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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">The
<b>Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Graz</b> invites you to the Lecture Series:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#7030A0">“Perceiving Nature(s): Epistemic, Artistic, and Political Practices as Contested Fields”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Elisabeth Hsu, University of Oxford</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#7030A0">Sensory Medical Anthropology, and how it
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#7030A0">analyses embodied Chinese Medical Perceptions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">This presentation presents three different Chinese medical terms of perceptual processes: (1) with regard to colour term qing in the
name of the Chinese medical drug qinghao, foregrounding its phono-aesthetics, (2) with regard to sound
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#FFC000"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">and vibration, when it comes to correspondences with the seasons, foregrounding
Chinese medical ideas of resonance (ganying), and (3) with regard to feelings, foregrounding an instance of listening to qi (ting qi) as a perceptual process that educates one’s attention. The argument is that – beyond sense perception – there are subtle modes
of perception that Chinese medical scholars recognised and worked with. The means by which I recognised these processes were anthropological: combining insights of textual scholarship with ethnographies on bodily technologies, in Chinese and other cultural
contexts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Elisabeth Hsu</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"> is a Professor of Anthropology
at University of Oxford. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Her research contributes to the fields of medical anthropology and ethnobotany; language and text critical studies; and the history
of science, technology and medicine in China and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Salvatore Lavecchia, University of Udine:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#7030A0">Perceiving Nature as Noetic Experience. Some "Plotinian" Suggestions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Plotinus associates nature with a particular modality of contemplation, characterising it as a preconscious manifestation of noetic/rational activity
and production of visible forms: in contrast to the activity of an artist, which requires a material substrate, the activity of nature is immobile, yet relational form without matter (III 8, 2-3) - which gives life to matter (III 8, 2, 6-19) -; because of
the aforesaid immateriality, the contemplation of nature occurs as a silent activity, as it were in sleep consciousness (III 8, 4, 22-28), in which nature is preconsciously both the subject and the object of contemplation, and as such a directly productive
activity (III 8, 3, 16-24 and 4, 15-28). As a consequence, perceiving nature means experiencing a living, although preconscious image of the selfconscious, eminently productive contemplation with which Plotinus identifies the supreme goal of human life. Conscioulsy
transcending any separation between subjectivity and objectivity, through the attainment of this goal human beings are not only manifesting in the highest form their true self, but are equally able to harmoniously and consciously cooperate in shaping the life
of the whole universe (V 8.7).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Salvatore Lavecchia</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">is Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Udine.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">His main research interests are: the Socratic dialogue; the philosophy of self in Plato and in Platonism; the metaphysics of light; ancient aesthetics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://kulturanthropologie.uni-graz.at/de/science-public/">https://kulturanthropologie.uni-graz.at/de/science-public/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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