Benjamin Cohen, University of Virginia
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Brown Bag Lecture
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Place: 6th Floor Conference Room, Chemical Heritage Foundation
This presentation will be about satire and science (much of it chemistry), using the farm and other agricultural sites as the basis for discussion. It is a discussion about the early stages of a project Cohen has begun that seeks to place representations of cultural responses to scientizing nature into deeper historical context. His interest is in the cultural resistance to new knowledge practices; satire and fiction provide evocative, and sometimes funny, examples of such contestations.
Benjamin Cohen is an environmental historian and science studies scholar in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. His book, Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside, will be published later this year by Yale University Press. He is also the coauthor of the blog The World's Fair, which can be found at scienceblogs.com. Cohen maintains a wide interest in the converge