The fifth seminar on scientific illustration led by Marie-Odile Bernez at the University of Burgundy in France, will be held on Friday June 15, 2012 in the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. Beginning at 10:15 AM, professor Alix Cooper from Stony Brook University will focus on gender and the depiction of nature in the eighteenth century. Then Valérie Morisson will present a number of ethnographic and anthropological photographs from the end of the nineteenth century, questioning the issue of ethnic groups in science. Both speakers will address the question of scientific illustrations in the context of political/cultural prejudices.
Seminar on Scientific Illustration, June 15
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Picturing Nature: Gender and the Politics of Description in Eighteenth-Century Natural History (Alix Cooper, Stony Brook, USA)
Photographic Portraits in Anthropological and Ethnological British Journals 1860-1900 (Valerie Morrison, Dijon, France)