Gregory Schrempp
Professor of Folklore, Indiana University
will lecture on

"Documenting Human Insignificance: the Idea of the Copernican Revolution in Popular Science Writing"

Tuesday, June 4, at 4PM
Rolfe 2310

Co-sponsored by:
The UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies
Department of English
Department of History
The Oral Tradition Studies Program

Professor Schrempp, a folklorist and anthropologist at the Folklore Institute of Indiana University, is the author of Magical Arrows: The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe (Univ. Wisc. P, 1992), a systematic study of the supposed difference between "scientific" thinking and "mythopoeic" thinking, as well as various articles on mythology, philosophy, and science. He is currently completing a new book entitled Mythic Visions: A Study of Popular Science Writing, which his talk will preview.

The Public is Cordially Invited