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DESCRIPTION:Containment: film screening and seminar discussion with directo
 r Peter Galison\n\nSynpopsis: Can we  contain some of the deadliest\, most
  long-lasting substances ever produced? Left over from the Cold War are a 
 hundred million gallons of radioactive sludge\, covering vast radioactive 
 lands. Governments around the world\, desperate to protect future generati
 ons\, have begun imagining society 10\,000 years from now in order to crea
 te monuments that will speak across the time. Part observational essay fil
 med in weapons plants\, Fukushima and deep underground — and part graphic 
 novel — Containment weaves between an uneasy present and an imaginative\, 
 troubled far future\, exploring the idea that over millennia\, nothing sta
 ys put.\n\nA film by Peter Galison and Robb Moss\n\n \n\nPeter Galison\n	Jo
 seph Pellegrino University Professor\, Harvard University\n\nBio: Galison 
 is interested in the intersection of philosophical and historical question
 s such as these: What\, at a given time\, convinces people that an experim
 ent is correct? How do scientific subcultures form interlanguages of theor
 y and things at their borders?\n\nMore broadly\, Galison's main work explo
 res the complex interaction between the three principal subcultures of twe
 ntieth century physics--experimentation\, instrumentation\, and theory. Th
 e volume on experiment\, How Experiments End (University of Chicago Press\
 , 1987)\, and that on instruments\, Image and Logic (University of Chicago
  Press\, 1997)\, are to be followed by the final volume\, 'Building\, Cras
 hing\, Thinking\,' that is still under construction. Einstein's Clocks\, P
 oincaré's Maps (W.W. Norton\, 2003) begins the study of theory by focusing
  on the ways in which the theory of relativity stood at the crossroads of 
 technology\, philosophy\, and physics. Image & Logic won the Pfizer Award 
 from the History of Science Society in October 1998.\n\nIn addition\, Gali
 son has launched several projects examining the powerful cross-currents be
 tween science and other fields. His book (with Lorraine Daston)\, Objectiv
 ity (Zone Books\, 2007) asks how visual representation shaped the concept 
 of scientific objectivity\, and how atlases of scientific images continue\
 , even today\, to rework what counts as right depiction. Further work on t
 he boundary between science and other fields includes his co-edited volume
 s on the relations between science\, art and architecture\, The Architectu
 re of Science (MIT Press\, 1999\; ed. with Emily Thompson) and Picturing S
 cience\, Producing Art (Routledge\, 1998\; ed. with Caroline A. Jones)\, a
 s well as Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research (Stanford Univer
 sity Press\, 1992\; ed. with Bruce Hevly)\, The Disunity of Science: Bound
 aries\, Contexts\, and Power (Stanford University Press\, 1996\; ed. with 
 David J. Stump)\, Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century (Kluwer\, 20
 00\; ed. with Alex Roland)\, Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectua
 l Property in Science (Routledge\, 2003\; ed. with Mario Biagioli)\, and E
 instein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science\, Art\, and Modern Cul
 ture (Princeton University Press\, 2008\; ed. with Gerald Holton and Silva
 n S. Schweber).\n\n \n
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LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Media@McGill | Containment: film screening & seminar discussion 
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/channels/event/mediamcgill-containment-film-
 screening-seminar-discussion-264534
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