{"id":8507,"date":"2016-05-27T11:41:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T15:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2016-05-27T11:41:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T15:41:29","slug":"nummedal-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/nummedal-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement Forum | Word\/Image\/Text: Reading for the Philosophers&#8217; Stone in Atalanta fugiens with Tara Nummedal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8365\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/digital-publishing-pilot\/myofficialphoto-cropped\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8365\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8365 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/myofficialphoto-cropped-300x270.jpeg\" alt=\"myofficialphoto cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/myofficialphoto-cropped-300x270.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/myofficialphoto-cropped-1024x920.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/myofficialphoto-cropped-768x690.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/myofficialphoto-cropped-1536x1380.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/myofficialphoto-cropped-2048x1840.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/myofficialphoto-cropped-100x90.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/myofficialphoto-cropped-150x135.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/myofficialphoto-cropped-200x180.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/myofficialphoto-cropped-450x404.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/myofficialphoto-cropped-600x539.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/myofficialphoto-cropped-900x809.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Nummedal, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Library welcomes visitors to a Commencement Forum on <strong>Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 11 a.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab\u00a0<strong>and Sidney E. Frank Digital Studio\u00a0<\/strong>at the Rockefeller Library<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of Brown University&#8217;s new Digital Publishing Initiative, Professor Tara Nummedal will present on her upcoming publishing project.\u00a0<em>Project Atalanta\u00a0<\/em>will bring a multimedia seventeenth century text to life in digital form. This innovative digital publication will produce a dynamic, enhanced digital edition of Michael Maier\u2019s extraordinary text,\u00a0<em>Atalanta fugiens\u00a0<\/em>(1617\/18): an alchemical emblem book that<em>\u00a0<\/em>re-casts the myth of Atalanta\u2014the fleet-footed virgin\u2014as a series of fifty emblems.\u00a0Comprised of text, image, and music, each individual emblem engages\u00a0sound, sight, and intellect; read together, these emblems serve as an interlocking guide to alchemical theory and the production of the philosophers\u2019 stone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Word\/Image\/Text: Reading for the Philosophers\u2019 Stone in Atalanta fugiens\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/En91u_ON06E?list=PL2PwShbFBf4C1bxfcCRsYTbJtgaA7igH-\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a pilot project of the Digital Publishing Initiative,\u00a0<em>Project Atalanta\u00a0<\/em>seeks to bridge the gaps between the readers of today and their seventeenth century counterparts. By transforming the\u00a0<em>Atalanta fugiens\u00a0<\/em>into a dynamic digital object through the collaboration of historians, musicians, rare book curators, linguists, scientists, artists, and other scholars\u00a0<em>Project Atalanta\u00a0<\/em>reflects a dynamic, emergent form of interdisciplinary scholarship.<em>\u00a0<\/em>The University Library invites\u00a0visitors to come and hear about this unique multimedia text, and explore along with Professor Nummedal the implications of reading across time, cultures, and technologies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tara Nummedal<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0Associate Professor and\u00a0Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department. She is the author of\u00a0<em>Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire\u00a0<\/em>and is currently completing her second book, \u201cThe Lion\u2019s Blood: Alchemy, Gender, and Apocalypse in Reformation Germany.\u201d\u00a0Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and, most recently, the\u00a0John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is Past President of the New England Renaissance Conference and a member of the editorial board of the journal\u00a0<em>Ambix<\/em>. She\u00a0teaches courses in early modern European history and the history of science.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Saturday, May 28, 2016<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 11\u00a0a.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library welcomes visitors to a Commencement Forum on Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 11 a.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab\u00a0and Sidney E. Frank Digital Studio\u00a0at the Rockefeller Library. As part of Brown University&#8217;s new Digital Publishing Initiative, Professor Tara Nummedal will present on her upcoming publishing project.\u00a0Project Atalanta\u00a0will bring a multimedia seventeenth <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/nummedal-commencement\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Commencement Forum | Word\/Image\/Text: Reading for the Philosophers&#8217; Stone in Atalanta fugiens with Tara Nummedal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-projects","category-exhibits-events","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}