Theorizing at Rowan: Bianca Waked, "A Body of One's Own."

​The Department of Philosophy and World Religions is pleased to announce the next event in this Spring’s Theorizing at Rowan lecture series.

​On Monday April 13, at 5:00 pm, in Business 201, Bianca Waked, (Cornell University) will present a lecture entitled ‘A Body of One’s Own.’

​Prof. Waked has provided the following description of her talk:

​“Trans, fat, and disabled experiences have become increasingly intertwined by organizers, scholars, and healthcare workers alike. And yet, little has been said to explain what I am calling the "conceptual and political intimacy" shared across these three experiences. In this talk, I propose one way in which we might make sense of this intimacy—namely, the ways in which disabled, trans, and fat people are systematically oppressed by counterfactual possibilities. The upshot of an account is twofold: we can explain our intuitions around the shared conceptual and political intimacy across these categories, and we can bolster cross-movement solidarity without rendering sacrosanct the medically "unmodified" body.”

​This event is co-sponsored by the Ric Edelman College of Communication, Humanities and Social Sciences.

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​Series Info

​Theorizing at Rowan is a series of public, work in progress lectures covering a range of topics of relevance to scholars in philosophy, religion studies, and other related disciplines. The goal of the series is to promote scholarly exchange involving the Department of Philosophy and World Religions, the university, and interested scholars throughout the region. Speakers will include members of the department as well as faculty from other departments at Rowan and from other institutions.

​All Theorizing at Rowan events are free and open to the public.