Symposium: "Automata in History: Cultural Projections" (UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 1 February 2003)
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from H-SCI-MED-TECH. --RJ --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:28:07 -0500 From: "Carsten Timmermann, H-SCI-MED-TECH" [smtedit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU] Subject: ANN: Workshop on Automata--UCLA, Feb 1, 2003 Sender: "H-NET List on the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology" [H-SCI-MED-TECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU] From: norton wise [nortonw@history.ucla.edu] Southern California Colloquium in History of Science, Medicine and Technology Saturday, February 1, 2003 Royce Hall 314 Automata in History: Cultural Projections Organized by M. Norton Wise 9:00 Coffee 9:30 ANSON RABINBACH, History, Princeton "From Mimetic Machines to Digital Organisms: The Metaphor of the Human Machine 1750-2002" 10:30 DESPINA KAKOUDAKI, Comparative Literature, Harvard "When Things Come to Life: Technology, Modernity and the Narrative of Animation" 11:45 JESSICA RISKIN, History, Stanford "Talking Heads: Eighteenth-Century Simulations of Speech and other Bodily Functions" 1:00 Free Lunch (provided for all registered participants) 2:00 M. NORTON WISE, History, UCLA "The Gender of Automata in Victorian Britain" 3:15 BRIGID DOHERTY, Art History, Johns Hopkins "Mimetic Compliance: Doctrines of the Similar in Dada Montage" RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR LUNCH For reservations and information please contact Norton Wise: nortonw@history.ucla.edu --- End Forwarded Message ---