[SCA-BMDL] Lecture form University of Pittsburgh Med-Ren Department - open to the public

[Margretha La Fauvelle]

The University of Pittsburgh's Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
and the Pittsburgh Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies present
the following lecture:

JONATHAN SAWDAY
(Chair of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow)

"Calculating Engines: Minds, Bodies, Sex and Machines on the Eve of the
Enlightenment"

Thursday, September 27th at 4:30 in the Adamson Wing of Baker Hall (first
floor) at Carnegie Mellon University*

*See the campus map, where Baker Hall is building #3:
http://www.cmu.edu/oldhome/visitors/map/

The lecture explores the fascination with the idea of creating artificial
life and 'thinking machines' in the pre-enlightenment period.  It
concentrates on the pertinent ideas of Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, and
Leibniz, but ends by exploring the 'anti-machine' of the late seventeenth
century, i.e., the malfunctioning sex machines of the notorious John Wilmot,
Earl of Rochester. Professor Sawday's major publications include "The Body
Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture"
(Routledge, 1995), and (with Neil Rhodes) "The Renaissance
Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print" (Routledge, 2000).

-- 
Nothing stays hidden under the sun.
Lady Margretha La Fauvelle
mka Margarita T. Rankin
Deputy Mininster A&S, BMDL
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