Please join us for an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion structured around nine works from the Smart Museum of Art’s collection.
With a simulation by:
Noboru Nakamura
Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences
And short presentations by:
Nancy Kawalek
Professor and Distinguished Fellow in the Arts, Sciences and Technology at the Institute for Molecular Engineering
On interior atmospheres and theatrical artifice
Benjamin Morgan
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
On pastoral nature vs. the polluted city
Emily Osborn
Associate Professor, Department of History
On bad air and disease
Melina Blees
Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Molecular Engineering
On atmospheres on other worlds
Moderated by Mark Hereld
Senior Fellow, Computation Institute
A second roundtable on this topic will take place in the spring.
RSVP to aleonard@uchicago.edu. Space is limited. Students and faculty from all disciplines are welcome to participate.
Image: Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, Cloud Study, c. 1817, Oil on paper, mounted on paperboard. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Purchase, The Cochrane-Woods Collection, 1982.19.