February 13: Peter N. Miller—The Weather on 9/9/01
Presented by 192 Books, Peter N. Miller in conversation with D. Graham Burnett to discuss his book The Weather on 9/9/01: Newspaper Weather Maps and History (MER. Books, 2024)
This event will take place in person at 192 Books at 192 10th Ave on Thursday, February 13th at 7:00 PM ET. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. The discussion will also be streamed directly on this page. There is no login required. A recording will be archived.
Books will be available for sale after the conversation.
Peter N. Miller—The Weather on 9/9/01: Newspaper Weather Maps and History (MER. Books, 2024)
The newspaper weather map first appeared in the middle of the nineteenth century and a was a child of the Industrial Revolution at its height—its parents were the railroad and the telegraph—and has now been made obsolete by the internet and the smartphone. Miller shows us how newspaper weather maps present questions of historical thinking in ways that address anyone who ponders what it means to live in time.
Peter N. Miller is President of the American Academy in Rome. He was Professor of Cultural History and then Dean at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City between 2001 and 2023. He is the author of a series of books on the early 17th-century antiquarian Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, on the history of antiquarianism, and on the modern study of objects as evidence. He co-curated Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margarieta van Varick (BGC, 2009), Richard Tuttle: What Is the Object? (BGC, 2022), and Conserving Active Matter (BGC, 2022). His next book is On Conservation as a Human Science (Princeton University Press 2025).
Photo by Manuel Castells
D. Graham Burnett works at the intersection of historical inquiry and artistic practice. Based in New York, and associated with the Friends of Attention, he is interested in experimental/experiential approaches to textual material, pedagogical modes, and hermeneutic activities traditionally associated with the research humanities. Burnett trained in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, and currently holds the Henry Charles Lea professorship at Princeton University. A visiting artist at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki (2023), he runs the “Conjectures” series for the Public Domain Review, and is an editor at the Brooklyn/Berlin-based Cabinet magazine. He is the author of a number of books and essays.