Wednesday, 26 March 2014
12:30-1:30 pm
Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
University of Virginia School of Medicine
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The Kenneth R. Crispell Memorial Lecture in the History of the Health Sciences
ANIMATED SKELETONS
AND THE HISTORY OF DISTRACTION
Shigehisa Kuriyama PhD
Reischauer
Institute Professor of Cultural History; Chair, Department of East
Asian Languages and Civilizations; and Professor of the History of
Science;
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
How should we imagine the history of distraction? Is it true that the
internet has made us distracted in a way that we never have been before?
And, if it has, is that necessarily
bad?
What is distraction, anyway? In this Medical Center Hour, East Asian
cultural historian Shigehisa Kuriyama suggests that comparative
reflection on images of skulls and skeletons
can offer us illuminating insight into these questions, and into the
entwining of distraction with art, anatomy, curiosity, and early modern
global trade.
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series,
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
