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posted by KirkFurlotte in on sept. 16, 2013 - View profile
Halifax, NS
Biopolitics Under the Skin
Cancer's Margins, the Choreography of Knowledge, and Imag(in)ing Medicine's Queer Pedagogies
10:30ampm-abbreviation am
- 12:00pm
Mercredi Octobre 2 2013
Venue: Dalhousie University, Sir Charles Tupper Building, Theatre C
Address: 5850 College Street
Cost: Free
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible
Dalhousie's Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Speaker Series:
Dr. Mary Bryson
In this public lecture Dr. Mary K. Bryson from the University of British Columbia explores Nietzche's claim that 'knowledge has survival value rather than truth value.' Dr. Bryson's talk will situate her Cancer's Margins project and its preliminary findings in an overview of agonistic feminist, postcolonial, and queer biopolitical scholarship concerning embodiment, chronicity and new analytic modes of technomaterialism that have foregrounded and articulated complex and discontinuous assemblages that twist, warp and reimagine modernity's bedrock binaries, including 'alive<>dead', 'real <>fiction', 'subject<>object', 'now<>then' and so on. This lecture will engage with the opportunity, and perhaps, the obligation, to think critically about the move to delimit historically, and as a gesture to an entirely different futurity, the time when a biopolitics of embodied humanism was organized in a relation of explicit politicization.
Organizer:For more information, contact GAHPS at 902-494-2213 or gahps@dal.ca
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