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.
Talk title: Plastinated Cadavers, Chinese Scandals, and Comparative Media Responses
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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