The Movement Workshop will provide a communal experiential point of departure for forays into the nonlinguistic and the challenge of languaging experience. The Workshop requires no formal movement training of any kind, no prior involvement in dance, gymnastics, or any particular sport activity. Neither does it involve learning new movement techniques or skills. It will draw on wholly natural kinetic dimensions of our humanness and basic facets of our interpersonal lives. You will be most comfortable if you wear non binding clothes and have no reservations about removing your shoes.

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is an interdisciplinary scholar affiliated with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. She was a dancer/choreographer and professor of dance for 20 years prior to her professorship in philosophy. Her books include The Phenomenology of Dance, The Roots of Thinking, The Roots of Power: Animate Form and Gendered Bodies, and The Primacy of Movement. Forthcoming books include The Roots of Morality and The Corporeal Turn: An Interdisciplinary Reader. She was recently awarded a Distinguished Fellowship for research on xenophobia by the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University (England) in conjunction with the Institute's inaugural program, "The Legacy of Charles Darwin."