Tue September 4, 2018
Caroline Winterer at The Interval: The Art and Science of Deep Time
SEE EVENT DETAILSThe Interval at Long Now welcomesCaroline Winterer: The Art and Science of Deep Time: Conceiving the Inconceivable, 01800-01900
A distinguished historian and author explains how, beginning in the early 19th century, innovations in geology, art, and cognitive science pointed to epic time scales that required new thinking. It was only the start of reckoning with planetary time: thousands, millions, and billion of years. Today the idea of "deep time" continues to ripple through our understanding of ourselves and our world. Dr. Winterer's work on this project is informed by and features maps from Stanford's David Rumsey Map Center.
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm at The Interval at Long Now
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Caroline Winterer is Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Stanford Humanities Center. She is an American historian, with special expertise in American thought and culture. Her most recent book is American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason. Other books include The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900, and The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910. She has received fellowships from among others the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Humanities Center. Her writing appears in numerous publications and academic journals. For mapping the social network of Benjamin Franklin she received an American Ingenuity Award from the Smithsonian Institution.
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The Interval at Long Now welcomesCaroline Winterer: The Art and Science of Deep Time: Conceiving the Inconceivable, 01800-01900
A distinguished historian and author explains how, beginning in the early 19th century, innovations in geology, art, and cognitive science pointed to epic time scales that required new thinking. It was only the start of reckoning with planetary time: thousands, millions, and billion of years. Today the idea of "deep time" continues to ripple through our understanding of ourselves and our world. Dr. Winterer's work on this project is informed by and features maps from Stanford's David Rumsey Map Center.
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm at The Interval at Long Now
Join Long Now to support our programming and get access to livestream video of our talks.
Caroline Winterer is Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Stanford Humanities Center. She is an American historian, with special expertise in American thought and culture. Her most recent book is American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason. Other books include The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900, and The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910. She has received fellowships from among others the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Humanities Center. Her writing appears in numerous publications and academic journals. For mapping the social network of Benjamin Franklin she received an American Ingenuity Award from the Smithsonian Institution.
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