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Writing The Global Body: Philosophy, Literature, ReligionFebruary 16
The Global Humanities Lecture Series
Humanities 218
Panel Discussion with York College faculty members Dr. Colbey Reid, Dr. Christa Shusko, Dr. Dennis Weiss, and Dr. Amy Propen.
Writing in 1975, the feminist literary scholar Helene Cixous noted that we need a new mode of language to work against the societal hierarchies that view women’s bodies as inferior. She said in her groundbreaking work Laugh of the Medusa that women must “write their bodies” to be heard: “Censor the body,” she wrote, “and you censor breath and speech at the same time.”
Almost 20 years later, in 1991, the actor Demi Moore appeared seven months pregnant on the now iconic cover photo of Vanity Fair magazine. Feminist scholars asked whether the representation of Moore’s pregnant body could be viewed as liberating the feminine body, or whether the image might be read as perpetuating the already existing, dominant discourses surrounding the pregnant body.
In 2009, Susie Orbach further complicates the notion of the culturally, technologically-mediated body by considering the body as a product of our modern consumer culture.
With these ideas in mind, this panel will consider the various dominant discourses in which we write our bodies and how these bodily inscriptions are perpetuated and sustained within global cultural contexts.
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Our Town 2010February 16, 17, 18, 19
Perko Playpen Theatre
Our Town 2010 is a revisioning of Thornton Wilder’s classic play set in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire, in 1901 and first produced in New York City in 1938.
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Children of MenFebruary 18
Humanities 218
The genre of science fiction often focuses on imagining the future of humanity, or even whether humanity has a future. It is precisely the uncertain future of humanity that is the premise of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men; the film depicts a near-future in which human beings can no longer reproduce. Because of the impending end of the species, human society has become increasingly violent, hopeless, and desperate. Though the film presents a hyperbolic scenario, it is not wholly dissimilar to past cultures’ attempts to come to terms with the threat of smaller-scale disasters. Such attempts to make sense of disasters frequently lead to apocalyptic religious perspectives. Children of Men may help us consider how and why humans have been attracted to apocalypse throughout human religious history and, alternatively, to consider the ways that religious perspectives may help us understand contemporary fascinations with these dystopic visions.
Dr. Christa Shusko, a professor of religious studies at York College, will introduce the film and lead question-and-answer session after the screening.
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Our Town 2010February 20
Perko Playpen Theatre
Our Town 2010 is a revisioning of Thornton Wilder’s classic play set in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire, in 1901 and first produced in New York City in 1938.