The GSU history department’s 2017 Dale Somers Memorial Lecture will be given by Deborah Harkness, professor of history at the University of Southern California and a New York Times best-selling novelist. It will take place at 2 pm on Friday April 7 in room 830, 25 Park Place.

Professor Harkness’s academic work focuses on the history of science during the early modern period. She is the author of two academic books, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (Yale, 2007) and John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Cambridge, 1999). She is also the author of three novels, the All Souls Trilogy: A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life, which are being adapted into a television series.

This talk is free and open to the public.