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2009-2010 YEAR-LONG RESEARCH PROJECTS

 

Telling Time: Its Meaning and Measurement

Telling Time: Its Meaning and Measurement

Organizing Fellows:
  Bosiljka Glumac, Geology
  Richard Lim, History

Time matters, and in ways that we are not always fully conscious of. This project will be a cross-disciplinary exploration of the definition, determination, meaning, and significance of time. We are interested in the ways that temporal and temporality shape materials, events, and processes, as well as how we perceive, analyze and create discourses using them. Our general aim will be to understand both the effects of time on things and the implications of the temporal dimension for our ways of seeing and interpreting the world and our place in it. Click here for more information on this project.


Wellness & Disease

Wellness & Disease

Organizing Fellows:
  Mary Harrington, Psychology
  Benita Jackson, Psychology

This project will consider the presence of illness and disease in our history, our culture, and our social arrangements, as well as in our mental constructions. In other words, disease will be viewed not only in epidemiological terms, but also in the ways that it insinuates itself in our psyche, our cultural imagination, and our institutions, and we will look at how we have come to habituate ourselves to it. Click here for more information on this project.


SHORT-TERM RESEARCH PROJECTS FOR 2009-2010




 

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