Coefficients of Disaster
European Cultural Studies Mary Favret, Johns Hopkins University
November 9, 2016 · 4:30 pm · 010 East Pyne
What work do numbers perform in literary accounts of destruction? And what might writers teach us about statistics?
This lecture puts in conversation recent work by W.G. Sebald and accounts from the turn of the nineteenth century, when statistics rose in prominence, to resituate the role of numbers in debates about moral feeling, sympathy and ethical response.
Eberhard L. Faber IV 1915 Memorial Lecture
Open to the Public
