"Kinesthetic Experience: Understanding Movement Inside and Out": A presentation by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone March 24, 2009

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone will discuss methodology(ies), clarifying wayward terminological descriptions of movement and bodies (including the term "embodiment" and its derivatives), focusing on evolutionary and developmental synergies of meaningful movement, and honing in on the need for analyses of bodies and movement that are true to the truths of experience. 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, and at the University of Copenhagen at the Center for Subjectivity Research, the Department of Sport, and the at Niels 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 (Open Court, 1994), and The Roots of Morality (Penn State, 2008) - occupy a space between these publications, as does The Primacy of Movement (John Benjamins Publishing,1999) and Illuminating Dance: Philosophical Explorations (Bucknell, 1985). The Roots of Power was nominated by Ashley Montagu for an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.

Official Website: http://www.ias.umn.edu/SymposiumAwards08/EmbodiedMethodologies.php