A movement workshop with Maxine Sheets-Johnstone March 23, 2009

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is an evolutionary biologist and philosopher. She has lectured widely in Europe, most notably at the University of Aarhus, at Ghent University, at the University of Copenhagen at the Center for Subjectivity Research, the Department of Sport, and at theNiels Bohr Institute. In 2006-2007, she was a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at St Mary's College, Durham University.

Professor Sheets-Johnstone's first book was The Phenomenology of Dance (University of Wisconsin, 1966). Her forthcoming book is The Corporeal Turn: An Interdisciplinary Reader. Three "roots" books - The Roots of Thinking (Temple, 1990), The Roots of Power: Animate Form and Gendered Bodies (Chicago: Open Court, 1994), and The Roots of Morality (Penn State, 2008) - occupy a space between these publications, as does The Primacy of Movement (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing,1999) and Illuminating Dance: Philosophical Explorations (Bucknell University Press, 1985). The Roots of Power was nominated by Ashley Montagu for an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.

Organized by the Embodied Methodologies Group.

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