John Durham Peters (Yale), “A Conversation with John Peters” (Yale Environmental Humanities)

Event time: 
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 8:30am to 9:30am
Location: 
Luce Hall, Room 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Join us for breakfast and a conversation with John Durham Peters, María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies at Yale.

John is a multidisciplinary media theorist and historian.  He will teach the Shulman seminar in spring 2019 (dedicated to cross-fertilizing the sciences and humanities) on elemental media, the topic of his most recent book.  He is working on a media history of weather in the five media of words, pictures, numbers, sounds, and deities.

Coffee and pastries available at 8:00am.