The Jewish Experience: A Template for Muslim Diaspora?

Speaker:

Sander Gilman

25 Oct 2007

8:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University, where he is the director of the Program in Psychoanalysis and the university's Health Sciences Humanities Initiative. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over seventy books. He has written on such diverse topics as aesthetic surgery, Albert Einstein's violin, sex and disease in George Bush's America, electrotherapy, art and the creation of the natural, and obesity. His Oxford lectures Multiculturalism and the Jews, appeared in 2006; his most recent edited volume, Race and Contemporary Medicine: Biological Facts and Fictions appeared in 2007. He is also the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane. The 2007-08 Goldtrap Lecture.

Sander Gilman will also join students and faculty on Thursday, October 25 for an afternoon seminar, "A Conversation on the History and Language of Mental Illness," in Ross 212 at 3:40 p.m.

---- This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.