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Numbered Lives: A Tale of Mortality Tables and Pedometers

Dartmouth Library Book Talk

Wednesday, February 6, 2019
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Baker-Berry Library, East Reading Room
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Lectures & Seminars, Performances

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! 

For more information, contact:
Jill Baron
jill.e.baron@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://leslie.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=54587

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