Highlights from the inaugural meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society

Here are the video from last month Athanasius Kircher Society event –

…the Inaugural Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society was held on January 16, 2007 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. Four hundred friends and members of the Kircher Society were in attendance. For the public’s edification, a summary reel of the meeting has been made available online.

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Highlights from the Inaugural Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society – [via] Link.

Complete videos of each presentation are also available:

• The Meeting is Called to Order
• Anthony Grafton’s Invocation
• “Stump the Real Rain Man,” with Kim and Fran Peek
• Nate True’s Time Fountain
• Kircher Society Mementos
• Rosamond Purcell: “Snakestones and Flying Cats: Collecting for Kircher’s Ark”
• Romeo and Juliet: The First Ever Dramatic Performance in Solresol, Introduced by Paul Collins, Directed by Dylan Thuras
• The Man who Fell from Space: Col. Joe Kittinger, Jr., USAF Ret.
• Jesse Ferguson’s Polyreactory Assemblage of Contemplation, Gadgetry, and Exothermic Liberation, and the Meeting’s Adjournment

Make subscribers received a special book with the latest volume of MAKE 09 –