Numbered Lives: A Tale of Mortality Tables and Pedometers
Dartmouth Library Book Talk
Location
Baker-Berry Library, East Reading Room
Sponsored by
Leslie Center for the Humanities, Library
Audience
Public
Jacqueline Wernimont, a new Dartmouth faculty member, and the inaugural bearer of the Distinguished Professorship in Digital Humanities and Social Engagement, presents her new book, Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), in conversation with Paul Young, Chair of Film and Media Studies. A scholar and artist, Wernimont's work explores the history of pedometers and other forms of Anglo-American quanitification, and their "entanglement with religious, imperial, and patriarchal paradigms." Free and open to the public. Please join us!
Location
Baker-Berry Library, East Reading Room
Sponsored by
Leslie Center for the Humanities, Library
Audience
Public