Jimena Canales Explained

Jimena Canales
Birth Name:Jimena Canales
Birth Date:20 October 1973
Birth Place:Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation:Writer
Notableworks:A Tenth of a Second: A History and The Physicist and The Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time

Jimena Canales is a Mexican-American historian of science and author with a background in physics and engineering.

Career

Jimena Canales is the author of Simply Einstein (2021),[1] Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science (2020),[2] The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time (2015)[3] and A Tenth of a Second: A History (2009)[4] as well as numerous articles on the history of modernity; specializing in art, science and technology (appearing in Artforum, Aperture, WIRED, The New Yorker,[5] The Atlantic,[6] NPR,[7] among others).Canales obtained a B.S. in engineering physics at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in 1995, a master's degree in History of Science at the Harvard University and a PhD in History of Science at the same university in 2003. In 2004 she worked as an assistant professor in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University and in 2013 she was promoted to associate professor.[8] In 2012 she was senior fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie and in the summer she worked as a visiting professor at the Summer School for Media Studies at Princeton University in the German department.[9] In 2013 she was recruited to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science, which she held until 2017.[10]

Jimena Canales has collaborated with the philosopher Bruno Latour, the artist Olafur Eliasson and the cosmologist Lee Smolin.[11]

Her presentations on art and science has been featured at the Centre Georges Pompidou,[12] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA),[13] the 11th Shanghai Biennale[14] and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA).[15]

Awards and reviews

Source:[16] [17]

Books and selected articles

books

articles

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: 978-1943657452. Simply Einstein. Canales. Jimena. 14 March 2021.
  2. Book: Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science. 10 November 2020 . 9780691175324 . Canales . Jimena .
  3. Book: The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time. 4 October 2016. 9780691173177. Canales. Jimena.
  4. Book: A Tenth of a Second. University of Chicago Press . press.uchicago.edu.
  5. Albert Einstein's Sci-Fi Stories. Jimena. Canales. The New Yorker.
  6. Web site: The Secret PR Push That Shaped the Atomic Bomb's Origin Story. Jimena. Canales. April 18, 2017. The Atlantic.
  7. NPR 2018/01/09, 2018/01/15, 2018/03/13
  8. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/5/12/history-of-science-reinvents-tutorials-the/. http://www.thecrimson.com/column/bargain-hunting-fall-2010/article/2010/9/5/class-science-title-professors/. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/11/2/music-sound-timbre-sheldon/
  9. http://www.ikkm-weimar.de/en/fellows/former-fellows/jimena-canales/ . http://german.princeton.edu/ssms/academic-staff-2/academic-staff-2012/jimena-canales/
  10. Web site: Siebel Chair in the History of Science at Illinois Named - Yahoo Finance . 2017-01-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402141743/http://finance.yahoo.com/news/siebel-chair-history-science-illinois-203000632.html . 2015-04-02 . . http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141030006706/en/Siebel-Chair-History-Science-Illinois-Named#.VQ4gSMaRk7A. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-05-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402174642/http://www.history.illinois.edu/news/newsletters/documents/HistoryNewsletter2014.pdf . 2015-04-02 . . http://www.trustees.uillinois.edu/trustees/agenda/November-14-2013/003-nov-Appointments.pdf
  11. http://www.e-flux.com/journal/some-experiments-in-art-and-politics/. Web site: Festival of Future Nows | Institut für Raumexperimente . 2015-05-04 . dead . https://archive.today/20150324074646/http://futurenows.net/entry/institut-fur-raumexperimente/ . 2015-03-24 .
  12. Web site: Some Experiments in Art and Politics - Journal #23 March 2011 - e-flux. www.e-flux.com.
  13. Web site: The Photographic Event · SFMOMA. www.sfmoma.org.
  14. Web site: Why Not Ask Again: Arguments, Counter-arguments, and Stories - Announcements - e-flux. www.e-flux.com.
  15. Web site: The Artist's Voice: Trevor Paglen and Jimena Canales | icaboston.org. www.icaboston.org.
  16. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-05-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402174642/http://www.history.illinois.edu/news/newsletters/documents/HistoryNewsletter2014.pdf . 2015-04-02 .
  17. Web site: Lectures and Awards. jimenacanales.org. 2015-05-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402145646/http://www.jimenacanales.org/lectures-and-awards/. 2015-04-02. dead.
  18. Web site: Cosmos 2022, gran finale al Teatro Cilea. La giuria incorona Jimena Canales e il Maestro Nicola Piovani incanta il pubblico. 2 October 2022.
  19. Cep. Casey. Science's Demons, from Descartes to Darwin and Beyond. . January 8, 2021. January 15, 2021.
  20. News: Keiser. Jess. The shadowy spirits that helped advance science. . December 24, 2020. January 15, 2021.
  21. News: Top 10 books about time. Alan. Burdick. The Guardian . January 10, 2018. www.theguardian.com.
  22. Web site: Books of the year. The Tablet.
  23. Web site: 25 intelectuales que redefinen el pensamiento iberoamericano - Esglobal - Política, economía e ideas sobre el mundo en español. 2016-12-11. 2016-12-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20161220094937/https://www.esglobal.org/los-25-intelectuales-estan-redefiniendo-pensamiento-iberoamericano/. dead.
  24. Web site: The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time. Maria. Popova. December 9, 2015.
  25. Web site: Irish writers pick their top reads of 2015. independent. 27 December 2015 .
  26. Web site: The Best Science Books of 2015.
  27. Web site: ACLS American Council of Learned Societies | www.acls.org - Results. www.acls.org. 2015-05-04. 2019-08-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20190819235229/https://www.acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=56478196-578D-E111-BD9E-000C293A51F7. dead.
  28. Web site: Books Supported by the Bevington Fund. 5 May 2015. uchicago.edu. 4 May 2015. 18 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170818131602/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/list/bevingtonFund.html. dead.
  29. Web site: Newsletter . www.icohtec.org . 2012 . 2020-04-28.

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