BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5229-6ecf2df47d344cf3dea4b521abb109f6@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260413T000847Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210219T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210219T130000 SUMMARY:Politics, Performance, and Pseudoscience DESCRIPTION:\nFor the first time in its publication history\, The New En gland Journal of Medicine endorsed a candidate during the recent U.S. pr esidential election. While the journal's editorial was heralded as an un precedented move\, the politicization of science has always been a conce rted point of inquiry in American health and medicine\, not least of all during the nineteenth century. Drawing on the (bio)politics of science in our contemporary moment\, this webinar takes a historical approach to explore how the politicization of science is intertwined with performan ce\, plasticity\, and pseudoism. Crucially\, this webinar invites us to ask: What are the afterlives of these methods in current theories of hea lth? Who are the usual "patients" of such techniques? And most important ly\, how might literature help us imagine different possibilities for th e politics of science?\n\nPanelists include:\n\nSari Altschuler\, Associ ate Professor of English\, Northeastern University\, and author of The M edical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States (Un iversity of Pennsylvania Press\, 2018)\nChristine (Xine) Yao\, Lecturer\ , University College London\, and author of Disaffected: The Cultural Po litics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (under contract with D uke University Press)\nCharles Willoughby\, Visiting Fellow\, Center for Humanities and Information\, Penn State\, and author of Masters of Heal th: Racial Science and Slavery in American Medical Schools (under contra ct with University of North Carolina Press)\n\nAfter registering\, you w ill receive a confirmation email containing information about joining th e webinar.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/politics -performance-and-pseudoscience/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

For the first t ime in its publication history, The New England Journal of Medicine endo rsed a candidate during the recent U.S. presidential election. While the journal's editorial was heralded as an unprecedented move, the politici zation of science has always been a concerted point of inquiry in Americ an health and medicine, not least of all during the nineteenth century. Drawing on the (bio)politics of science in our contemporary moment, this webinar takes a historical approach to explore how the politicization o f science is intertwined with performance, plasticity, and pseudoism. Cr ucially, this webinar invites us to ask: What are the afterlives of thes e methods in current theories of health? Who are the usual "patients" of such techniques? And most importantly, how might literature help us ima gine different possibilities for the politics of science?

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