A pre-release version of the documentary will be shown telling the fascinating story of artist and naturalist, Maria Sibylla Merian. Merian, who lived from 1647 -1717, was a groundbreaking entomologist. She undertook a scientific expedition to Surinam from 1699 to 1701, and was an artist and scientific illustrator during the Dutch Golden Age. Her careful observations from nature and her detailed paintings overturned centuries of assumptions about the life cycles of insects, spiders, butterflies and moths, laying a foundation for the system of classification of species used today. After the screening, join a discussion with the filmmakers John F?egi and Jo Francis of Flare Productions, and Londa Schiebinger, the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute.