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MillerComm Lecture Series

By a Nose: Origins of Aesthetic Surgery and the Jews of 19th Century Europe

Tuesday, September 23rd, 1997
Sander L. Gilman
7:30 pm

Twentieth Century Gallery, Krannert Art Museum

500 West Peabody Drive

Champaign

Event Description

The origin of aesthetis surgery in 19th-century Germany and the United States set the  pattern for meaning associated with changing the body for purposes of "passing." The history of aesthetic thus is closely related to the history of race and its consequences for minorities.

Cosponsored by: Sheldon and Anita Drobny Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society Krouse Visiting Lecture Fund, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Department of English, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, International Programs and Studies, Krannert Art Museum and Kincaid Pavilion, LAS/Humanities Council, Medical Scholars Program, Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program, Program in Comparative Literature, Science, Technology, Information and Medicine Program, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, The Hillel Foundation at the University of Illinois

Sander L. Gilman

Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts in Biology, The University of Chicago; Alan and Paul Krouse Visitng Scholar in Judaism and Western Culture, UIUC