<div dir="ltr"><div><b>Please join us at Reed College on Thursday, March 31 for Miriam Posner's lecture <i>Head-and-Shoulder-Hunting in the Americas: Understanding Lobotomy's Visual Culture</i></b><br><br>Performing Arts Building 320, 4-5pm (Reception immediately following, 5-6pm)<br><br>Dr. Miriam Posner (Reed ‘01) Coordinator
and Core Faculty in the Digital Humanities Program at UCLA, will present
a lecture on her current research investigating the history of lobotomy
and the visual evidence doctors used to support this practice. This
lecture is open to the public and will be followed by a reception from
5-6pm.<br><br></div>More on Miriam:<br><img alt="Miriam Posner" src="http://library.reed.edu/assets/images/MiriamPosner.jpg" height="146" align="right" width="122">Miriam Posner (Reed ’01) is the Digital Humanities program
coordinator and a member of the core DH faculty at the University of
California, Los Angeles. As a digital humanist, she is particularly
interested in the visualization of large bodies of data from cultural
heritage institutions, and the application of digital methods to the
analysis of images and video. A film, media, and visual culture scholar
by training, she frequently writes on the history of science and
technology. She is also a member of the executive council of the
Association for Computers and the Humanities.
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