Hey, we miss you, too! Break up your quaran-routine with this special Untapped series. During the month of April, Science On Tap will host a weekly movie screening with Netflix Party. Guests can talk to our Science On Tap experts through the chat function, asking questions in real time and learning more about the myths and misrepresentations in some of our favorite movies.
Invite your housemates and join us for this social-distancing Science On Tap. If you have a Netflix account and a home computer, you can join our party! This is a FREE event, but preregistration is required as Netflix Party limits the number of guests for each session.
The three remaining April screenings are below. You may sign up for multiple screenings, but please keep in mind that there are many bored/interested people who want to watch and limited spaces! Click here to register.
How to access Netflix Party
All preregistered guests will be sent the link to the event’s Netflix Party prior to the event start time. It will also be available in the Digital Links section of the Eventbrite event. Make sure to download the Netflix Party extension for Google Chrome. You can learn more about Netflix Party and how to set it up on your computer at www.netflixparty.com.
Monday, April 13th at 7 PM: Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (PG-13) – A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.
Meet our Expert: Elisabeth Berry Drago, PhD
Elisabeth (Lisa) Berry Drago is a research curator at the Science History Institute. She also cohosts the Institute’s podcast on the odd and fascinating histories of science, Distillations. She was previously a public history fellow at the Institute, where she curated Things Fall Apart (2017–2018) and Age of Alchemy (2018–present). Berry Drago holds a PhD in art history from the University of Delaware, specializing in the representation of science and artisanal work, the history of the print, and artistic identity-making.
Monday, April 20th at 7 PM: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG) – Epic tale in which an intrepid archaeologist tries to beat a band of Nazis to a unique religious relic which is central to their plans for world domination. Battling against a snake phobia and a vengeful ex-girlfriend, Indiana Jones is in constant peril, making hair’s-breadth escapes at every turn in this celebration of the innocent adventure movies of an earlier era.
Meet our Expert: Katy Blanchard
Katy Blanchard is the Fowler/Van Santvoord Keeper of the Near Eastern Collections at the Penn Museum. She studied Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College before completing her master’s thesis on Mussolini’s use of Augustan monuments for Fascist propaganda at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She has worked as a field archaeologist for over 20 years digging at archaeological sites in Italy, Syria, and Israel. In 2015 she traveled with the Ark of the Covenant from Fort Worth to Edmonton as part of an Indiana Jones exhibit sponsored by Lucas Films. She was serenaded by a mariachi band at the border to Canada when the agents got excited about the contents of the truck. In spite of all this, she has never dressed as Indiana Jones, however she did dress as Willie Scott (from Temple of Doom) as part of an Archaeology Fashion Show in college.
Monday, April 27th at 7 PM: National Treasure
National Treasure (PG) – Historian and code-breaker Ben Gates has been searching his whole life for a rumored treasure dating back to the creation of the United States. Joining an expedition led by fellow treasure hunter Ian Howe, Gates finds an ice-locked Colonial ship in the Arctic Circle that contains a clue linking the treasure to the Declaration of Independence. But when Howe betrays him, Gates has to race to get to the document ahead of his so-called colleague.
Meet our Experts: Dr. Janine Yorimoto Boldt and Dr. Emily Margolis
Dr. Janine Yorimoto Boldt is the 2018-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the American Philosophical Society Library & Museum. She is the lead curator of the 2020 exhibition, Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist and was co-curator of Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic. She received her PhD in American Studies from William & Mary in 2018 and specializes in the study of colonial portraiture.
Dr. Emily A. Margolis is a cultural historian of spaceflight and SoT veteran. Fans may remember her stellar January 2020 talk, “Launching Space Camp.” As Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow (2019-2021) at the American Philosophical Society, Emily is co-curator of the upcoming exhibition Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist. She earned her PhD in the history of science and technology from Johns Hopkins University in 2019.
Image: Photograph of Science On Tap: Untapped at the Philadelphia Science Festival in 2019 (altered, of course). Photograph taken by Kyle Gronostajski