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May
2
2018

Cancelled: Giant Power: Energy, Technology, and the Long History of Post-Truth America - Naomi Oreskes

CANCELLED

2017-18 TRUTH Dialogues graphic

When: Wednesday, May 2, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT

Where: Harris Hall, Room 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: Free; public welcome!

Contact: Jill Mannor   (847) 467-3970

Group: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

The May 2 event with Naomi Oreskes has been cancelled.

Please check out our upcoming TRUTH Dialogue on May 7 with Paul N. Edwards: Truth Under Siege—Making Climate Knowledge in an Age of Transparency, Skepticism, and Science Denial

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Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard. Professor Oreskes’s research focuses on the earth and environmental sciences, with a particular interest in understanding scientific consensus and dissent. Her 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, co-authored with Erik M. Conway, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and received the 2011 Watson-Davis Prize from the History of Science Society.

Co-presented by the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, the Science in Human Culture Program, and the Kaplan Humanities Institute.

The 2017-18 TRUTH Dialogues are a year-long conversation about knowledge crises and politics from humanistic perspectives, co-presented by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities in partnership with multiple Northwestern departments and programs.

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