The Fellows of the Society for the Humanities will hold a public workshop on "Critical Mobilities: Thought, Culture and Performance" April 29-30, as the culmination of their yearlong research seminar. The workshop will feature roundtables with Cornell faculty and society fellows, and three public lectures.

Society Director Timothy Murray lauded "the generosity of this year's society fellows, who come to us from across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Taiwan, in opening to the public their concluding discussion of their research on the common topic 'Networks/Mobilities.' They have chosen to summarize their findings by focusing on three broad areas of interdisciplinary research common to their projects: performance, race/empire and representation."

The workshop opens April 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, with a plenary lecture by the Society's Senior Invited Fellow, Brian Massumi, University of Montreal professor of communication sciences, on "Thought Into Motion: The Energetics of Abstraction." A public reception will follow in the A.D. White House.

All other events take place April 30, 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House Guerlac Room.

Featured lectures are "The Dancing Gaze Across Cultures: Kazuo Ohno's 'Admiring La Argentina'" at 11 a.m. with Mark Franko, professor of dance at the University of California-Santa Cruz; and "Authorship and Agency in Networked Environments" at 5 p.m. with Simon Biggs, professor of art at Edinburgh College of Art.

Roundtable discussions include "Mobilities on Screen and Stage," 9:30 a.m.; "Race, Mobility, Empire," 2 p.m.; and "Mobilizing Representation," 3:30 p.m.

For more information, contact Murray at 607-255-4086 or tcm1@cornell.edu or visit the Society for the Humanities website, http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/.