FRIDAY, 9 MARCH: REVISED PROGRAM
Howe Center, Bissinger Room (4th floor)
8:30-9:20 am: Registration Check-in and Continental Breakfast
9:20-9:30 am: Welcome remarks (CAL and IEEE History Center)
Session One 9:30-10:45 am: Morning Musings
Moderator: Sarah Minsloff (Stevens Institute of Technology)
James Steinhoff (University of Western Ontario), “Techno-Geist: The End of Media and Technological Horror”
Terrance Riley (Bloomsburg University), “Frankenstein as Enlightenment Science”
Gabriela Lopes Vasconcellos de Andrade (Universidad Federal de Bahia), “Contemporary Frankenstein: The Fictional Inimaginable of the Hyper-Present in Ex Machina”
David Havas (National Film Archive, Prague), “Jan Svankmajer’s Reanimation of Unconsciousness”
Session Two 10:45 am-12:00 pm: Intelligence and Discourse
Moderator: Bradley Fidler (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Gregory Yanke (Arizona State University), “Rationalizing Repugnance”
Mark McCutcheon (Athabasca University), “Frankenstein, Adaptations, and the Discourse of Technology”
Georgeanna Spagnolo (Drew University), “’First, let’s kill all the lawyers’: When Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence Collide”
Romel Espinel (Stevens Institute of Technology), “The Modern Library: Awoken by the Forces of New Technology”
12:00-12:30 pm: Luncheon (sponsored by the Office of Diversity & Inclusion)
12:30-1:30 pm: Keynote Luncheon Address
Rosalind Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“The Moral of the Story: Frankenstein and the Adventure of Technoscience”
Session Three 1:30-2:45 pm: The Vital Spark and Instruments of Humanity
Moderator: James McClellan (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Alexander Magoun (IEEE History Center), “Why Frankenstein went Electric”
George McConnell (Stevens Institute of Technology), “Neural Recording and Stimulation Technologies to Treat Neurological Diseases”
Siobhan Watters (Simon Fraser University), “Monstrous Births: Food as Posthuman Phenomenon”
Session Four 2:45-4:00 pm: Beyond Frankenstein
Moderator: John Horgan (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Brian Bates and Jennifer Bates (California Polytechnic State University), “Frankenstein‘s Additive Technology: Pastiche, Parody, and Technical Writing”
Max Bledstein (University of Winnipeg), “Writing the Monstrous: Sinister as Contemporary Frankenstein Narrative”
Catherine Siemann (New Jersey Institute of Technology), “The Gothic, the Romantic, and the Self-Aware: The Cruel Optimism of Frankenstein’s Creature in Penny Dreadful”
Farzad Mahootian (New York University), “Valediction of Monsters: Shelley’s Frankenstein and Lem’s Golem XIV”
4:00-4:15 pm: Repair to SC Williams Library
4:15-5:00 pm @ SC Williams Library, 1st floor: Frankenstein Exhibit and Reception (sponsored by Stevens SC Williams Library).
Exhibit Curator: Lisa Nocks (IEEE History Center)
Conference Concludes
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Conference Committee:
Robert Colburn (IEEE History Center), Susan Levin (Stevens College of Arts and Letters), Theresa MacPhail (Stevens College of Arts and Letters), Lisa Nocks (IEEE History Center), Alex Wellerstein (Stevens College of Arts and Letters)
Co-organizers: Robin Hammerman (Stevens College of Arts and Letters) and Michael Geselowitz (IEEE History Center)