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Classification Schemes on Culture and Society: day-long workshop
The Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies presents:
Natural Divisions? The Impact of Classification Schemes on Culture and Society
Friday, May 15th 2015 | 10:30-5:00 pm
Room 5307
A day long workshop at the CUNY, Graduate Center exploring the implications of human classification across a range of different domains – science, social behavior, education, literature, and the arts.
Schedule
10:30 – 10:45 am: Jesse Prinz (Philosophy) | Introduction
10:45 – 11:15 am: Rachel Kravetz (English) | “J.G. Frazer and the Grotesque”
11:15 – 11:30 am: Break
11:30am – 12:00 pm: Rochelle Rives (English) | “Criminal Types: Joseph Conrad and the Sciences of Detection.”
12:00 – 12:30 pm: Andreas Killen (History) | “Sciences of Expression in Weimar Germany”
12:30 – 1:45 pm: Lunch recess
1:45 – 2:15 pm: Ken Guest (Anthropology) | “Challenging Biological Essentialism in the Anthropology Classroom”
2:15 – 2:45 pm: Christina Nadler (Sociology) | “Categories and Care: Social Distinctions with Material Consequences”
2:45 – 3:00 pm : Break
3:00 – 3:30 pm: Tiwi Marira (Industrial / Organizational Psychology) | “Colorism and Classism: Exploring New Antecedents and Old Consequences”
3:30 – 4:00 pm: Julie Maybee (Philosophy and Disability Studies) | “Impairment and Biology”
4:00 – 5:00 pm: Reception