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Please note that this talk will now begin at 3.00 PM on 4 April 2012.
Parthasarathy
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Date: 3/27/2012
From: "ben...@iitb.ac.in" <ben...@iitb.ac.in>
Subject: Talk at HSS: The Ethics of Uncertainty
Announcing a talk on "The Ethics of Uncertainty", by Prof.Sheila Bonde
of Brown University on Wednesday 4 April 2012, at 4.00 PM in the Seminar
Room of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Abstract and
speaker details below.
Parthasarathy
HSS
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Title of the talk: The Ethics of Uncertainty
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A number of disciplines struggle with the notion of uncertainty. I will
explore the role of uncertainty or incompleteness in thinking about data
and in representing results. I will focus upon five case studies:
outliers in large data sets, representing lacuna in physical objects,
textual
uncertainties, refiguring the Neanderthal body, and reimagining ruins in
archaeological and architectural representations.
About the speaker
Sheila Bonde is Professor of Archaeology, and History of Art and
Architecture at Brown University, USA. Sheila Bonde's research combines
archaeology, architectural history, spatial analysis and digital
humanities. With degrees from Cornell and Harvard, she has also served
as visiting professor at the Université Paris I (Sorbonne), has been the
Dean of the Graduate School at Brown University, Cogut Faculty Fellow at
the Cogut Humanities Centre, and Royce Family Professor of Teaching
Excellence, among other distinguished positions. She is the author of
the following books, and has written widely on issues related to ethics
apart from her major work in archaeology and art history.
1. Saint-Jean-des-Vignes: Approaches to its Architecture, Archaeology and
History. Louvain: Brépols Press, Biblioteca Victorina vol. XV, Turnhout,
2003, with Clark Maines.
2. Archéologie en Picardie, Soissons : L'abbaye Saint-Jean-des-Vignes,
Amiens, Ministère de la Culture, 2002, with Clark Maines. (also
available in an internet publication:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/picardie/les_services/definitions/archeo/diffusionhtml)
3. Glimpses of Grandeur: Courtly Arts of the Later Islamic Empires. Rhode
Island School of Design Museum, Exhibition Notes, Number 8, Fall 1999,
with Aimée Froom.
4. Fortress-Church: Architecture, Religion and Conflict in
Twelfth-Century Languedoc. Cambridge, England and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1994 (paperback, 2007).
5. Architectural Technology up to the Scientific Revolution: New Methods
and Interpretations (co-authored with Lynn Courtenay, Clark Maines,
Robert Mark, Elwin Robison), ed. Robert. Mark, Cambridge: MIT Press;
Sloan Foundation Series, 1993 (paperback, 1994).
6. Survival of the Gods: Classical Mythology in the Middle Ages.
Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University, 1987. Graduate exhibition
catalogue (supervisor and editor).
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