Wayne State University's Humanities Center is presenting "The Body" on Friday, April 8, a daylong interdisciplinary conference examining and contemplating the human body - from a psychological perspective. Walter Edwards, director of the center, says this year he received 22 proposals; the center picked eight, and funded the research. "It should appeal to people in the humanities, and arts and culture, in a wide range of disciplines," Edwards says. "Within the humanities, we study human beings in terms of their mental, physical, emotional and cultural lives, so the body is a viscerally important topic."