Graduate Workshop-First Fall Session
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HAPSAT GRADUATE WORKSHOPS
Art from the Archives: Dutch anatomists, Mabel Hubbard Bell, and thoughts on creative engagement with history & science
What role might fiction and art play in the practice of history and philosophy of science?
In person event - Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
VC303
PhD student Nayani Jensen is currently working on a collection of short fiction capturing moments from the history of science. In 2022 she spent a summer as artist-in-residence at the Alexander Graham Bell Museum and National Historic Site, where she was tasked with creating a visual exhibit based on the life of Mabel Hubbard Bell to fill a gap in existing museum exhibits. Her creative work has appeared in in Nature, The New Quarterly and elsewhere, and she received the 2024 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for short fiction from the Writers’ Trust of Canada.
In this presentation, she will discuss her work at the Bell Museum and her short fiction, and the practice of playing and creating from archival materials. She will discuss the roles art might play in public communication of HPS, the tension between the practices of fiction and history, and the growing genre of “fiction about science.” She will also discuss the role creative engagement might play in filling archival silences, thinking ‘against the grain’ and asking different kinds of questions of history.
Graduate Workshop Organizer: Silvia Castillo Vergara
