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Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry

Join us for a conversation on normative conceptions of bodies and how to challenge them.

929 E 60th St

Join us at the <a href="https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/" title="https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry</a> for this conversation on normative conceptions of bodies and how to challenge them. Bringing together perspectives from media phenomenology, the arts, social sciences, disability studies, and occupational theory, this panel proposes new ways of thinking about and through the body. The new director of the Art, Science, and Culture initiative, Desiree Foerster (Department for Cinema and Media Studies) will be joined by Michele Friedner (Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago) and Amy Roder McArthur (occupational therapist and disability researcher, Northwestern University) to kick off a new series of events at the Gray Center, dedicated to the interdisciplinary exploration of diverse embodiments.<a href="https://www.artsscienceculture.uchicago.edu/upcoming-events/sidebar-alien-embodiments" title="https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/events/sidebar-alien-embodiments-1" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">About the participants&gt;&gt;</a> Free and open to the public Food and drinks will be served (6:00 - 6:30)

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