Contact: Janet Crow, Hall Center for the Humanities, (785) 864-4798
LAWRENCE -- Professor, historian and author Robert Darnton will present "Poetry and the Police in 18th Century Paris" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov, 1, at Woodruff Auditorium in the University of Kansas Union.
Darnton's presentation explodes the idea that the present period is the first "information age." His lecture explores the power of poetry in pre-revolutionary Paris and the attempt by the police to suppress it. By following the police as they tracked illicit poetry through Paris in 1749, Darnton provides a vivid glimpse of a long-forgotten information system.
The recipient of many awards and honors, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Darnton also has edited and co-directed a 16-part French-American television series, "Démocratie/Democracy," which began broadcasting on French educational television in 1998. He is currently blending both old and new information ages with an electronic publishing project about book trading in 18th-century France.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7 p.m.
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