In anticipation of "BODILY PROOF," an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference exploring Bodies of Knowledge, please join us for two special preview events: 

Tuesday, March 6 at 7:00 P.M.
Room 133, Barker Center (The Humanities Center), 12 Quincy Street

Alba F. Aragón
Harvard, Romance Languages and Literatures
"Orality and Biography in Jean Paul Sartre's La Nausée and Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener Rue Labat"

Lindsay Smith
Harvard, Social Anthropology
"Finding Bodies, Proving Death: Forensic Anthropology and the political cateogry of the desaparecido in Argentina"

Sofia Kalo
UMass Amherst, Socio-Cultural Anthropology
"Witnessing Post-socialist Anxieties, Hopes, and Desires through Representations of the Body in Albanian Visual Art"

Ingrid Nelson
Harvard, English Literature and Language
"Omphalogos:  Ecriture Feminine and Bodily Practice in American Culture Today"

Refreshments will be served.

Wednesday, March 21 at 7:00 PM
Room 133, Barker Center (The Humanities Center), 12 Quincy Street

Metchild Widrich
MIT, History, Theory and Criticism
"Can Photographs Make It so? Three Outbreaks of Valie Export's *Genital Panic*, 1969-2005"

Jean Biem
Harvard, Romance Languages and Literatures
"Displacing Bodies, Writing Historical Undecidability, and the Futures of Civilization"

Andrew Varyu
Harvard Divinity School
"The Body as Proof of God: Stress and Autoimmune Disorders as Prophetic Invitations to Exploring Relationships with the Divine"

Refreshments will be served.

Also, please save the date for the "BODILY PROOF" Conference on Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7.

These special preview events and the "Bodily Proof" Conference are sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with additional support provided by the Harvard Departments of Anthropology, English, History of Art and Architecture, History of Science, Romance Languages and Literature (French section), Harvard Divinity School, and Life Together Coordinating Council (HDS). For more information about any of these upcoming events, please email hcconfer@fas.harvard.edu .