Talk by Chandra Mukerji, UC San Diego. Comment: Paula Findlen. Chandra Mukerji is Professor of Communication and Science Studies at UCSD. She is author of "Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles" (Cambridge 1997), which won the ASA Culture Section Book Prize; "Rethinking Popular Culture." Co-edited with Michael Schudson (California, 1991); "A Fragile Power: Science and the State" (Princeton 1989), which won the Robert K. Merton Award from SKAT; and "From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism" (Columbia 1983). She is currently writing a book on distributed cognition, indigenous knowledge, material memory, and engineering of the Canal du Midi. Doing that work, she discovered a group of peasant women engineers, and has looked at their role in and their erasure from French territorial politics.
This presentation is part of the new series "Stanford Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society," which will convene at noon each Friday of spring quarter.