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This event presents 90-year-old documentary films taken by ecologist William Beebe and his crew the Department of Tropical Research, who made record-setting deep-sea dives in a steel-walled submersible called the Bathysphere. Most of these films have not been screened since Beebe showed them during his lifetime. They will be accompanied by a live improvised score performed by musician High Water. Jon Forrest Dohlin, director of the New York Aquarium, will introduce the films. Whale researcher Howard Rosenbaum will discuss marine ecosystems and underwater filmmaking with aquanaut and filmmaker Fabien Cousteau, Jacques Cousteau's grandson, after the film screening.

The NYU Program in the History of Women and Gender is hosting an upcoming seminar with Erika Milam, Historian of Science at Princeton, and author of the forthcoming book Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America, will present Old Woman and the Sea: Evolution and the Feminine Aquatic.

Is it a coincidence that the first city in Europe to publicly illuminate its streets was also a capital of the Enlightenment? Is there, in fact, a relationship between actual illumination and enlightenment as a cultural and intellectual phenomenon? This talk will explore those questions through an examination of public lighting in Paris in the siècle des lumières, seeking to show that the concerted effort to shed light on dark streets provides a vivid illustration of the Enlightenment in practice.