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Thursday, Oct. 10
6:00-7:30
pm: SESSION I
1A:
Medical Technologies
Muriel
Lederman (Virginia Tech), The Genomic Revolution: Secrets
of Life, Secrets of Death
Rosana Horio Monteiro (Tuiuti University of Paraná),
Taking pictures, making decisions. Narratives, social worlds
and the construction of cardiac knowledge
Kathleen Welch (University of Missouri, Kansas City), Life,
Death and Love in the Hum of Medical Technology: Using Poetry
to Script 21st-Century Perceptions/Projections of "Abnormal/Normal,"
"Artificial, Yet Human" Bodies and Minds
1B:
Technologies, Wonders, and Monsters: Vectors of the Human
Organizer/Chair: Benjamin Robertson (State University of
New York at Buffalo)
Benjamin Robertson (State University of New York at Buffalo),
What We Have Never Been: The Modern, the Monster, and the
Body
Leslie Graff (State University of New York at Buffalo),
The Wonder of Hermaphrodites and Evolution: Regress or Progress?
Gordon Hadfield (State University of New York at Buffalo),
From Primitive to Posthuman: Typography and Wonder in Charles
Olson's Poetry
Ryan Burt (University of Washington), Exploring the Posthuman
in Neuromancer: The Environment of Escapism
1C:
Calculating Life
Organizer: Vicki Kirby (University of New South Wales)
Chair: Elizabeth Wilson (University of Sydney)
Douglas Thomas (University of Southern California), The
Gift of Code: Computer Viruses and Writing as Digital Exchange
Thomas Lamarre (McGill University), Evolutionary Computation:
Between Natural and Technical Individuals
Vicki Kirby (University of New South Wales), Mathesis Naturalis
1D: Risk, Terror and Technology
David Flood (Drexel University), Loosing the
Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Bioterrorist as Portrayed in Fiction
Ursula Heise (Columbia University), Narrative in the Risk
Society
Kevin LaGrandeur (New York Institute of Technology), Terrorism/Hypermedia/Text
Greg Siegel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill),
"What Remains of People": Truth, Death, and the
Black Box
1E:
Performing Science
Cassandra Armstrong (University of La Verne) & Ed Housman
(Mitre Corp., retired), The
Nature of Information
Robert Doud (Pasadena City College): The Darwin-Aquinas
Dialogue
Dennis Summers (College for Creative Studies, Detroit),
The Crying Post Project
Paula Viterbo (George Washington University), I
Got Rhythm: Gershwin And Birth Control In The 1930s
1F:
Lenin, Imperialism, and Cultural Theory Now
Organizer/Chair: Amrohini
Sahay (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Brian Ganter (University of Washington), The Empire of Gift
(and its Relation to the Teaching of "Citizenship"
in the Global Humanities)
Julie Torrant (State University of New York at Albany),
Empire versus Imperialism and the Question of Reproductive
Labor
Stephen Tumino (University of Pittsburgh), Lenin and the
New Global Intellectual
Robert Wilkie (State University of New York at Albany),
How 'New' is the New Labor and (some notes) on its Relation
with Cyberculture
8:00-9:30
pm: WELCOME and RECEPTION
Friday,
Oct. 11
8:30-10:00
am: SESSION II
2A:
Medical Subjects in the Popular Media before 1850
Organizer/Chair: Hillary
Nunn (University of Akron)
Hillary Nunn (University of Akron), Human Dissection and
Professional Dissention: Publishing the Turf War between
London's Barber-Surgeons and Physicians
April Haynes (University of California, Santa Barbara),
Obscenity vs. 'The Medical Claim': The Trials of Dr. Hollick
Richard Wisneski (Kent State University), Warring Words
and Fighting Fevers: Popularizing Medical Writing in the
War of 1812
Liz Hutter (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Reading
Health in the Home and Administering Health for the Nation:
A Narrative of Nineteenth-century Domestic Medicine
2B:
Systems, Complexity, Chaos 1
Victoria Alexander (Dactyl Foundation for the
Arts and Humanities), Nonlinearity and Teleology
Luis Arata (Quinnipiac University), Interaction as Engine
of Creation
Sharon Lattig (City University of New York Graduate Center),
