OPEN STACKS | #4 In the Archives: Lance Grande & Lorraine Daston
June 5th, 2017
Paleontologist Lance Grande gives a behind-the-scenes look into the world of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Intellectual historian Lorraine Daston discusses scientific archives as a locus of scholarly utopianism and melancholy.
This episode was produced by Kit Brennen.
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