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Conference Announcement: "Science and Visual Imagination in the Nineteenth
Century." (Friday, May 29, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m; Saturday, May 30,
9:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m). Friends' Hall, The Huntington Library, Art
Collections, and Botanic Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, California,
91108-1218.
Scholars from a variety of disciplines will explore how scientific images
and the visual language of scientific representation influenced and were
influenced by broader issues in the nineteenth century. Conference
registration is $20.00 (free for graduate students); additional cost for
optional lunches and evening banquet on Friday. To receive a brochure with
complete schedule and registration information, please contact the Research
Department of the Huntington Library at 626-405-2194 or via e-mail at
cpowell @huntington. org.
Schedule:
Friday, May 29
8:30 a.m Registration and Coffee
9:30 a.m.
Welcome: Robert C. Ritchie (The Huntington)
Remarks: Jennifer Tucker (Caltech)
Session 1 Mapping
Moderator: Alison Winter (Caltech)
Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge)
"The Traveler's Eye: Nineteenth-Century Description and
Illustration"
Jane Camerini (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Visual Arguments and Thematic Mapping"
Anne Secord (University of Cambridge)
"Observing Differences: Artisans, Gentlemen, and the
Work of Nineteenth-Century Botany"
12:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00
Session 2 Truth
Moderator: Amy Meyers (The Huntington)
Bernard Lightman (York University)
"Visual Rhetoric in Victorian Popularizations of Science"
Jonathan Ribner (Boston University)
"The Autumn of Natural Theology"
5:00 Reception and Exhibition Openings
"Margaret Mee: Return to the Amazon," catered
compliments of Twin Palms Restaurant
Saturday, May 30
9:30 a.m. Registration and Coffee
10:00
Session 3 Empire
Moderator: Jennifer Watts (The Huntington)
Elizabeth Edwards (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)
"'Professor Huxley's Well-Considered Plan': Photography,
Ambiguity, and Anthropological Intention"
Christopher Lawrence (The Wellcome Institute for the History of
Medicine)
"Colonizing the Interior: Mapping Body and Empire in the
Nineteenth Century"
James Ryan (University of Oxford)
"Visualization and the Science of Empire: Photography,
Geography, and British Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century"
12:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00
Session 4 Graphic Method
Moderator: Bettyann Kevles (Art Center College of Design)
Robert Brain (Harvard University)
"The Physiognomy of the Accused: The Dispute over
Graphology in the Dreyfus Affair"
Lisa Cartwright (University of Rochester)
"Is the History of the Body Necessarily a History of its
Representation? Some Notes Toward a Theory of Comparative
Anatomical Realism"
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