Acts of the Mind: Perception as Metaphor and Metaphor as
Perception
Leyla Ercan (University of Erlangen), Transversal Eco-Poetics
in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand
Plateaus
2C:
Darwinian/Cognitive Epistemologies in Literary Criticism
Organizer/Chair: Lisa
Zunshine (University of Kentucky, Lexington)
Nancy Easterlin (University of New Orleans), Ecocriticism,
Evolutionary Criticism, and the Nature of Environment
Lisa Zunshine (University of Kentucky, Lexington), Cognitive
Anthropology, Essentialism, and the Literary Motif of the
(Comically) Transferred Self-Identity
Blakey Vermeule (Northwestern University), The Computer
Game is the New Novel
2D:
The Posthuman Embodiment Project: Shaping the Material,
Emotive, and Phenomenological Manifestations of Twenty-First
Century Bodies
Organizer: Kathleen
Woodward (University
of Washington)
Chair: Katherine Cummings (University of Washington)
Robert Mitchell (Duke University), 'Leaving Good Enough
For All': Assessing the Rhetoric of the Biocommons
Kathleen Woodward (University of Washington), A Feeling
for the Cyborg
Phillip Thurtle (Carleton University), Animating Your Genome
2E:
Psyche, Soma, and the Production of Mental Illness
Organizer/Chair: Elizabeth
Wilson (University of Sydney)
Lisa Cartwright (University of California, San Diego) &
David Marcus (UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute), Affect and
the Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum
Jonathan Metzl (University of Michigan), Selling Sanity
Through Gender: The Psychodynamics of Psychotropic Advertising
Elizabeth Wilson (University of Sydney), Depression, Serotonin
and the Stomach
2F: Art and theory
Koen DePryck (Institute of Knowledge Management,
Brussels), Art as Feynman Diagram. (Or is it the other way
around?)
Paul Harris (Loyola Marymount University), Vehicles of the
Virtual: The Urban Vernacular of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers
Elliott King (University of Essex), "Dalí
Atomicus", or the Prodigious Adventure of the Lacemaker
and the Rhinoceros
10:30-12:00
noon: SESSION III
3A:
The Medicalization of Manhood in 19th Century England
Organizer/ChairBarbara
Tilley (Hilbert College)
Tabitha
Sparks (Emory University), Self-Made Gentlemen: Victorian
Medical Autobiography and Professional Masculinity
Barbara Tilley (Hilbert College), New Masculinity and Medicine
in Emma Frances Brooke's The Superfluous Woman (1894)
Susan Zieger (Stanford University), Addiction,
Masculinity, and Medical Professionalism in Horace Saltoun
and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
3B:
Systems, Complexity, Chaos 2
Maria Assad (State University College at Buffalo),
Metaphor And Simulation: Parallel Epistemologies?
Ellen Levy (Brooklyn College), Art and the Science of Complexity
Perla Sasson-Henry (United States Naval Academy), Chaos
theory in Jorge Luis Borges' "The Library of Babel"
and Stuart Moulthrop's hyperfiction "Reagan Library"
Jeff Lawshe (University of Washington), Hypernatural Histories:
Emergent Identities in Yamashitaís Through the Arc
of the Rainforest and Tropic of Orange
3C:
Poetry
Douglas Basford (Johns Hopkins University), Visual
Anthropologist as Hero: The Epistemology of Arthur Sze's
'Six Persimmons'
Hillary Gravendyk (University of Washington), Incising Illness:
Patients, Poetry, and Isolation
Ray Mize (Southeastern Community College, Whiteville, NC),
A.R. Ammons: Littoralist of the Imagination
Deborah Ross (Hawaii Pacific University), Charles Darwin,
Poet: or, Teaching The Origin of Species Across the Curriculum
3D: Science History and Literature
Holly Henry (California State University, San
Bernardino), Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science:
The Aesthetics of Astronomy
Stephen Kern (Northern Illinois University), The Progress
of Science and the Whatchamacallit of Literature
Laura Otis (Hofstra University), All Is True: Writing Anatomy,
Comédie, and History in the Nineteenth Century
3E:
Cultural Studies of Medicine/Psychiatry
Organizer/Chair: Bradley
