Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, New York University Institute of Fine Arts
Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium Seminar
Chairs: Robin Kelsey and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

Speakers:

Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies; Professor of History, Harvard University.

Charles Carstens, PhD Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion.

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JOHN DURHAM PETERS "CELESTIAL DATABASES: THE CASE OF JOSEPH SMITH’S MEDIA THEOLOGY"

Fantasies of omniscience and total records haunt the age of Big Data. Many data-processing corporations cloak themselves in the celestial rhetoric of “the cloud” and Google co-founder Sergey Brin once stated that “a perfect search engine would be the mind of God.”  Media historians interested in forerunners of digital computation have pointed to a number of book-keeping and data-gathering projects, both bureaucratic and religious, that point to our moment of superabundant documentation.  In...

Chad Wellmon, Associate Professor of German Studies and faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, will discuss “Googling Before Google:  A Brief History of the Search”.

 Drawing on histories of science, print, and the university, Wellmon’s 2015 Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University examined how the modern research university emerged as a response to the challenges posed by the eighteenth-century information revolution. His talk will...

James Hanken, Professor of Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Curator in Herpetology; Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology; and Director, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Nancy Pick, Science Writer and Editor 

Donald Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and Curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium, Harvard University

Raquel Alonso Perez, Curator, Harvard Mineralogical & Geological Museum

In the words of biologist Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard Museum of Natural History stands as both "...

Open to all FAS Staff.

Theodore M. Porter, Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA

Featuring Jonathan Sarna, the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University.

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