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A featured speaker for the Humanites Colloquium Series, Professor Michele Speitz from Furman University will present "The Restless Wheels of Being: The Strange Natures and Romantic Machines of Modernity."   

Professor Speitz's talk will explore the interrelationship between early nineteenth-century aesthetics and the discourses of technology, inviting us to consider how this twinned legacy contributes both to our conception of and response to contemporary ecological crises.  As an aesthetic movement, romanticism shaped modern conceptions of what counts as human, animal, and natural as well as our ambivalent feelings about machines, and the questions we pose about our future and that of the natural world. 

The Talk will begin at 5:00 PM. 

Reception at 4: 30 PM.