[IFETS-DISCUSSION:487] a seminar ad, live-broadcast

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Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:487] a seminar ad, live-broadcast
From: Ania Lian (ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
Date: Sat 21 Oct 2000 - 08:02:41 MEST 

Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:02:41 +1000 (EST)
From: Ania Lian <ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:487] a seminar ad, live-broadcast

University of Canberra, Australia
School of Languages and International Education
Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

As part of the Interdisciplinary Seminars run by the School of Languages
and International Education, Dr. Russell Beckett will be speaking on the
topic of 'Preventing the aging process today'. The seminar will be
broadcast live on the web and will be made available in streamed video
format. Full details are below.

Title: Preventing the aging process today: cell metabolism re-visited in
the light of postmodern thought.
Who: Dr. Russell Beckett (an independent scientist).
Where: School of Languages and International Education, University of
Canberra.
When: Wednesday 25th October 2000
Time: Australia (East)5 PM
        London 7 AM
        Paris 8 AM
        Warsaw 8 AM
        New York 2 AM
        Los Angeles, 24th October, 11 PM

Link for live broadcast and streamed videos:
http://www.slie.canberra.edu.au/broadcast

Abstract:
This seminar is based on the hypothesis that there is no necessity or
necessary reason for living organisms, including humans, to age
physically, to suffer from degenerative diseases and to die. It is
suggested that humans undergo senescence because of lack of appropriate
understandings in relation to the prevention of senescence. The lack of
these understanding occurs because humans operate within world views that
are limited by their way of life, social beliefs, and the form,
construction and use of language. It is social habit to accept senescence,
degenerative diseases and death as inevitable. It is social custom to view
the body as an aging physical substance filled with an ephemeral spirit.
It is personal folly to maintain uncritically those social beliefs and
languages. The seminar will briefly illustrate two ways of describing the
human body and senescence. The accompanying discussion will demonstrate
how one of the descriptions (as opposed to the other) can lead to the
development of intervention strategies which have a preventative effect on
the aging process.

Ania Lian
Lecturer in Critical Pedagogy and Technology in Education
School of Languages and International Education
ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au
http://comedu.canberra.edu.au/~ania/

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