UCI Humanities Center co-sponsors Black Holes and Beyond


 Humanities Center     Nov 22 2019 | 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM Humanities Gateway 1030

9:45 Welcome remarks
Michael Szalay (English)

10-11:30: Panel 1--Histories of Science and Media
Daniel M. Gross (English)-moderator
1) Renee Raphael, “Media and modes of authentication in the mixed
mathematical sciences." (History)
2) Jayne Lewis, “Sleeping with Science” (English)
3) Andrea Henderson, “Victorian Linkages” (English)

1-2:30 Keynote: Peter Galison, Harvard University
“Philosophy of the Shadow”
(on imaging a black hole)

2:30-3 Coffee break

3-4:30: Panel 2--Scientific knowledge and its public dissemination
Erika Hayasaki (Literary Journalism)--moderator
1) Cailin O’Connor, “Misinformation” (LPS)
2) Steven D. Allison, “Solving climate change with the humanities and
sciences” (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
3) Virginia Trimble, “Astronomy has it easy!” (Physics and Astronomy)

Peter Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. In 1997 Galison was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; won a 1998 Pfizer Award (for Image and Logic) as the best book that year in the History of Science; in 1999 received the Max Planck and Humboldt Stiftung Prize, and in 2018, the Abraham Pais Award in the History of Physics. His other books include How Experiments End (1987);Einstein’s  Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps (2003); and Objectivity (with Lorraine Daston, 2007).  Among his films are “Ultimate Weapon: The H-bomb Dilemma” (with Pamela Hogan);  with Robb Moss, he directed and produced “Secrecy,” which premiered at Sundance (2008), and “Containment” (2015), about the need to guard radioactive materials for the 10,000 year future. 

Co-sponsored by the UCI Humanities Center, the Department of English, the UCI School of Humanities, the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Department of Logic and the Philosophy of Science, and the Department of History

Free and open to the public