Wednesday, April 9
4:15 p.m. Robert J. Richards, "Beyond Biology: The Sources of Racial Categories." Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101.
8:00 p.m. Ralph Savarese, "The Lobes of Autobiography: Poetry and Autism." Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101.
Thursday, April 10
11:00 a.m. Lawrence Grossberg, "Rescuing the Economy from Economists: A Challenge for Interdisciplinarity." Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101.
(Cancelled) 4:15 p.m. M. Jacqui Alexander, "Interdisciplinarity as Intellectual Biography. " Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101.
Friday, April 11
11:00 a.m. Anna Johnson '07 and Emma Meade '07, "The "Reality" of Sex and Pleasure: Two Interdisciplinary Takes on the Essentialist/Constructionist Debate. " ARH 302.
4:15 p.m. Roundtable Discussion: Forum South Lounge, M. Jacqui Alexander, Larry Grossberg, Robert J. Richards, Ralph Savarese, and other Grinnell faculty.
Robert J. Richards is the Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago. He is a Professor in the Departments of History, Philosophy, Psychology, and in the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and Director of the Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine. He received a Ph.D. from St. Louis University in 1971, and another from the University of Chicago in 1978. Professor Richards’ research interests lie in the history and philosophy of psychology and biology, with specific interests in evolutionary biopsychology, ethology, and sociobiology, as well as in theories of perception from the ancient period to the present day. His most recent book is The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought, and will be published with the University of Chicago Press in 2007. Other books include: The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (2002), and The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin’s Theory (1992)
Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies and Chair of the Executive Committee of the University Program in Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been international co-editor of the journal Cultural Studies for the past decade. His research interests are popular music and youth culture, the philosophy and theory of culture and communication, and postmodernism. He has published over one hundred articles and essays, and his work has been translated into ten languages. His most recent book is Caught In The Crossfire: Kids, Politics, And America's Future (2005). Other books include: It’s a Sin: Essays on Postmodernism, Politics and Culture (1988), We Gotta Get Out Of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (1992), and Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays in Popular Culture (1997).
Ralph Savarese is a Professor of English at Grinnell College, and author of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption, which Newsweek described as a "real life love story and an urgent manifesto for the rights of people with neurological disabilities." In its first month of publication, Reasonable People was chosen "book of the month" by the Autism Acceptance Project in Toronto, CA. His poems, essays, articles, translations, and opinion pieces have appeared, among other places, in American Poetry Review, Sewanee Review, Southwest Review, Southern Poetry Review, Seneca Review, Southern Humanities Review, Edge City Review, New England Review, Graham House Review, Flyway, Cream City Review, Another Chicago Magazine, For New Orleans and Other Poems, Stone Canoe, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, The Poker, Modern Poetry In Translation, Poetry International, Prose Studies, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, Politics & Culture, Disability Studies Quarterly, the New York Times, the LA Times, the Balt imore Sun, the Atlanta Constitution Journal, the Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News, the Cincinnati Post, The Huffington Post, and the Gainesville Sun. He recently discussed his new book on the "Diane Rehm Show" (National Public Radio), "The Exchange" (Iowa Public Radio), "Live at Prairie Lights" (Iowa Public Radio), WNBC in New York, and NECN in Boston. The book was featured on ABC's "Nightly News with Charles Gibson" and CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." He is the 2003 winner of the Hennig Cohen Prize from the Herman Melville Society for an "outstanding contribution to Melville scholarship," and the first chapter of Reasonable People received a "notable essay" designation in the Best American Essays series of 2004. He teaches American literature, creative writing, and disability studies at Grinnell College. His current projects include editing a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly on autism, a book on neuropoetics, and a memoir and poetry project called Republican Fathers.
M. Jacqui Alexander is Professor of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at the Univesity of Toronto, and holds a Ph.D. from Tufts University. She is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism today and her work has had a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories. Her research and teaching have focused on questions of colonialism, political economy, and the racialized and heteronormative regulatory practices of the modern state as well as spiritual dimensions of experience and the meaning of sacred subjectivity. Her most recent book is Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred (2005). Other books include: Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray!: Feminist Visions for a Just World (2002), and The Third Wave: Feminist Perspectives on Racism (1998)
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