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From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

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Date: 17 Feb 1998 12:50:58 -0800
From: Carol Colatrella 
Subject: April 98 conference on Body and Place
Members of SLS might be interested in the following full-length
announcement for posting on any society list(s).  Please feel free to
edit
at will.
Contact:
Christopher Sellers
History Department; NJIT/Rutgers-Newark
University Heights, Newark NJ  07102
Sellers@megahertz.njit.edu
Tel.:(516) 423-8398 (home, most reachable for 1997-98 year)
FAX: (516) 421-8973
Conference:
Body and Place--
Intersecting Histories of the Body and Its Environment
A Conference Sponsored by
Rutgers University,
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and the New
Jersey
Institute of Technology
You are invited to a workshop conference to explore historical
relations
between human bodies and their environments or"nature." 
Participants will
consider how people's bodies and their surroundings have intermingled
and
interacted, mutually defining and influencing each other across
different
places and times.
The conference thereby addresses whether the recent turn toward the
history
of the body provides a point of convergence between the history of
medicine
and the life sciences, cultural history  and environmental history.  To
bolster
its intellectual agenda, the conference will aim at scholarly
community-building: bringing together leading representatives of each
of
these new directions with other interested scholars to lay groundwork
for
continuing contact and interaction among them.  Combining local
scholarly
contributions with those of prominent invitees, the conference will
help
sketch out foci for intellectual and programmatic collaboration among
history faculty with common interests in Newark, New Brunswick, and
elsewhere in the Greater New York area, as well as on a national level.
The fields of history of medicine and the life sciences as well as
environmental and cultural history have increasingly broached questions
about the historical relationship between human bodies and their
environments.  They have done so in strikingly different ways that
reflect
not just divergent
intellectual projects and commitments but a limited awareness of one
another.  The conference aims to bring historians from these different
fields into dialogue with one
another and with other scholars working on parallel topics in the
social
sciences
and in policy.  We hope it will stimulate, enrich, and develop what
have
become some of the most exciting lines of inquiry within cultural
history
and the
histories of medicine, the life sciences and the environment.
Participants will meet for one late afternoon and two full-day sessions
(Thursday, Friday and Saturday) April 16th through 18th, 1998.  Invited
presenters come from the Greater New York area as well as from other
parts
of the country.
Public addresses and a roundtable will come on Thursday and Friday; the
following Saturday we will hold our workshop-style discussions (also
open
to the
public) based on invited works-in-progress.  In addition to discussing
these peoples' on-going work, these discussions will plan for
continuing
pursuit of
similar lines of inquiry.
Conference Schedule
Newark, N.J
April 16, 17, and 18, 1998
Thursday, April 16
At the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey:
4:30--6:15
B610 Medical Sciences Building
185 South Orange Avenue
Welcoming Remarks
Lauren Benton, Chair of History Department,
Rutgers University at Newark and New Jersey Institute of Technology
1st Public Talk and Discussion
Moderated by John Opie, New Jersey Institute of Technology:
"Disease and Environment in America: A Research Agenda"
Gerald Grob, Rutgers University at New Brunswick
6:15-7:15
Reception
Friday, April 17
At New Jersey Institute of Technology:
10:00-11:30--2nd Public Talk and Discussion Upstairs Ballroom, Hazell
Student Center
150 Bleeker Street, also reachable off Lot 7 on Central Avenue
Moderated by Lisa Rosner, Stockton State College
"Bodily Encounters: Science and Material Experience in Early Modern
Europe"
Pamela Smith, Pomona College
At Rutgers University at Newark:
1:00-2:30--Third Public Talk and Discussion  Hill Hall 108
360 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Moderated by Susan Schrepfer, Rutgers University at New Brunswick:
"Bodies, Ecology, and the Industrial Workplace"
Arthur McEvoy, University of Wisconsin at Madison
3:00-5:00--Roundtable Discussion
Hill Hall 108
"Why Study the Historical Relations between Body and Place?"
Moderated by Jan Lewis, Rutgers University at Newark
Mary Fissell, Johns Hopkins University
Elizabeth Lunbeck, Princeton University
David Rosner, Columbia University
Joel Tarr, Carnegie-Mellon University
The Audience
6:00-7:00--Reception/Opening of Kate Dodd Exhibit
Robeson Center Art Gallery, Rutgers University at Newark
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Saturday, April 18
At Rutgers University at Newark
Multipurpose Room E, Robeson Center,
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
9:30-12:30--Discussion of Three Works-in-Progress
Moderated by Clement Price, Rutgers University at Newark
Conevery Bolton, Harvard University
Andrew Isenberg, Princeton University
Delores Greenberg, Hunter College/CUNY
1:30-3:30--Discussion of Two Works-in-Progress
Moderated by Reese Jenkins, Rutgers University at New Brunswick
Gregg Mitman, University of Oklahoma
Emily Thompson, University of Pennsylvania
4:00-6:00--Summation Discussion
Phil Pauly, Rutgers University at New Brunswick
Chris Sellers, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University
at
Newark
For a map of the campuses and any other further information about the
conference, please go to the conference Website, at
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~history/bodyplace2.html or call (973)
596-3269.
There is no registration fee or process.  Accommodations are available
at
the Gateway Hilton in Newark (adjacent to the train station and a short
distance from the campuses). A
special conference rate of $106/night applies if you make reservations
before March 15. Please call (800) HIL-TONS or (973) 622-5000. For
those
with cars, accommodations are
also available at the Turtle Brook Hotel in West Orange, N.J., at rates
of
$75/night for a single and $81/night for a double.  Please call (973)
731-5300.
Directions:
By Train--From NYC and from the South, Amtrak and New Jersey Transit
trains
are available into Penn Station Newark.  From there, take the Newark
subway
two stops to
Washington Street for the Rutgers campus (one block away) or three stops
to
Warren Street for the NJIT campus.  There will also be transportation
available from there to and from
the UMDNJ campus; please call our general information number or contact
our
Website for these arrangements (see reverse).
By Plane--Direct flights are available from many cities into Newark
International Airport.  The Newark Hilton provides a shuttle from the
airport; take the monorail to Station E.
These shuttles run approximately every 30 minutes.  There is also a New
Jersey Transit bus, number 62, from the airport to Penn Station Newark,
which the Hilton itself adjoins.
>From Penn Station Newark, a subway runs to the Rutgers and NJIT
campuses
(see "By Train"; also for transport to UMDNJ campus).
By Car--the campuses are most easily approached off Interstate 280,
which
may be reached via the New Jersey Turnpike (exit 15W) or Garden State
Parkways (exit 145) from the
south, Interstate 80 from the west and Interstate 95 from the north. 
On
280, head toward downtown Newark (west from the New Jersey Turnpike or
east
from the Garden State)
and get off at exit 14a for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.  Turn
right onto  MLK Boulevard to go to the NJIT (on the right) and
Rutgers-Newark (on the left) campuses,
which come together at the corner of  MLK Blvd. and Central Avenue. 
For
the UMDNJ campus, continue along MLK Boulevard and turn right on West
Market Street.  The
UMDNJ parking deck and medical complex will then become visible on the
left.  Parking is available in this parking deck.  For the NJIT and
Rutgers
campuses, parking is available
in pay lots along University Avenue, one block downhill (or east) from
MLK
Boulevard.