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What is beauty? Is it only skin deep? Is it in the eye of the beholder? Is beauty truth and truth beauty? These provocative questions will be considered during “The Soul of Beauty,” the ninth collaboration between The Honors College at the University of Houston and The Jung Center of Houston. Co-sponsored by KUHF 88.7 FM, the conference kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3 at Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church, which is also sponsoring the event. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn, acclaimed nature writer Barbara Hurd and Jungian analyst Ronald Schenk will conduct a keynote panel presentation Friday night. The conference continues Saturday at 9 a.m. with individual presentations by Dunn, Hurd and Schenk, followed by a panel discussion with participants. Stephen Dunn has written 14 collections of poems, including the recently released “Everything Else in the World.” In 2001, “His Different Hours” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Barbara Hurd is the author of four books, including “Entering the Stone: On Caves” and “Feeling Through the Dark and Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination,” a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001. Ronald Schenk is a Jungian psychoanalyst practicing in Dallas and Houston. The current president of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, Schenk is the author of three books, including “DarkLight: The Appearance of Death in Everyday Life” and “The Soul of Beauty: A Psychological Investigation of Appearance.” Registration for this conference is $50, $40 for members of The Jung Center, and free to faculty, staff, and students of all institutions campuses in the UH system. For a conference brochure and to register, visit The Jung Center's Web site at www.junghouston.org. Previous conferences in this annual series have brought scholars and psychoanalysts together with participants from the greater Houston community to explore psychology and the movies, violence and division in America, and the power of the personal story. Speakers have included religious scholars Huston Smith and Wendy Doniger, psychoanalysts John Beebe and Lyn Cowan, UH law professor David Dow, sociologist William Martin, and many others.
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