Lewis (New York University)
Elizabeth Donaldson (New York Institute of Technology),
The Pharmaceutical Technologies of the Self
Bradley Lewis (New York University), Mad Science, Mad Pride,
and Mad Literature
Catherine Belling (State University of New York at Stony
Brook), Hypochondriac Narrative And Medical Suspense
Sharon Stockton (Dickinson College), "A kind of splitting
off of the phallus": Psychiatry, Literature, and the
Evolution of Rape in the 20th Century
3F:
Technologies of Globalization: Identity and Location in
the Postnational Context
Organizer/Chair: Stephanie
Turner (Cornell University)
Stacy Takacs (Georgia Institute of Technology), The Paradox
of Global Americanism in Independence Day
Stephanie Turner (Cornell University), Jesus
Redux and the New World Order in James BeauSeigneur's Christ
Clone Trilogy
Susan McHugh (University of New England), Agribusiness and
Farmeggeddon in Sue Coe's and Ruth Ozeki's Meats
12:00-1:30
pm: LUNCH (on your own)
1:30-3:00 pm: SESSION IV
4A:
Neuroscience (Cajal Sesquicentennial)
Organizer/Chair: Cecelia Cavanaugh (Chestnut
Hill College)
Cecelia Cavanaugh (Chestnut Hill College), Ramón
y Cajal, "Maestro de Muchos": Widening the Circle
of Influence
Dale Pratt (Brigham Young University), Ramón y Cajal,
Pardo Bazán, and the Hermeneutics of Discovery
Steven Meyer (Washington University), Altered States of
Consciousness: Gertrude Stein, J. Allan Hobson, and Amplified
Mechanisms of Neuromodulation
4B:
Thinking Through Metaphor
Organizer/Chair: Barbara
Reeves (Virginia Tech)
Commentator: James Bono (State University of New York at
Buffalo)
Barbara Reeves (Virginia Tech), The Scientific Revolution
through the Lens of Metaphor
Diana Palmer Hoyt (NASA and Virginia Tech Northern Virginia
Center), The Myth of the Frontier and the American Space
Program: The Ethical Challenges of Metaphorical Inducement
Laurie Robertson (Titan Systems Corporation and Virginia
Tech Northern Virginia Center), Conceptualizing Software:
The Effects of Metaphors on Software Development
Alan Beyerchen (Ohio State University), Metaphor and the
Military Mindset in an Age of Infowar and Biowar
4C:
Constructing knowledge
Dennis Desroches (McMaster University), The Facts
of Nature and the Question of Law in Bacon's Novum Organum.
Duncan Kennedy (University of Bristol), Empire and Knowledge
Alan Rauch (Georgia Institute of Technology), Knowledge
and Ignorance: A Study in Complementarity
Chris
Ganchoff (University of California, San Francisco), Locating,
Negotiating, Transforming; At Work in a Neurobiology Lab
4D:
Art, Science, and Science Fiction in the 1960s
Organizer/Chair:Linda Dalrymple Henderson (University of
Texas, Austin)
Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University), Robert Smithson's
Entropy Frames
Linda Dalrymple Henderson (University of Texas, Austin),
Robert Smithson, Science Fiction, and the Fourth Dimension
in the Mid-1960s
Anne Collins Goodyear (National Portrait Gallery), Science
Fiction, Space Exploration, and the Art of Panamarenko
4E:
Stories from a Science and Literature Partnership: Engaging
Interdisciplinarity in Theory and Practice ( roundtable)
Jeffrey Bonadio & Kari Tupper (University of Washington),
organizers/chairs
Jeffrey Bonadio (University of Washington). Kari Tupper
(University of Washington), Phillip Thurtle (Carleton University,
Elizabeth Rutledge (University of Washington)
4F:
"Eating Well": Cultural Studies, Food, Hunger,
and Globalization
Rob Wilkie (State University of New York at Albany),
Organizer/Chair
Jennifer Cotter (University of Pittsburgh), Delectable Feminism
or Subsistence Feminism?: For a Labor Theory of Gender and
Food
Kimberly DeFazio (State University of New York at Stony
Brook), 'Infinite Hospitality': Hunger and the Western Cultural
Imaginary
Robert Faivre (Adirondack Community College), Alcohol is
Sublime
Amrohini Sahay (State University of New York at Stony Brook),
Global Culture and Material Food: "Fusion Cuisine"
and its Class Other
3:00-3:30
pm: BUSES TO HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
