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A key to physic, and the occult sciences, by Ebenezer Sibly; London, 1795. Courtesy Bakken Library.

"Magnetic Phenomena, Therapeutic Practice, and Public 'Experiments' in 19th Century Europe" Featuring Daniela Barberis Slought Foundation | Saturday, April 03, 2004; 1:30 - 4:30 pm Free admission (Reservation not required) Organized by Aaron Levy, Lenore Malen Mesmer Syposium Series

Project Website (with 27 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11222/ Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents "Animal Magnetism and After: A Symposium." This one-day event on Saturday April 3rd, 2004, from 1:30 pm-4:30 pm, will address the history of Mesmerism in l8th, l9th, and 20th-century literature, political and social philosophy, medicine, and dynamic psychotherapy. Daniela S. Barberis is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Chicago for her thesis The First AnnŽe Sociologique and Neo-Kantian Philosophy in France. She was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin in 2000-2002, where she developed the project "Biological Sociology on Trial: The Durkheimian Criticism of Biological Models for the Human Sciences." She has published on French physiological psychology, hypnotism, scientific anniversaries and the development of sociology in France." Internal Links: http://www.thenewsociety.org/ This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of The Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia