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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:maroon'> “The
Subway Series”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:maroon'>A
Joint Colloquium Between Harvard History of Science and MIT Program in Science,
Technology, and Society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Secondary Worlds of Jules Verne<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Roz Williams, MIT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>This talk
deals in a cluster of “seconds” as they relate to the life and work of Jules
Verne (1828-1905). First, briefly, I discuss the problems of employing the
concept of Second Nature in historical studies and make a pitch for the value
of imaginative literature as a source of evidence and insight into major
transformations of the material world. Then I describe, also briefly, Verne’s
years in Paris during the Second Empire, when he was involved in both a
variety of cultural circles ranging from romantic drama to popular science. The
literary form he invented towards the end of his years in Paris--the geographic
romance--celebrates the triumphs of second nature while also defying the
bourgeois civilization represented by the Second Empire. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Verne
accomplishes this by creating a “Secondary World” (from J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1939
lecture on fairylands) through mapping the entire globe in fiction. In this
life-consuming project of Verne’s, vehicles play an important role as tools of
exploration and also as secondary worlds unto themselves, with their captains
in a mixed roles of liberator and commander. I will conclude by showing how the
submarine <i>Nautilus</i> (in <i>Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas</i>) is
not only a high-tech escape vehicle but also a slave ship; its story evokes the
vessels still openly engaged in the slave trade out of Nantes, Verne’s home
city and the primary French port of that trade, at the time of his birth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tuesday, December 8, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>4pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Located in Science Center 469 at
Harvard University <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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