Seminar 30th June 2010 2 p.m. University of Southampton Building 2 Room 2065 (L/T H) Arts Annex
The Cuvier Salon (1810-30): A Vital Inter-Space and Model for 21st-century 'i-zones'
Professor Mary Orr
University of Southampton
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- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/seminars/564
- Submitter
- Petrina Butler
Professor Mary Orr
Abstract
The salon immediately conjures up the worst (and best) of how Arts networking operated in European Enlightenment cultural contexts, but it seems largely irrelevant in today’s electronic age. Or is it? This presentation demonstrates how Cuvier’s salon at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris has much to tell us about vital interspaces that as yet are without their equivalent ‘i-zone’.
Speaker Biography
Mary Orr is Professor of French at University of Southampton and a member of the Webscience DTC Steering Committee.
Her most recent monographs include: Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts (Polity, 2003) and Flaubert’s Tentation: Remapping Nineteenth-Century Histories of Religion and Science (OUP, 2008). She has just been awarded a two-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship (commencing October 2010) to enable her current research, the discovery of the place and roles of women in early nineteenth-century European science.