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Coco Fusco
October 24 - November 11, 2005 |
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| Coco Fusco is associate professor in the Visual Arts Division of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. In addition to her work as a performance artist, Fusco is the author of English is Broken Here (The New Press, 1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings (Routledge/Iniva, 2001), and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (Routledge, 1999). Fusco is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Her writings have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, The Nation, Ms., Frieze, Third Text, and Nka: Journal of African Art, as well as a number of anthologies. She is the co-founder and co-moderator of Undercurrents, an on-line discussion about feminism, new technologies, and globalization. For further information, see http://www.thing.net/~cocofusco/ |
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Veena Das
February 13 - March 3, 2006
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Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She has researched extensively on questions of violence, social suffering. and subjectivity, and is currently working on a project on the burden of disease and health-seeking behavior among the urban poor in Delhi. Her first book, Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual (Oxford University Press, 1977), sought to understand the working of long time cultural logics in contemporary events through an examination of texts produced in local communities in which myth and history were embedded in each other. Recent books include Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 1995) and several edited volumes. Before coming to Johns Hopkins, she taught at the University of Delhi for thirty-three years. Das serves on the executive board of the Institute for Social and Economic Research in Development and Democracy in Delhi and the International Center for Ethnic Studies, and is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For further information, see http://www.jhu.edu/~anthro/standard/faculty/veena_das.htm |
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Sander L. Gilman
April 3 - April 21, 2006
Sander L. Gilman recently joined the faculty at Emory University as Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Sciences. Before Emory, he was the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also had appointments in the Departments of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Psychiatry. Before Chicago, Professor Gilman was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University for 25 years. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over seventy books, and is one of the best known and highly respected humanities scholars in the United States. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, published by John Wiley and Sons in 1982 (reprinted: 1996) as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred, the title of his Johns Hopkins University Press monograph of 1986. More recently, his first biography Jurek Becker: A Life in Five Worlds appeared in 2003, his monograph Fat Boys: A Slim Book appeared in 2004, and his critical study of Franz Kafka appeared in 2005.
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