{"id":1044826,"date":"2012-09-09T15:48:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T15:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/anatomy\/congress-for-curious-peoples-one-day-symposium-london-edition-last-tuesday-society-this-saturday-september-8.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:16:49","slug":"congress-for-curious-peoples-one-day-symposium-london-edition-last-tuesday-society-this-saturday-september-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/congress-for-curious-peoples-one-day-symposium-london-edition-last-tuesday-society-this-saturday-september-8-2.php","title":{"rendered":"Congress for Curious Peoples One-Day Symposium: London Edition, Last Tuesday Society, This Saturday, September 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 This Saturday, September 8, you are cordially invited to join myself and a host of distinguished scholars, makers, and museum folk as we investigate, via a one day symposium termed \"The Congress for Curious Peoples,\" some of the provocative intersections explored in the exhibition \"Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy,\"<\/a> on view at the London-based Last Tuesday Society until the end of the month.<\/p>

This first ever UK edition of The Congress for Curious Peoples will feature participants from The Wellcome Collection<\/a>, The Wellcome Library<\/a>, and The Gordon Museum of Pathology<\/a>, as well as some of my very favorite artists, thinkers and scholars, and will take on such heady topics as enchantment and enlightenment, or the sublimation of the magical into the rational world; the secret life of objects, or the non-rational allure of objects and the psychology of collecting; and beautiful death and incorruptible bodies, or the shared drive to immortalize the human body and aestheticize death in both medicine and Catholicism, and will<\/p>

Full info follows; hope very very<\/i> much to see you there!<\/p>

Congress for Curious Peoples: London Edition
Date: Saturday September 8<\/b>
Time: 11am - 5:30 pm<\/b>
Admission: £15.00<\/span> (Tickets here<\/a>)<\/b>
Location: The Last Tuesday Society<\/a>
Address: 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP<\/a><\/b>
Produced by Morbid Anatomy
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11-12:<\/b> Introduction by Morbid Anatomy's Joanna Ebenstein<\/a>Keynote panel: Enchantment and Enlightenment (20 minute presentations followed by moderated discussion)<\/p>