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Friday 17 November 2006

A leading art historian and visual theorist will deliver a timely public lecture on how the Olympics have affected our concepts of beauty and the human body at the University of East London (UEL) Docklands Campus on Thursday 23 November.

Dr Fay Brauer, newly appointed Visiting Research Professor for Visual Theories at the UEL School of Architecture and the Visual Arts, will speak on the subject of ‘Building the Body Beautiful: Evolutionists and Olympians’, as part of UEL’s popular Public Lecture Series.

Her lecture will focus on the ideas and work of Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the modern Olympics in 1896, and how the Olympic revival related to the parallel development of evolutionism and eugenics.

Dr Brauer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art History and Theory at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her work explores the way in which we view and conceptualise the human body, as well as how beauty is constantly redefined by philosophy.

Dr Brauer's latest book, Regenerating the Body: Modernism, Evolutionism and Eugenics, deploys history of art, popular culture, medicine, science and sport to reveal how a re-conceptualisation of the human body occurred in Western art and culture from the end of the nineteenth century.

‘Building the Body Beautiful: Evolutionists and Olympians’ will take place at 4:30pm in the main lecture theatre at UEL’s new Business School. Admission is free, and all are welcome.

For full details of UEL’s Public Lecture Series, visit www.uel.ac.uk/lectureseries

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