
The University of New Mexico
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920
cgonzal@unm.edu
Oct. 8, 2007
UNM Hosts Lecture Series on 19 th Century Science, Technology and Aesthetics
The University of New Mexico Department of English presents “Science, Technology, and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century,” a lecture series that explores the enchantment of Darwin, the excitement of early flash photography and the telegraph’s rewiring of the human mind. The free lectures are on Thursdays, Oct. 18, Nov. 1 and Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. in Dane Smith Hall, Rm. 125 on the UNM campus.
“We hope that the university and broader community will join us to consider the ways in which artists, writers and scientists of the past confronted some of today’s most exciting and vexing issues: the relation of the human and natural worlds, the impact of new technologies and media on identity and art, and the tension between the secular and the sacred,” said Aeron Hunt, UNM assistant professor of English.
November 1
Kate Flint, professor of English, Rutgers University, “Flash! Surprising Illumination in the Nineteenth Century”
UNM, the New Mexico Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities funded the lecture series. For more information, visit http://www.unm.edu/~english/ or call Aeron Hunt at 277-.6230.
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