[Sfts-students] Fwd: Scaling Observations event at Caltech, Mon. 4/22, 3:00-5:30pm

[Sherryl Vint]

Caltech calendar link:
https://www.hss.caltech.edu/news-and-events/calendar/vc-program-4-22-2024

"Scaling Observations"
In the nineteenth century a series of technological innovations radically
expanded the human compass of observation and exploration—off into the far
reaches of the vast heavens, back into the mists of deep time, and down
into the smallest corners of the petri dish. The changed scales on which
humans could observe, document, and interpret, opened up fundamentally new
questions about physical reality and our place within it. More
prospectively, they can also be seen to offer a preview of the new
challenges our scientific imagination contends with today in the face of
new breakthroughs in particle physics and a new reckoning with the
timescale of a changing climate. What perceptual challenges occur when we
attempt to engage with either the infinitesimal or the infinite? How do we
observe, document, and interpret environments that span from the
terrestrial to the celestial and what problems and promises span scales and
historical moments? This one-day symposium unites scholars of visual
culture, the history of science, and literary studies for an
interdisciplinary consideration of scale, perspective, and perception in
human and natural past and future.

Speakers and paper titles:
Devin Griffiths
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of
Southern California
"Alice Protests: The Afterlives of Wonderland in Environmental Critique"

Anna Henchman
Associate Professor of English, Boston University
"Larva, Polyp, and the Scale of Individuation in 19th-Century British
Naturalism"

Omar Nasim
Professor of the History of Science, Institute of Philosophy, University of
Regensburg
"Photography's Perception of Scale in the History of Astronomy"

Anne Sullivan
Lecturer, University of California, Riverside
"Recording Infinity: Astronomical Scale in Victorian Literature and
Photography"

-- 
Anne Sullivan, Ph.D.
Lecturer, University Writing Program
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