Plastinated Cadavers, Chinese Scandals, and Comparative Media Responses

Ari Larissa Heinrich is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies in the Literature Department at UCSD. He researches the intersections of medicine, art, postcoloniality, race, and queerness, with a focus on stereotypes of Chinese identity.  His new book, Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Duke University Press, 2018) explores the racialized aesthetics of the body as commodity in the age of biotech.

What might a comparative examination of Chinese-language discourse on the plastinated human cadaver exhibits reveal about the political economics of race and capital distribution that inform them?

Date: October 11, 2018
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Location: List Art 220

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