Victoria N. Alexander
Sacred/Secular:
The Epiphenomenal in Post "Post-classical" Science
and
Sharon Lattig
Embedding Metaphor: On the Verge of Inside Out
Friday, November 8, 2002
2:00 pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409
rsvp: email@dactyl.org
Victoria N. Alexander (Ph.D. in English, CUNY, GC) is co-founder and director of the Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities in New York City. She has published a number of articles on intentionality/teleology, evolution, complexity, and literature and her most recent novel, Naked Singularity, explores these themes in literary form. Part of her dissertation research (on Narrative Theory and Philosophy of Science) was undertaken at the Santa Fe Institute (www.santafe.edu), the premier center for the complexity sciences. Her various honors and awards include a Rockefeller Foundation Residency (Bellagio, Italy), Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women Fellowship, Alfred Kazin Award for Best Dissertation (CUNY), and the Washington Prize for Fiction.
Sharon Lattig is at present a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation, under the direction of Joan Richardson, attempts to forge a theory of the lyric genre informed by recent work in neuroscience, evolutionary theory, and deterministic chaos. Ms. Lattig has taught literature and creative writing at City College and the College of Staten Island. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from City College where she studied with Ann Lauterbach. Her own poetry has appeared in various journals.The Twentieth Century Studies Group was founded in the fall of 2000 in order to serve those members of the GSUC community who do work in or related to twentieth century studies. We are an interdisciplinary, student-run organization interested in bringing together people from different disciplines (the hard sciences, the humanities, the social sciences, the arts) in order to share their work.
The Dactyl Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 1996 in the early evening of the postmodern day. Its programs are designed to develop an aesthetic that is informed by science, history, and philosophy and that takes into consideration both the intellectual and intuitive responses to art.