Description:

Please join us for a special screening of American Skies, a video-essay project developed by a group of historians of science, designers, and filmmakers in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe.

The project leader, Nydia Pineda de Ávila (UCSD), will introduce the project and speak to the group’s interest in filmmaking to create alternative languages, narratives, and methodologies for the history of science. The screening will be followed by a discussion and reception.

Hosted by the Program in Science in Human Culture and the Klopsteg Lecture Series.

About American Skies

American Skies is a series of eight video-essays by scholars in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Italy, and the U.S. who explore their relationship with the multi-faceted meanings of the heavens in colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This project, produced with low-cost technology during pandemic times, was born as a collective response to the constraints of standard academic research and communication formats that became even more acute with the dynamics of isolation. The series subtly joins personal archives with historical documents, obsessions with historiographical debates, and multi-sensorial juxtapositions with narratives of global history.