ATMOSPHERIC DANGER IN THE AGE OF SENSIBILITY
Deborah Coen in conversation with Debjani Bhattacharyya
In the late eighteenth century, elite European scientists claimed the authority to sort good air from bad, an authority at once epistemic, aesthetic, and moral. This presentation focuses on a challenge to that authority from a figure on the margins of eighteenth-century science, Marie-Genevieve-Charlotte Thiroux d’Arconville. I argue that d’Arconville’s experimental investigations constituted a radical program of anti-heroic science and an inversion of Enlightenment views of atmospheric threat.
The sessions on climate are co-curated by Prof. Milica Topalović, Dr. Nazlı Tümerdem @nazlitumerdem, and guest curators Tatiana Carbonell @memushka and Chase Galis @chasegalis and take place during the spring term (5 Sessions on selected Mondays and the last session exceptionally on Wednesday).
GRAPHIC CONCEPT
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