ArtsCAFE Public Event: The Body in Pleasure, The Body in Pain
The Body in Pleasure, The Body in Pain
Saturday, April 16 from 2p-3:30p
Zoom only: Register: https://bit.ly/ArtsCAFEtalk
Explore the significance and influence of the body on culture over time.
How do we represent pain? How does it define us? How do we escape it? How does pleasure counteract, or exist alongside, pain? How can we expand our understanding of pleasure and pain beyond the physical?
In this workshop, we will examine literary, filmic, musical, and other artistic representations of the human body in pain and in pleasure with particular focus to historically marginalized voices.
Our Guest Lecturer:
Emily Naser-Hall is a fifth-year Ph.D candidate in the Department of English. She earned a BA from Tulane University, a Juris Doctor from DePaul College of Law, an LL.M. in National Security Law from Georgetown, and an MA in Literature from Northwestern University. She practiced immigration and international law, and published articles on refugee policy and natural disaster preparedness in national law review journals. Her research interests include the postmodern American gothic, experimental postmodernism, feminist narratives, and law and literature. She teaches introductory film studies courses in the English Department. She also teaches in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Department, where she incorporates her research interests in the American gothic, hidden narratives, and the rhetoric of fear into her Composition and Communications classes.
*Event is open and provided at no cost to participants, thanks to UKHC Arts in HealthCare*
ArtsCAFE (Arts Connect Around Food and Enrichment) is a project supported by UK General Surgery Residency, UKHC Arts in HealthCare and UK CFA Fine Arts Institute. Programming is aimed at examining the possible effects of regular art-making workshops on the surgical resident experience.
ArtsCAFE:Hums provide engaging discussions on medical humanities topics open to the larger UKY Community and beyond.
