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The Invisible: Feeling

"The Invisible: Feeling," part of MIT Anthropology's "Sensing the Unseen" seminar series, will take place from 2:30-5 p.m. on Feb. 11 in Room 56-114.

Thomas Csordas, from the University of California, San Diego; and Kathryn Geurts, of Hamline University, will each lecture on their extensive ethnographic research on embodiment, illness, ability and disability. With discussant commentary by Byron Good (Harvard) and Robert Desjarlais (Sarah Lawrence).

"Sensing the Unseen" is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and sponsored by MIT Anthropology. Co-directed by Stefan Helmreich and Heather Paxson.

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