The 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.
October 18
George Levine, Kenneth Burke Professor of English (emeritus), Rutgers University, “Darwin Loves You”
November 1
Kate Flint, professor of English, Rutgers University, “Flash! Surprising Illumination in the Nineteenth Century”
November 8
Paul Gilmore, associate professor of English, California State University, Long Beach, “Melville, the Novel, and the Telegraphic Mind”
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.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu