[Sci-tech-public] Reminder: STS Circle, April 9th - Gregg Mitman - (Please RSVP)

[STS]

*STS Circle at Harvard*
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*Gregg Mitman
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*University of Wisconsin, History of Science*
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*Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record*

 Monday, April 9th
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
<sts at hks.harvard.edu>@hks.harvard.edu<sts at hks.harvard.edu>by 5pm
Thursday, April 5th.
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*Abstract:* Through what means and for what purposes have photographs and
films come into being and circulated as scientific documents in the world?  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?  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.  United in an approach to the
visual as material, we seek to call into question the canonical hierarchy
of the authored, the singular and the valuable image, and to transgress the
divides separating the still photograph and the moving image.

*Biography*: ***Gregg Mitman** * is 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 *Breathing Space: How
Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes* (Yale, 2007), *Reel Nature:
America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film* (Harvard, 1999), and *The State of
Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought* (Chicago, 1992),
and has contributed essays to popular periodicals such as *Orion* and *High
Country News*.   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, *Tales from Planet Earth**.*


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