Come hear Princeton University historian Michael D. Gordin give an engaging public lecture on the "Pseudoscience Wars" and the birth of the scientific fringe. ???; hm 8/14/12

In this talk, Walton will discuss how the concept of reciprocity (in its reified, noun form réciprocité) emerged in the Enlightenment and was invoked to work through modern problems: political economy, rights, and citizenship. It was in the twentieth century that the term fell out of the modern/democratic lexicon to become associated with pre-modern societies. […]

"Experience, Imagination, and the Body of Ghosts: Examples from Ancient China" Poo Mu-chou Chinese University of Hong Kong What does a ghost look like? Does a ghost possess a body? How do we know it is a ghost? This talk attempts to answer these questions by using textual evidence from Ancient China. Using stories and […]

Through textual, visual, and interactive, virtual world-based analysis, this talk will examine and re-evaluate the visual argumentation employed during one of the most critical moments of image manipulation at Rome, the aristocratic funeral of the 2nd century BCE. Part of the presentation will take place within a multi-user, interactive virtual world. Attendees from the UCSB […]