Hear how a theoretical physicist and an art historian joined forces to investigate total solar eclipses, breaking down traditional boundaries between the sciences and arts.
Henrike Lange of the University of California at Berkeley will outline a seven-year project on eclipses which she conducted with Tom McLeish (1962-2023), the University of York’s first Professor of Natural Philosophy and longtime contributor to York Festival of Ideas.
The result of their interdisciplinary study was the book Eclipse and Revelation (Oxford University Press, 2024), a behind-the-scenes investigation into labs, archives and museums as well as around fieldwork in astronomy, meteorology, animal behaviour, and ecophysiology.
Join Henrike to learn more about their work on their unique representation of total solar eclipses and a travel report from the April 8, 2024 eclipse in Texas. Your are invited to imagine a liberated mode of discovery, perception, creativity and knowledge-production across the traditional academic divisions.
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