10 Questions: What is A Body?
The KCET 10 Questions publication series is a collaboration with the UCLA Arts 10 Questions event series, an interdisciplinary course/public event series featuring conversations with leading scholars that provides both students and the public a special opportunity to experience the conversations that drive innovation at the university.
Every Tuesday for ten weeks, UCLA faculty members from disciplines as diverse as dance, medicine, photography, astrophysics, athletics, Chicana and Chicano studies, law, philosophy and religious studies will join UCLA Arts Dean Brett Steele to explore a fundamental question such as: What is space? What is failure? and What is freedom? The goal is to stimulate dialogue and exchange, and to seed a greater understanding of the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of knowledge production in the 21st century. We present a discussion primer for each week's session to get the conversation started.
This week, Susan Foster, Jennifer Jay, Tracy Johnson, and Greg Lynn will join Brett Steele, dean of the UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture to explore the question, "What is a Body?"
Professor in the Department of World Arts & Cultures/DanceSusan Leigh Foster is the author of "Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance," "Choreography and Narrative: Ballet’s Staging of Story and Desire," "Dances that Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull," "Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance," and "Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion." She has also performed lectures on dance at the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. Foster began presenting concerts of her own work in 1977. From 1979-88 she choreographed and directed Discordancers, a California-based company, and produced several evening-length group works in collaboration with composer Ron Kuivila. Foster began dancing at the age of seven, and has studied extensively in the traditions of Graham, Humphrey, and Cunningham. Foster prepares for dancing through the practice of Iyengar yoga. She received a BA in anthropology from Swarthmore College, an MA in dance from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in history of consciousness from UC/Santa Cruz. |
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Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringJennifer Jay earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She specializes in the fate and transport of chemical and microbial contaminants in the environment. Her research addresses a wide range of topics, including coastal water quality, arsenic in groundwater, and environmental proliferation of antibiotic resistance. Jay teaches classes in Aquatic Chemistry, Statistics, Chemical Fate and Transport, and Food: A Lens for Environment and Sustainability. She was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, and an engineering school-wide award for excellence in teaching. In addition, she was the Pritzker Fellow for Environmental Sustainability and a Carnegie Fellow for Civic Engagement in Higher Education. Jay also directs the Center for Environmental Research and Community Engagement (CERCE), a UCLA Center that addresses community-based environmental research questions in under-served communities in Los Angeles. |
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Maria Rowena Ross Chair of Cell Biology and Biochemistry and Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental BiologyTracy Johnson earned her bachelors degree from UCSD in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley, and was a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s research program is focused on understanding fundamental mechanisms of gene regulation and how these molecular events affect cellular function. Dr. Johnson has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the NSF CAREER Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the UCLA Academic Senate Award for Career Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. |
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Professor in the Department of Architecture & Urban Design and Founder, Greg Lynn FORMGreg Lynn was an innovator in redefining the medium of design with digital technology as well as pioneering the fabrication and manufacture of complex functional and ergonomic forms using CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) machinery. His work is in the permanent collections of the most important design and architecture museums in the world including the CCA, SFMoMA, ICA Chicago and MoMA. Lynn graduated from Miami University of Ohio with degrees in both architecture (Bachelor of Environmental Design) and philosophy (Bachelor of Philosophy) and later from Princeton University where he received a graduate degree in architecture (Master of Architecture). Has has instructed at the ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and as the Davenport Visiting Professor at Yale University. Find his exhibition work, books, videos and design on Greg Lynn FORM. |
— Nov. 1, 2018
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Art&Arc100: 10 Questions sessions will be held on Tuesdays through December 4 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Glorya Kaufman Hall theater (room 200). Free and open to the public (RSVP required). Pay by space parking available on campus adjacent to Kaufman Hall (Structure 4).
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