3:30-4:30
pm: VISIT HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
4:30-5:30
pm: PLENARY LECTURE: Charles
Falco
5:30-6:30
pm: RECEPTION AT HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
6:30-7:00
PM: BUSES TO HILTON
Saturday,
Oct. 12
8:30-10:00
am: SESSION V
5A:
Health, Bodies, Biology 1
Suzanne
Black (Southwest State University), Becoming Imperfections:
The Overlapping Epistemologies of Pattiann Rogers and Rita
Levi-Montalcini
Jennifer Kuczenski (University of Washington), Objective
Bodies: Identificatory Conflict between Autopathography
and Medical Narratives
Sean Scheiderer (Ohio State University) Authority
Through Alliance in the Fact-(Un)Making of Popular Diet
Literature
5B:
Minority Interventions in Science and Literature
Organizer/Chair: De
Witt Douglas Kilgore (Indiana University)
De Witt Douglas Kilgore (Indiana University), Who Can Open
the Doors? The Racial Ground of Political Hope in Star
Trek
Doris Witt (University of Iowa), "One Small Step for
'The Man'": The Dark Side of the Moon Race
Jeffrey Alan Tucker (University of Rochester), Roots in
the Stars: Attitudes Toward Space Exploration in African
American Science Fiction
5C:
Rereading the Writing of the Book of Nature
Organizer/Chair: Arkady
Plotnitsky (Purdue University)
Arkady Plotnitsky (Purdue University), "In Principle
Observable": Algebras and Geometries of Writing and
Reading Nature and Art in Kant, Proust, and Heisenberg
David Reed (Duke University), Designs on the Book of Nature:
Written and Visual Presentation in Science and Art in the
Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions
Jonathan Goodwin (University of Florida), The Rhetoric of
Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science
5D:
Early Stirrings: The Interdisciplinary, Then and Now
Organizer/Chair: Amy
King (California Institute of Technology)
Amy King (California Institute of Technology), Gilbert White
and the Practice of Literary Detail
Nicholas Dames (Columbia University), Physiology and the
Rise of Novel Theory
Noah Heringman (University of Missouri), Natural History
Before and After the Disciplines
5E:
Art and Optics: The Hockney/Falco Thesis
Organizer/Chair: Amy
Ione (The Diatrope Institute)
Amy Ione (The Diatrope Institute), The Hockney/Falco thesis:
Rewriting History with a Bold Idea?"
Christopher Tyler (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute),
Sources
of "Opticality" in Renaissance Painting: An Analytic
Reappraisal
Michael John Gorman (Stanford University), Art, Optics and
History: New Light on the Hockney Thesis
David Stork (Stanford University), Optical Rebuttals to
Hockney's Explanations of "Opticality" in Early
Renaissance Painting
10:30-12:00 noon: SESSION VI
6A:
Health, Bodies, Biology 2
Maura Brady (LeMoyne College), Representing Stephen
Hawking: Science, Technology and Disability
William Etter (University of California, Irvine), "Physical
Affrightments": Edgar Allan Poe's Fictional Resolutions
of Bodily Crises in Antebellum Medical Science
Martha Stoddard Holmes (California State University, San
Marcos), Pain and Professionalism: Victorian Physicians
and the Literature of Pain Relief
Nancy Yanes-Hoffman (NYHealthCare Communications Group),
The Doctor As Scapegoat in American Literature
6B:
Roundtable On Race And STS
Organizer/Chair: Carol
Colatrella (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Mita Choudhury (Georgia Institute of Technology), Race and
Technology: the Unformulated Equation
Carol Colatrella (Georgia Institute of Technology), Teaching
Tuskegee and David Felshuh's Miss Evers' Boys
Cheryl Leggon (Georgia Institute of Technology),
Patrick Sharp (California State University, Los Angeles),
Darwinist Visions of Race Supremacy
Althea Sumpter (Georgia Institute of Technology), Multimedia
Ethnography: A Dual Discipline Approach for Disclosing Ethnicity
and Culture
6C:
Computing and information
Mark Hansen (Princeton University), The Digital
Topography of House of Leaves
Ziv Neeman (Columbia University), "The Machine Can
Be Redirected": On the Notion of Programming in William
S. Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy
Martin Rosenberg: Parallel Processing: As History; As Trope
for History
Ronald Schleifer (University of Oklahoma), Information and
Materialism
6D:
Edging the Work of Hillel Schwartz into Cultural Studies
of Science (guest scholar session)
Organizer/Chair: Stefan
Helmreich (New York University)
Respondent: Hillel Schwartz (University of California, San
Diego)
Heather Paxson (Pitzer College), Slow Food: Satisfying Ethical
Appetites
Stefan Helmreich (New York University), Life's Signature:
Designing the Astrobiological Imagination
Richard Doyle (Pennsylvania State University), Open Source
Simulacra and the Cannabis Genome Project
Michael Witmore (Carnegie Mellon University), "Simple"
Revelations: A Case ot the French Prophets
6E:
Picturing Space: Methods, Implications And Meaning
Organizer/Chair/Respondent: James McManus (California State
University, Chico)
Andreas Teuber (Brandeis University), Mathematical vs. Optical
Perspective: The Implications for Art and Art History
Melissa Katz (Brown University), Smoke and Mirrors: Artists,
Optics, and the Search for the Truth
6F:
Science and Religion
Murdo
William McRae (Tennessee Technological University), chair
Lisa
Long (North Central College), Beyond the Gates: Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps's Fiction, Post-Bellum Physics, and the Ends
of Science
Kristina Lucenko (University of Southern Mississippi), God,
Science, and the Notion of Experiment in Mark Twain and
Emily Dickinson
Deborah Scott (St. Joseph's University), Science as Messiah
in Isaac Asimov's Early Fiction
Murdo William McRae (Tennessee Technological University),
Omniscient and Evolutionary Knowledge
12:15-1:45:
SLS CONFERENCE BUSINESS LUNCH
2:00-3:30
PM: SESSION VII
7A:
Language and Semiotics
James
Glogowski (Psychotherapist, Private Practice), Aspects of
Language in the Human Sciences
Robert Markley (West Virginia University) & Michelle
Kendrick (Washington State University), Visual Knowledge
and the New Literocracy: Multimedia, Systems Theory, and
Incompetence
Mirko Petric (University of Split), Semiotics As Techno-Science:
From Society To Technology And Back?
7B: "In the Company of Men":
Queering Science and Fiction in the Twentieth Century
Organizer/Chair: Lisa
Yaszek (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Doug Davis (Georgia Institute of Technology) & Lisa
Yaszek (Georgia Institute of Technology), Queer as AI
Patrick Sharp (California State University, Los Angeles),
Science Between Men: Model Masculinity in Early Science
Fiction
7C:
Mathematics, Writing and Poiesis
Organizer/Chair: Sha
Xin Wei, (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Sha Xin Wei (Georgia Institute of Technology), Differential
Geometrical Writing as Poietic Technology
Helga Wild (WestEd), On the Passion of Reading a Mathematical
Proof
Amir Alexander (The Planetary Society), The Story in the
Signs: Narrative Structure in Mathematical Systems
Kenneth Knoespel (Georgia Institute of Technology), Diagrammatic
Writing and the Practice of Shape-Logics
7D:
Fiona Giles (guest scholar session)
Organizer/Chair: Bernice
Hausman (Virginia Tech)
Fiona Giles (University of Sydney), Reimagining Breastfeeding:
Return to the Lactating Subject
7E:
Varieties of Vitalism: Organism, Form, and System
Organizer/Chair: James
Bono (State University of New York at Buffalo)
James Bono (State University of New York at Buffalo), From
Form to Information: William Harvey, "Vital Materialism,"
and the Problem of Mechanistic Models of Life since the
Seventeenth Century
Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University), Narrative Vitalism
Timothy Lenoir (Stanford University),
7F:
The Fit Seems Natural: A Roundtable Exploration of Science,
Literature, and Ecocriticism
Organizer/Chair: Michael Bryson (Roosevelt University)
Michael Bryson (Roosevelt University), Janine DeBaise (State
University of New York College of Environmental Science
and Forestry, Syracuse), Sue Hagedorn (Virginia Tech), Christopher
