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<div><font size="4"><b>Gregg Mitman<br></b></font></div>
<i>University of Wisconsin, History of Science</i>
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<div>Monday, April 9th<br></div>
<div><font color="#000000">12:15-2:00 p.m.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room
106<br><br></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Lunch is provided if you RSVP.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Please RSVP to</font> <a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">sts</font></a><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">@hks.harvard.edu</font></a><font color="#000000"> by
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<div><b>Abstract:</b> Through what means and for what purposes have
photographs
and films come into being and circulated as scientific documents
in the world? <span> </span>How might
the visual record offer not
only a powerful tool for seeing the changing culture of science,
but also for
investigating the original impulse to document the world on a
grand scale?<span> </span>This talk
offers an introduction to a
collaborative project that brought together scholars from the
history of science,
science and technology studies, history of photography, visual
anthropology,
art history, and archaeology to address what photography and film
do in the
world.<span> </span>United in an
approach to
the visual as material, we seek to <span>call into question the canonical hierarchy of the
authored, the singular
and the valuable image,</span> <span>and to transgress the divides separating the still
photograph and
the moving image.</span>
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<div><b>Biography</b>: <b><span></span></b><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Cambria">Gregg Mitman</span></b><b>
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the Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of
Science, Medical
History, and Environmental Studies at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison,
where he also serves as the Interim Director of the Nelson
Institute for
Environmental Studies. He is the author of several award-winning
books,
including <u>Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and
Landscapes</u>
(Yale, 2007), <u>Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on
Film</u>
(Harvard, 1999), and <u>The State of Nature: Ecology, Community,
and American
Social Thought</u> (Chicago, 1992), and has contributed essays
to popular
periodicals such as <u>Orion</u> and <u>High Country News</u>.<span> </span>He is the founding director
of
the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and
Environment, and is curator
of Madison’s popular environmental film festival, <i><span style="font-family:Cambria">Tales
from
Planet Earth</span></i><i><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-style:normal">.</span></i>
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