A firestorm of human rights critiques often greets the opening of an exhibit of plastinated cadavers in Europe and North America, obscuring any attempts to critique the notion of the human (and indeed of “rights”) in the smoke from its blaze. My talk asks what a comparative examination of Chinese-language discourse on the plastinated human cadaver exhibits might reveal about the political economics of race and capital distribution that inform them.
Part of the Comparative Literature Seminar Series 2017-2018, "Area Impossible: Sexuality & Geopolitics." This event is cosponsored by the UCLA Taiwan Studies Lectureship.
Sponsor(s): UCLA International Institute, Asia Pacific Center, UCLA Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, English, Department of History, UCLA Division of Humanities, Promise Institute, LGBTQ Studies Program, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles