She links this quest to our current social world, and explores the changing implications of gender in the workings of the artful body. Established at that point would be a bourgeois politics with clear and separate roles for men and women. Rejected, in turn, would be many of the arts associated with aristocratic corporeality. By Carol Olechowski One of the most versatile spaces on the University at Albany s Uptown Campus may also be one of its best-kept secrets. Chapel House, located on the southwest side of Perimeter Road across from University Field, is a venue that suits many purposes.
Students can go there, of course, for religious services, spiritual direction, and meditation.
But Chapel House also lends itself to fellowship, study, and entertainment. The library also has a fireplace and couches where students can watch videos, study, or hold meetings. A garden out back has bird feeders, chairs, a semicircular stone wall - and an aura of peace. In fact, a pole in the garden is inscribed, in English, Latin, Hebrew, and Greek, with the message May Peace Prevail on Earth. We do have a mission of hospitality here, pointed out Sister Maureen O Leary, Catholic chaplain, as well as of reconciliation and meditation.