When will this be offered and at what URL?

>The American Museum of Natural History and Discovery Channel Online present
>Marks of Identity:  A Live Web Cast
>
>
>When is body art about fashion?  When is it about beauty?  What do these
>words mean? For individuals?  For different communities? How do societal
>standards and conventions form and affect our views of self and thus our
>body art? And when does beauty blend into issues of race, wealth, power,
>status, and gender?  Three panelists including the American Museum of
>Natural History’s Enid Schildkrout discuss and answer questions about body
>art and its relationship to trends and standards of beauty.
>
>
>Enid Schildkrout is Department Chair in the Division of Anthropology at the
>American Museum of Natural History and organizing curator for Body Art:
>Marks of Identity.  She has been involved with many exhibition projects,
>including curating African Reflections:  Art from Northeatern Zaire which
>resulted in a film and a prize-winning book.    She received her Ph.D. in
>Social Anthropology from Cambridge University and has studied African
>cultures for three decades. Her most recent book, edited with Curtis A.
>Keim, is The Scramble for Art in Central Africa (Cambridge University Press,
>1998).
>
>Valerie Steele is Chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of
>Technology and Editor of the quarterly journal Fashion Theory:  The Journal
>of Dress, Body & Culture.  Her numerous books have included Shoes:  A
>Lexicon of Style (Rizzoli, 1999), Fifty Years of Fashion:  New Look to Now
>(Yale University Press, 1997), and Fetish:  Fashion, Sex and Power (Oxford
>University Press, 1996).  Currently under curation is The Corset:
>Fashioning the Body (forthcoming, January 2000).  She received her Ph.D. in
>cultural history from Yale University.
>
>Noliwe Rooks is a Visiting Assistant Professor in History and African
>American Studies at Princeton University.  Her book Hair Raising:  Beauty,
>Culture and African American Women won the Choice Award for Outstanding
>Academic Book.  She is currently at work on two projects.  One is a social
>history of African American women’s magazines between 1891-1975, and the
>other is entitled Fat:  An American Obsession.  She received her Ph.D. in
>American Studies fr
>
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Katherine Jones
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Harvard University
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