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Subject:        Sept. 8, 2007 Fry-Jefferson Society Lectures
Date:   Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:10:20 -0400
From:   Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>


Saturday, September 08, 2007
*Fry-Jefferson Society Fall Program*
Time: 1:00
Place: Lecture Hall
Fry-Jefferson Society Members – Free, Nonmembers – $5.00 Reservations
required. Call 804-692-3900.
Special Guest Speakers will be Dr. Michael Gaudio and Dr. Joyce Chaplin.
Dr. Gaudio, assistant professor of art history at the University of
Minnesota, specializes in the visual culture of early modern Europe and
the Atlantic world (ca. 1500–1800). His forthcoming book, /Engraving the
Savage: A Civilizing Art/, examines how the early modern technology of
engraving has shaped western notions of the "civil" and the "savage."
Dr. Chaplin, the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American
History at Harvard University, is the author of /An Anxious Pursuit:
Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730–1815/;
/Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American
Frontier, 1500–1676/; and /The First Scientific American: Benjamin
Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius/. She is currently working on a
history of circumnavigation. In addition, please enjoy an exhibition
exploring Virginia as depicted by John White and Theodore de Bry. A
special opportunity for a tour of Special Collections, including
exceptional maps in the Library's collection, will be available prior to
the program for $15.00 and will include a boxed lunch. Call 804-692-3900
to learn more about the Fry-Jefferson Society or this program.
Invitations for the program will be mailed in August.

(posted at
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whoweare/events/index.asp?date=9/1/2007)