BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18257-3c2b1515bd0c78bd2932688ebdef4bae@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260411T231140Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T130000 SUMMARY:“Careful Science: Medicine, Gender, and Disability in the Early Modern F rancophone World” DESCRIPTION:\nOne of the most famous portraits of Marie de Vichy-Chamron d\, the Marquise du Deffand depicts her alone\, in a chair\, with a whit e cat on her lap and her gaze fixed somewhere outside of the frame of th e picture. This last feature\, unusual for portraits of the time and esp ecially those of the portrait’s painter\, Carmontelle\, is meant to emph asize the Marquise’s blindness\, making it one of her most central attri butes. While such portraits of blind men also exist (the famous English mathematician Nicolas Saunderson was almost always depicted with the eye s closed)\, their portraits tend also to highlight the accomplishments o f the men as they were surrounded by the instruments of their trade. To focus on Deffand’s blindness\, however\, is to grossly misunderstand thi s dynamic woman. Her voluminous collection of letters\, which includes t wo auto-portraits in which she describes her most important features\, h ighlight her dedication to honest discussion and a love for good company and great literature. In it\, the reader finds intricate considerations of what is happening within Deffand’s body as well as the treatments sh e undertakes for her ailments\, but they also find the traces of a vast network of mutual care\, as she describes her own ailments alongside tho se of her friends and caretakers. While there exist numerous studies on blindness and enlightenment\, almost all focus on blind men (and particu larly blind male philosophers). In this talk\, Rutler will examine how g ender alters one’s lived experience of blindness and how it also influen ces the perceptions of blindness by sighted individuals.\n\nFor more det ails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/careful-science/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

One of the most famous portraits of Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, the Marquise du Deffand de picts her alone, in a chair, with a white cat on her lap and her gaze fi xed somewhere outside of the frame of the picture. This last feature, un usual for portraits of the time and especially those of the portrait’s p ainter, Carmontelle, is meant to emphasize the Marquise’s blindness, mak ing it one of her most central attributes. While such portraits of blind men also exist (the famous English mathematician Nicolas Saunderson was almost always depicted with the eyes closed), their portraits tend also to highlight the accomplishments of the men as they were surrounded by the instruments of their trade. To focus on Deffand’s blindness, however , is to grossly misunderstand this dynamic woman. Her voluminous collect ion of letters, which includes two auto-portraits in which she describes her most important features, highlight her dedication to honest discuss ion and a love for good company and great literature. In it, the reader finds intricate considerations of what is happening within Deffand’s bod y as well as the treatments she undertakes for her ailments, but they al so find the traces of a vast network of mutual care, as she describes he r own ailments alongside those of her friends and caretakers. While ther e exist numerous studies on blindness and enlightenment, almost all focu s on blind men (and particularly blind male philosophers). In this talk, Rutler will examine how gender alters one’s lived experience of blindne ss and how it also influences the perceptions of blindness by sighted in dividuals.

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