12th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium

Kansas State University

March 6-8, 2003

THURSDAY, MARCH 6

1:30 - 2:45 p.m.

Session 1: Narrative. Union 207. Moderator: Jennifer Henderson (Kansas State University).

Sarah Hamblin (Kansas State University), "Lives are Lived, Stories are Told: Fiction and Narrative as Modes of Understanding"

Jay Douglas (University of Southern California), "Locating Artificial Intelligence in the Cultural Space of Intelligent Narratives"

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Session 2A: Gender. Union 207. Moderator: Bonnie Nelson (Kansas State University).

• Megan Urbanek (Kansas State University), "Bodies That Matter?: The Question of Gender on the Internet"
• Karen Wendy Gilbert, "A Woman on the Edge of Time: Some Reflections"
• Michele Marie Casavant (University of Kansas), "Doctor Who?: The Othering of a Hologram Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager"

Session 2B: Androids, Cyborgs, and Artificial Intelligence. Union 209. Moderator: Lyman Baker (Kansas State University).

• Randall Knoper (University of Massachusetts), "Neural Nets, Net Art"
• Stephen Glaister (Kansas State University), "Saving AI: Artificial Intelligence"
• Stephen Kiefer (Kansas State University), "Brain Power from a Different Perspective"

5:00 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner

 

7:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Nancy Kress, "Science Fiction: The Brain Goes Wild." Union 212.

Followed by Reception

 

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FRIDAY, MARCH 7

9:00 - 10:15 a.m.

Session 3A: Victorian Studies. Union 207. Moderator: Naomi Wood (Kansas State University).

• Tracy Candelaria (University of Kansas), "'World Gone Mad': Facing Insanity in The Invisible Man"
• Erik McCarthy (University of Kansas), "'A Malady of Dream': Flanerie and the Crisis of Self in The Picture of Dorian Gray."
• Joanna Harader (University of Kansas), "Metaphors of Liberation in Charlotte Brontë's Villette"

Session 3B: Social Control / Mind Control. Union 209. Moderator: Karin Westman (Kansas State University).

• Megan Bygness (Kansas State University), "The Commodification of Intelligence: AI and the Human Struggle for Survival"
• Jill Clingan (Kansas State University), "Breaking out of the Machine: The Human Mind Versus the Machine Mind in The Prisoner"
• Dana Dragunoiu, "The Matrix and the Limits of the Posthuman"

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon

Session 4A: American Studies. Union 207. Moderator: Elizabeth Dodd (Kansas State University).

• John Matson (Princeton University), "The Body Telegraphic: The Network of Spiritualism, 'Electrical Psychology' and Telecommunications in Mark Twain’s 'Mental Telegraph'"
• Eric Goldman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "The 'Cerebral' Poetry of Emily Dickinson"
• David Schuster (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Rational Intellect and Creative Culture: Neurasthenia, Dr. Mitchell, and Patients in Late-Nineteenth Century America"

Session 4B: Other Kinds of Consciousness. Union 209. Moderator: Dean Hall (Kansas State University).

• Shawn Thomson (University of Kansas), "Walking in the Maze: An Investigation of the Relational Consciousness in W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn"
• John Bruni (University of Kansas), "Furry Logic: Thinking Empire in Jack London's The Call of the Wild"
• Cheryl Lester (University of Kansas), "Bowen family theory"

12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break

 

2:00 - 3:15 p.m.

Session 5A: Emotion and Twentieth-Century Thought. Union 207. Moderator: Laurie Bagby (Kansas State University).

• Gregory J. Seigworth (Millersville University), "Soft Freud and the Affect Machine"
• Holly Hutton, "America, Emotion, and Ideas in Jean-Paul Sartre"
• Mark Harrison (University of Pittsburgh), "E.T.'s, Structures of Feeling and the Cultural Imaginary"

Session 5B: Computers, Trust, and Understanding. Union 209.

• Session 5B has been cancelled.

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.

Session 6A: Discourse and Emotion. Union 207. Moderator: Jim Machor (Kansas State University).

• Brandy Parris (University of Washington), "Domestic Emotional Practice in the 'Happy Home'"
• Rebecca Barrett (University of Kansas), "Sentiment and Sympathy: Reading Christian Romance Novels"
• Dorice Williams Elliott (University of Kansas), "'She Sat Down to Think and Be Miserable': Representing Consciousness through Free Indirect Discourse in 19th Century Fiction"

Session 6B: Race, Culture, Consciousness. Union 209. Moderator: María T. Melgarejo (Kansas State University).

• Doug Harvey (University of Kansas), "Art, Vision, and Knowledge: Cultural Intermediaries, Syntheses, and Enhanced 'Being'"
• Steve Martinot, "The Cyber-Semiotics of White Racialized Identity"
• Mathias Nilges (Kansas State University), "'Semiotic Guerilla Warfare' (Eco) – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee: Arguing for a Strategic Spoiling of Reading Pleasure in Women’s/Minorities Literature"

5:00 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner

 

8:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Katherine Hayles, "Coding the Signifier." Little Theater, Union.

Followed by Reception

 

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SATURDAY, MARCH 8

9:00 - 10:15 a.m.

Session 7: Thinking Machine Labor. Union 207. Moderator: Lee Behlman (Kansas State University).

• Peter Sattler (Lakeland College), "Management, Paralysis, Telekinesis: The Art of Thinking in the Progressive Era"
• Mobina Hashmi (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Cyborg Subjectivities: Labor, Bodies, and Productivity in a Global Economy"
• William H. Hsu (Kansas State University), "Emergent Collaboration in Hybrid Intelligent Systems"

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon.

Session 8: Scientific Intelligence. Union 207. Moderator: Stephen Glaister (Kansas State University).

• Gregory Bringman, "Confluences of 18th Century Evolutionary Theory and Alternate Historical Narrative in Denis Diderot’s Dream of D’Alembert"
• Mike Anderson (University of Maryland), "What Mindedness Is"
• Allen Stoughton (Kansas State University), "Abstraction, Actors and Computers"

12 noon - 1:15 p.m.

For any interested conference participants, we invite you to "Think about WAR in IRAQ," by attending the weekly anti-war demonstration sponsored by the Coalition for Peace in the Middle East, and held at the corner of Bluemont Ave. and Tuttle Creek Blvd (on the South side of Bluemont between 3rd St. and Tuttle Creek Blvd, across from Sonic).