[Sci-tech-public] STS Circle, September 12 - Ann Blair - (Please RSVP)

[Lee Vinsel]

*STS Circle at Harvard***

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*First Fall Semester Meeting:  Please Note the Date!***



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*Ann Blair*

*History, Harvard*



on



*The Role of Note-Taking in Intellectual Activity—Early Modern Europe and
Beyond*



Monday, September 12

12:15-2:00 p.m.

124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106



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Lunch is provided if you RSVP.

Please RSVP to *sts**@hks.harvard.edu* by 5pm Thursday, September 8.





*Abstract:* Note-taking is one of those often overlooked practices that
inform and shape intellectual activities of many kinds. I will offer an
overview of the principal forms of note-taking in use in the European
tradition (with an emphasis on pre-modern and early modern Europe) and
suggest how these methods of working affected modes of writing. And I am
eager to discuss how digital tools today are both extending past practices
and transforming them.





*Biography*:  Ann Blair is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at
Harvard University. She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history
of early modern Europe (16th-17th centuries), with an emphasis on France.
Her interests include the history of the book and of education, the history
of the disciplines and of scholarship, early modern natural philosophy and
its interactions with religion.



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