Over the past year, Mary Cappello has presented a rare breed of "Illustrated Reading" based on Swallow in such venues as Brooklyn's Observatory; The Velaslavasay Panorama in LA; The Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; The Smithsonian Institution (NMAH); Dickinson College; Ursinus College; Claremont McKenna College; The West Laurel Hill Cemetery; The North Kingstown Public Library; at AWP, The Montana Festival of the Book, and at numerous bookstores across the land. She served as Keynote Speaker for the 6th Annual Foreign Body Pediatric Airway Endoscopy Course at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; as Presidential Lecturer for the ABEA (American Broncho-Esophagological Association); as Distinguished Visiting Professor for U/Penn's Grand Rounds in Otorhinolaryngology; for the Hartford Medical Society; for Rhode Island Hospital's Grand Rounds in Gastroenterology; and at "Das Wunderkino: A Cinematic Cabinet of Curiosities," 12th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium in Bucksport, ME.
7:30 p.m.
"Top and Tail Talks": Jean Walton on Peristalsis, Mary Cappello on Swallow
Birkbeck College
Keynes Library of 43 (Room where The Bloomsbury Group used to meet)
Gordon Square
London, England
Hosted by Laura Salisbury
Monday, May 21, 20126-8:30 p.m.
Foreign Bodies? Self-Injury, Surgery and Performance
A panel discussion considering the variety of ways in which acts and objects are attributed medical, social, political and aesthetic meaning.
St Bartholomew’s Hospital Pathology Museum and Gallery,
3rd floor, Robin Brook Centre, West Smithfield, London
Nearest tube: St Paul's
[Doors open at 6 p.m. for a chance to explore the museum collection, including a display of foreign body specimens. The panel will run from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Refreshments provided.]
Hosted by Sarah Chaney
May 22-25, 2012Sixth Annual Sexuality Summer School (SSS):
"Homophobia and Other Aversions"
University of Manchester, England
Fellow presenters Anne Cvetkovitch and
performance artist Lois Weaver
Thursday, May 24th, 5-6:30 p.m., Public Lecture: "Vice Viscera: The (Dis)gustatory Implications of Aversion," Joan Casken Theatre, Martin Harris Center
Friday, May 25th, 9-10:30 a.m., Workshop: "Discursive Autobiography": Writing Against, From, Toward or About
Chair and Discussant: Patricia Duncker, Room: Mansfield Cooper 4.10
Hosted by Jacqueline Stacey