Humanities Institute Talk: Ann Blair, "Historical Crises of Information Overload," October 7, 2015

Ann Blair
October 8, 2015
All Day
Room 100, George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave

Symposium with Chad Wellmon, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia to be held at 4:30 pm, October 7, 2015 in room 100, George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave.

Ann Blair is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard, where she focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe, with special interests in book history, the historical relations between science and religion, and French history. She is most recently the author of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age (Yale University Press, 2010), and her current research examines methods of working (reading, writing, and note-taking) among scholars and authors from 1500 to 1650, and in particular the role of helpers in intellectual work who have often remained hidden.