CSIS SYMPOSIUM SERIES CONSIDERS BEAUTY

Following last year's successful multidisiciplinary inquiry into ways of understanding time, the Center for Science in Society is this year sponsoring a similar symposium on the topic of beauty. On successive Tuesday evenings beginning Feb. 17, a chemist, psychotherapist, dramatist, physicist, philosopher and neurobiologist will provide a series of frameworks for general discussion of the meaning and significance of the concept of beauty. The discussions are open to all who are interested; information, including an on-line forum for continuing discussion, is available on the Center's Web site at http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/ local/ scisoc/beauty/

All lectures will be held on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in the Dorothy Vernon Room in Haffner Hall. On the schedule:

• Feb. 17: "Molecular Aesthetics: Making the World More Beautiful" by Sharon Burgmayer, Professor of Chemistry
  
  
• Feb. 24: "Beauty Treatment: The Aesthetics of the Psychoanalytic Process" by Susan Levine of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
  
  
• March 2: "To Attend or Not to Attend: Beauty in Performance" by Mark Lord, Director of Theater, Director of the Arts Program and Associate Professor in the Arts
  
  
• March 16: "How a Physicist Sees Beauty" by Al Albano, Professor of Physics, Bryn Mawr College
  
  
• March 23: "Concepts of Beauty: A Feminist Philosopher Thinks about Paradigms and Consequences" by Christine Koggel, Associate Professor of Philosophy
  
  
• March 30: "Biology, Brains, and Beauty: How Do They (and We) Relate?" by Paul Grobstein, Eleanor A. Bliss Professor of Biology

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