Aesthetics Out of Bounds

The Aesthetics Out of Bounds Lecture Series presents

Lorraine Daston, Director of the Max-Planck Institute for the History of
Science in Berlin and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University in
Berlin

"Four Eyed Seeing"

Monday, April 3, 2006 - 5:00 PM
University Center, McConomy Auditorium (1st floor), on the Carnegie Mellon
campus

Professor Daston received her PhD in the History of Science at Harvard
University. She has lectured widely throughout the world, including
University of Vienna, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
in Paris, University of Chicago, and Oxford University in England. She also
received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pfizer Prize, History of Science
Society for best book on the History of Science as well as a Bainton Prize,
16th Century Studies Conference for best book in the area of History and
Theology. The author of many wide-ranging essays, Daston's books include
Wonders and the Order of Nature (Zone, 2001) (with Katherine Park) and
Things That Talk: Object Lessons From Art and Science (Zone, 2004)
(editor). Her Classical Probability in the Enlightenment was awarded the
Pfizer Prize.

Aesthetics Out of Bounds is a series of free public lectures being offered
at Carnegie Mellon University during the fall 2005 and spring of 2006.
Sponsored by the Center for the Arts in Society with a grant from the
Andrew Mellon Foundation, the series features a distinguished group of
internationally recognized scholars who will discuss the plastic, visual,
performing, and literary arts in multiple historical contexts. Drawing
scholars from the United States and Europe, the series will chart out new
directions in the fields of aesthetics, arts historiography, critical
theory and visual culture for a broad and intellectually engaged audience.

For more information about the series please visit;
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/mwitmore/aesthetics/index.html