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DESCRIPTION:Brooke Penaloza-Patzak will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation
  on Wednesday\, November 17\, at 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled “Objects a
 s Data: Ancient Migration and Beringian Collections in and between the Nat
 ural and Human Sciences.” At its narrowest point\, the Bering Strait separ
 ates Asia and North America by just eighty-five kilometers. The name for t
 his region\, joined by the mammoth steppe up until the end of the Last Gla
 cial Maxim\, is Beringia. During the mid-nineteenth century\, the proximit
 y of these continents and new archeological findings galvanized new scient
 ific speculation that humankind had populated the “New World” via the Beri
 ng Strait. Proponents of the Beringia migration theory hypothesized that c
 omparative analysis of objects collected from either side of the Strait wo
 uld help elucidate the relationship between the old and new worlds\, and t
 he course of human diffusion and nature of human affinity more generally. 
 Situated at the intersections of scientific practice\, material culture st
 udies\, economics\, and geopolitics\, this talk uses the history of scient
 ific collection in Beringia as a lens through which to explore the problem
  of objects as scientific data in theory and practice.Historian Brooke Pen
 aloza-Patzak investigates how the interplay of scientists and the material
 s they use as data has shaped scientific networks\, disciplinary formation
 \, and practice in and between the natural and human sciences during the 1
 9th and 20th centuries. She received her PhD from the University of Vienna
 \, Department of History\, and is currently an FWF Erwin Schrödinger Fello
 w and Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania\, Department 
 of the History and Sociology of Science.This event will be held via Zoom. 
 A link will be circulated to registrants by 10 am on the day of the event.
  This event will be live with automatic captions.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Objects as Data
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