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Plenary SpeakersDr. Christian Lüscher University of GenevaAuthor of Addiction: The Dark Side of Learning (2008),Professor Lüscher focuses in his research at theUniversity of Geneva on the cellular mechanisms ofdependence and addiction. Author of numerous articlesand monographs, he also lectures regularly onneuroscience to non-specialist audiences.Friday, 10:30 a.m.: “Drugs of Abuse to Enhance Creativity?”Prof. Amy Hollywood Harvard Divinity SchoolAuthor of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild ofMagdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart(University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), which receivedthe Otto Grundler Prize for the best book in medievalstudies from the International Congress of MedievalStudies; Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference,and the Demands of History (University of Chicago Press,2002); and, forthcoming from Columbia University Press,Acute Melancholia and Other Essays. She is also the coeditor,with Patricia Beckman, of the forthcomingCambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism, and theeditor of the "Gender, Theory, and Religions" series forColumbia University Press.Friday, 5:30 p.m.: “Reading Writing, Ecstasy”