Introducing "Histories of The Body Working Group" - 1st Meeting on 10/21 at Noon EDT

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From: Alok Srivastava

Hello Philosophers of Science In Practice - 

The "Histories of The Body Working Group" invites you to join our meetings: 

If your research takes The Body as a site of performative practice and of practical performances, and 

if your research program takes The Body as intersections of pluralist ontologies and epistemologies, and 

if your research agenda takes The Body as a venue of primary and social phenomena that persistently displaces and troubles our academic habits of ontologizing and epistemologizing, then

Please consider exploring our working group described below. 

We hope to complicate and enrich the next decade of research agendas engaging The Body as a first principle and as a first site of engaging in human activities. 

Historians and Philosophers can be seen as practitioners of futures-making, and history-writing and philosophy-making can be experienced as practices of re-working the genealogies of our histories and conceptions to reclaim the possibilities that were somehow constrained out or excluded. Come and be pluralist with us. Come and add your pluralist practices of scholarship and research to our working group. 

Here are details of our 1st event: 

Histories of the Body Working Group

Session: 'The Historian and the Body' - with Rebecca Martin

Thursday, October 21st at 12:00 Noon EDT.

Zoom Link for Histories of The Body WG - 12pm EDT (1 hr.) - Monthly, on 3rd Thursdays

Meeting ID: 898 0751 6467

In this session we ask: “What is the role of the historian in shaping modern understandings of the body? (and by extension, what do we envisage the purpose of this working group to be?)”.

In preparation, please have a look at the following readings (extracts available here):

Hogarth, R. A. (2019). The myth of innate racial differences between white and black people's bodies: Lessons from the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. American journal of public health, 109(10), 1339-1341. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305245.*

Tuck, E. and K. W. Yang (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 1-40 https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630/15554.*

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns leading up to the meeting via email (histories...@gmail.com) or Twitter (@Body_histories).

Next Session: Non-verbal Interaction Processes in and between Bodies with Alok Srivastava. Thursday, Nov. 11th, 2021 at 12pm EDT (details available on our events page) 

Michaela, Patricia, Rebecca and Alok

(Co-convenors of HistSTM HoB Working Group)

website: www.historiesofthebody.org.

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Alok Srivastava, Ph.D.

Research: 

https://aloksrivastavahpssos.wordpress.com/ 

Integrative projects: 

www.playfuldyads.org

www.historiesofthebody.org