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.

Additional programmatic details can be found below and via this event registration link https...

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Free and open to the public. Seating is limited. This event will not be ticketed.

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Join us on November 4^th at 4:00 pm for an artist talk by Betsy Schneider.

Schneider is a photographer and filmmaker who explores and documents transformations of individuals and families over time and place. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan, a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California. In 2002 she joined the School of Art faculty at Arizona State University where she is currently Associate Professor. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is part of notable...

Harvard Graduate Students:

Please join us for the presentation of work in progress by Mónica Salas-Landa, a Mahindra Center postdoctoral fellow, as part of our Mellon seminar on violence/non-violence.  The seminar will meet from 3 to 5 pm on Monday, November 9th, in Barker 133.

 Dr. Salas-Landa received a PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University in 2015. Her project "Living among a Field of Ruins: (In)Visible Residues of Violence and Revolution" combines an archival approach with...

Closed session: Graduate Students and Faculty only.

Refreshments will be served. We are also pleased to announce that, starting this semester, students attending the workshop will be entitled to dine for free at CES’s in-house, delicious Friday lunch (12.30-2 pm).

Papers will be pre-circulated on the workshop’s e-mail list. To subscribe, for detailed information about the workshop or its schedule for 2015-16, or if you wish to present in Spring 2016, please contact organizers Paul Schmelzing (...