Kuipers (University of California, Irvine), Jeffrey Thomson
(Chatham College)
4:00-5:30 pm: SESSION VIII
8A:
Latour
Roar
Høstaker (Lillehammer University College), Latour
- semiotics and science studies
Srikanth Mallavarapu (State University of New York at Stony
Brook), Latour and the Modernity that Never Existed: A Postcolonial
Perspective
Julian Yates (University of Delaware). Actor Network Theory
and the Practice of History; Or, "A Particular Fondness
for Oranges circa 1597"
8B:
Mathematical Proportions, Smooth Flow, Icon Restoration:
Scientific Ideals in Art and Design
Organizer/Chair: Isabel
Wunsche (International University Bremen)
Isabel Wunsche (International University Bremen), Biological
Metaphors in 20th-Century Art and Design
Christina Cogdell (California State University, Fullerton),
In Search of Smooth Flow: Constipation, Eugenics, and Streamline
Design in the 1930s
Wendy Salmond (Chapman University), The Triumph of Science
Over Superstition: Conserving Icons in Early Soviet Russia
8C:
Number Shape Word
Organizer/Chair: Arielle
Saiber (Bowdoin College)
Anna Botta (Smith College), Oulipo: Ludic Interferences
Between Mathematics and Literature
Sha Xin Wei (Georgia Institute of Technology), Topological
Media
Alexander Bertland (Hastings College), Myth and Number in
Giambattista Vico's New Science
Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College), Antirectilinear Satire
in Giordano Bruno's "Candelaio"
8D:
Biocultural Articulations of Embodied Maternity
Organizer/Chair: Bernice
Hausman (Virginia Tech)
Fiona Giles (University of Sydney), respondent
Gretchen Michlitsch (University of Wisconsin, Madison),
Flirting with the Possible: Lactation in Laura Esquivel's
Like Water for Chocolate and Louise Erdrich's The Antelope
Wife
Bernice Hausman (Virginia Tech), Viral Mothers: Breastfeeding
and HIV in the Third World
Kumiko Yoshioka (Ritsumeikan University), Maternal Feeding
As the Vanishing Point, or What Artificial Feeding Really
Substituted For
8E:
Robots and cyborgs
Chair:
Dawn Dietrich (Western Washington University)
M ichael Filas (Westfield State College), The Cyborg Tragedy
Greg Garvey (Quinnipiac University), Gnosis, Monads, and
Virtual Beings
Eve Keller (Fordham University), Rodney Brooks Meets the
Galenic Man: Humanoid Robots and Early-Modern Medicine
Sidney Perkowitz (Emory University), The Good, the Bad,
and the Artificial: From Mechanical Ducks to Digital People
8F:
Ecology, climatology, geography
Neal Bukeavich (King's College), "A World
of New Immensities": Science, Society, and Ecology
in H.G. Wells's The Food of the Gods
Mark Sander (University of California, Los Angeles), The
Aesthetic and Moral Concepts of Life in Artificial Life
Research
Harry Steward (Clark University), The Literary Surveyor
Daniel Tripp (West Virginia University), Climate, Labor,
and Race in the Cultural Imagination
9:30-?:
MUSIC AND DANCE SLS STYLE WITH THE
ATOMIC BLUES BAND
Sunday,
Oct. 13
8:30-10:00
am: SESSION IX
9A:
Film
Gregory Bringman (University of Minnesota), A
Concept of Michel Serres applied to Felix Bodin's Novel:
A reading of the Wave-Particle function in Memoirs of the
Nineteenth Century: A Digital Uchronia
David Kirby (Cornell University), Science Consultants, Hollywood
Films, and the Role of Fictional Representation in Scientific
Practice
Shoshana Milgram-Knapp (Virginia Tech), Ayn Rand's Top Secret:
A Screenplay about the Development of the Atomic Bomb
9B:
Against Determinism: New Perspectives on American Naturalism
Organizer/Chair: Lynn
Wardley (Stanford University)
Jennifer Fleissner (University of California, Los Angeles),
The Feeling of Incompleteness: Obsession-Compulsion and
Naturalist Fiction
Lynn Wardley (Stanford University), "Some Splendid
Animal": Nietzsche, Biology, and The Awakening
Michele Pridmore-Brown (Stanford University), Henry Adams
and his Quantitative Turn
9C:
Occult science
Stephanie Hawkins (State University of New York
at Buffalo), Signifying Curie: Marie Curie and the Cult
of Radium
Mark Morrison (Pennsylvania State University), The Alchemical
Society and the Boundaries of Atomic Theory
