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Brown Bag Lecture: Lisa Rosner, “De Acido, de Igne, de Computer: 18th-Century Dissertations in the Digital World”

Date:

22 September 2009

Time:

12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Location:

Chemical Heritage Foundation
6th Floor Conference Room
315 Chestnut Street

Free and open to the public.

Description:

While at CHF through Herdegen and Ullyot fellowships, I am working with the extensive collection of 17th- and 18th-century chemical dissertations held in the Neville Collection. I have been using the HistoryBrowser developed by Bill Ferster at the University of Virginia’s Digital Humanities Center to create visual, geospatial presentations that graphically depict the world of 18th-century chemical learning. The BBL will give an overview of work I have completed so far and allow for discussion of future directions.

Lisa Rosner is a professor of history at Stockton College, New Jersey, where she is also interim director of the South Jersey Center for Digital Humanities. Her scholarship has focused on medicine and chemistry in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Her most recent book, The Anatomy Murders, is forthcoming on 31 October 2009 from University of Pennsylvania Press.

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For more information, please call 215-873-8289, or e-mail bbl@chemheritage.org

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