Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University (Fellow, Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton)
Program in History of Science, Princeton University
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 3:09 am EST
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Place: 211 Dickinson Hall, Princeton University
Note: There is no pre-circulated paper for this talk.
This informal seminar will discuss examples in which various kinds of knowledge have been reconstructed through re-enactment of techniques and processes, in order to consider how such reconstruction can be employed as a source by historians to gain insight into the material and mental world of the past.