/CUNY
>
>1:30-3:30--Discussion of Two Works-in-Progress
>
>Gregg Mitman, University of Oklahoma
>Emily Thompson, University of Pennsylvania
>
>4:00-6:00--Summation Discussion
>Phil Pauly, Rutgers University at New Brunswick
>Chris Sellers, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers
University at
>Newark
>
>
>For a map of the campuses and any other further information about
the
>conference, please go to the conference Website, at
>http://newark.rutgers.edu/~history/bodyplace or call (973)
596-3269.
>
>There is no registration fee or process. Accomodations are
available at
>the Gateway Hilton in Newark (adjacent to the train station and a
short
>distance from the campuses). A special
>conference rate of $106/night applies if you make reservations
before March
>15. Please call (800) HIL-TONS or (973) 622-5000. For those with
cars,
>accomodations are also
>available at the Turtle Brook Hotel in West Orange, N.J., at rates
of
>$75/night for a single and $81/night for a double. Please call
(973)
>731-5300.
>
>Directions:
>By Train--From NYC and from the South, Amtrak and New Jersey Transit
trains
>are available into Penn Station Newark. From there, take the Newark
subway
>two stops to
>Washington Street for the Rutgers campus (one block away) or three
stops to
>Warren Street for the NJIT campus. There will also be
transportation
>available from there to and from
>the UMDNJ campus; please call our general information number or
contact our
>Website for these arrangements (see reverse).
>By Plane--Direct flights are available from many cities into Newark
>International Airport. The Newark Hilton provides a shuttle from
the
>airport, and the Hilton itself adjoins Penn
>Station Newark, from which a subway runs to the Rutgers and NJIT
campuses
>(see "By Train"; also for transport to UMDNJ campus).
>By Car--the campuses are most easily approached off Interstate 280,
which
>may be reached via the New Jersey Turnpike (exit 15W) or Garden
State
>Parkways (exit 145) from the
>south, Interstate 80 from the west and Interstate 95 from the north.
On
>280, head toward downtown Newark (west from the New Jersey Turnpike
or east
>from the Garden State)
>and get off at exit 14a for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Turn
>right onto MLK Boulevard to go to the NJIT (on the right) and
>Rutgers-Newark (on the left) campuses,
>which come together at the corner of MLK Blvd. and Central Avenue.
For
>the UMDNJ campus, continue along MLK Boulevard and turn right on
West
>Market Street. The
>UMDNJ parking deck and medical complex will then become visible on
the
>left. Parking is available in this parking deck. For the NJIT and
Rutgers
>campuses, parking is available
>in pay lots along University Avenue, one block downhill (or east)
from MLK
>Boulevard.
>
>Christopher Sellers
>History Department; NJIT/Rutgers-Newark
>University Heights, Newark NJ 07102
>Sellers@megahertz.njit.edu
>Tel.:(516) 423-8398 (home, most reachable for 1997-98 year)
>FAX: (516) 421-8973
>