M. E. Warlick (University of Denver), The Foolish Alchemist's
Wife
9D:
AI
Mirko Petric & Inga Tomic-Koludrovic (University
of Split), From a Sociological Point of View: Evaluative
Criteria in the Field of Socially Intelligent Agent Modeling
Phoebe Sengers (Cornell University), The "Embedded
World" of Artificial Intelligence
Jim Swan (State University of New York at Buffalo), Virtual
Ethics
Sean Zdenek (University of Texas, San Antonio), Pygmalion
as an Origin Story for Artificial Intelligence
9E:
Gender in Medicine: Representing Patients, Wives, Doctors
Organizer: Nancy Cervetti (Avila University)
Chair/Respondent: Bernice Hausman (Virginia Tech)
Michael Blackie (University of Southern California), Rest
Cures and Literary Pursuits: Letters Between S. Weir Mitchell
and his Female Patients
Nancy Cervetti (Avila University), Osler, Johns Hopkins
& the Doctor's Wife
Cheryl Koski (University
of Tennessee), Learning While Female: Eight M.D.s Tell Their
Stories
9F: Colonialism, Transgression and Animal Embodiment
Organizer/Chair::Richard
Nash (Indiana University)
Kari Weil (University of California, Berkeley), Creating
a Thoroughbred-Human': Gustave Le Bon, Pierre de Courtivan
and the Politics of Sport Science at the Turn of the Century
Richard Nash (Indiana University), Inventing the Thoroughbred,
Purifying the English
Marie Lathers (Case Western Reserve University), "Merde!":
Coprophagy, Conservation, and Colonialism in Gorillas in
the Mist
John Bruni (University of Kansas), Of Dogs and Men: Jack
London's Vision of Animal and Human Struggle
10:30-12:00
noon: SESSION X
10A:
Embodiment
W. John Coletta (University of Wisconsin, Stevens
Point) & Dometa Wiegand (Washington State University),
Out of Our Minds? A Peircean and Environmental Model of
Embodied Cognition in the Context of S. T. Coleridge's "Outness"
of Mind
Ellen Esrock (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), The Body
as Reader and Spectator: Empathy, Embodiment, and the Somatosensory
System
Mark Larabee (University of Washington), From Human Memories
to Genetic Histories: Embodying Identity in the Age of the
Genome
Katharine Young (Independent Scholar), The Body in Space:
The Sensuous Epistemology of Gestures in Somatic Psychology
10B:
Thermodynamics
Barri Gold (Muhlenberg College), Social Thermodynamics
Elizabeth Neswald (Humboldt University), Concord Fictions
and the Entropy Law
Steve Weininger (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Ideology
and Thermodynamic Metaphors
10C:
Science and Public Representation
Michael Rectenwald (Carnegie Mellon University),
Early "Useful Knowledge" Periodicals, The Making
of the Useful Knowledge Reader, and the Education of the
Working Classes Debates
Michael Stivers (Independent Scholar), A Decorum for Disclosure:
From Secrecy to Security in a Manhattan Project Diary
Astrid Vicas (Saint Leo University), Popular Criticism on
the Web
10D:
Technologies of Invention : Cy Twombly and the Arts
Organizer/Chair: Yves
Abrioux (Université de Paris III)
Kenneth Knoespel (Georgia Institute of Technology), Cy Twombly
and the Diagrammatic Field
Yves Abrioux (Université de Paris III), From Notational
Systems to War Machines: The Twombly Effect
Noëlle Batt (Université de Paris VIII), From
Perception to Sensation: How do configurations travel? The
case of Cy Twombly
10E:
Childbirth
Virginia Agnew (University of Florida), Conceptualizing
Their Own Sexuality: The Construction of Maternity in Victorian
Discourse
Michelle LaFrance (University of Washington), The Next Holy
Virgin: Still Birthing the Other of the Other
Linda Layne (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Traumatized
Selves: Some Unintended Consequences of the Women's Health
Movement
10F:
Arguments in the Ontology of Science (Studies) (roundtable)
Organizer/Chair: Dennis
Desroches (McMaster University)
Karen Barad (Mt. Holyoke College)
Robert Markley (West Virginia University),
Arkady Plotnitsky (Purdue University)
12:00-1:00:
WRAP-UP SESSION
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