“Filming Science” With Peter Galison and Robb Moss

The Gallatin School is proud to announce the Fall 2008 Albert Gallatin Lecture:

“Filming Science”

With Peter Galison and Robb Moss

Professors of science and filmmaking discuss their collaboration and the powerful cross-currents between science and other fields. Q & A and reception to follow.

Wednesday, November 19 at 6:30 p.m.

The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts

715 Broadway (enter at 1 Washington Place)

RSVP required at www.nyu.edu/gallatin/rsvp or (212) 998-7380

Please join our speakers for a special screening of their film, Secrecy, on November 20 at 5:00 p.m.

Presented by the Albert Gallatin Lectures Student Committee.

Peter Galison is a professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. A Pfizer Award winner in 1998, his books include How Experiments End(1987), Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps (2003), and most recently, Objectivity (with L. Daston, 2007). His film on the moral-political debates over the hydrogen bomb, “Ultimate Weapon: The H-bomb Dilemma” has been shown frequently on the History Channel and is widely used in courses and seminars around the world.

Robb Moss has taught filmmaking at Harvard University for the past twenty years. As a cinematographer he has shot films in Ethiopia, Hungary, Japan, Liberia, Mexico, and Turkey, on such subjects as famine and genocide. He has served on the documentary jury at the Sundance Film Festival and has thrice served as a creative advisor for the Sundance Institute documentary labs. His film, “The Same River Twice,” premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit award.

The Albert Gallatin Lectures bring a series of notable figures from the worlds of politics, the arts, business, and academia to New York University to discuss contemporary issues with students, faculty, and members of the wider community. Presented by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the Albert Gallatin Lectures reflect the School’s academic philosophy, which is firmly rooted in the idea that knowledge and understanding grow through conversation and collaboration.