Special Presentation 6:30 Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Scientist Goes to the Movies - Proshansky Auditorium, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Tyson, astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden
Planetarium will screen scenes from the pivotal 1997 film "Contact." He'll distinguish science fact from science fiction, joined by Ann Druyan, who produced the film from the novel by her husband, Carl Sagan. Tonight's special presentation is part of the Center for Inquiry's "Scientist at the Movies" series. Free and open to the public.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Panel Session 7: 9:00 - 10:30
Red 7 Creative Integration: Science, Creative-Writing, Collaboration, and Original Voice--(ch. Gunderson) R. Brown, deBaise, Gunderson - Steinhardt Steinhardt School Room 403
Orange 7 Byrne/Eno: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts 1--(ch. Reddell) Reddell, Wolfe, Boon - Steinhardt School Auditorium
Green 7 Biosemiotics--(ch. Wheeler) Halton, Kirby, Lamarre, Wheeler - Dactyl Foundation
Indigo 7 On Mutaphobia--(ch. Zaretsky) Zaretsky, Bakke, Catts, Badion - Steinhardt School Room 508
Violet 7A Early Modern Observation--Ponten, Coppola, Chico, Waenerberg - Steinhardt School Room 6W
Violet 7B Approaches to the Fourth Dimension--Late 19th to 21st Centuries--(ch. Henderson) Lindgren, Throesch, Robbin - Steinhardt School Room 204
Panel Session 8: 11:00 - 12:30
Red 8 Teaching Science with Theatre, and Theatre with Science--(ch. Gunderson) Gunderson, Perkowitz, Zides, Abbott and Faraone - Steinhardt School Room 403
Orange 8 Byrne/Eno: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts 2--(ch. Wolfe) Clarke, Rapp, Reynolds, Reddell, Boon - Steinhardt School Auditorium
Green 8 Evolution, Race, Media--Orthia, Taubenfeld, Clough - Dactyl Foundation
Blue 8 Ecology and Technology--D. Turner, Bryson, Zuelke - Room Steinhardt School 508
Indigo 8 Bioteknica and Intelligent Skin--(ch. Sha) Willet and Bailey, Buehlmann and Wassermann-- Steinhardt School Room 6W
Violet 8 The Immaterial Cultures of the Ether--(ch. Henderson) Tresch, Henderson, Milutis - Steinhardt School Room 204
Lunch Break 12:30 - 2:00 on your own
Panel Session 9: 2:00 - 3:30
Red 9A Cinema and Cyborgs--Gaffney, Milgram, Weida - Deutsches Haus Conference Room
Red 9B SLSA Creative Writers Read 2--(ch. Otis) Martinez, Beasely, Paola, Otis (Sponsored by New York State Council on the Arts) - Dactyl Foundation
Orange 9 Negative Evolution: AfroFuturisms--(ch.van Veen) Conner, O'Gorman, van Veen - Steinhardt School Auditorium
Yellow 9 Opportunistic Infections: Disease and Power in Literature and Film--(ch. Garden) Garden, Laizik, Murphree, Neeman - Deutsches Haus Classroom 2
Green 9 The Idea of Evolution in Literature and Art: How Darwin Shaped Literary Theory and Modernist Art History Writing--(ch. Wunsche) Wolff, Karl, Marshall, Brauer - Steinhardt School Room 204
Blue 9 Phenomenological Contributions to an Environmental Ethics--(ch. Newell) Newell, Condella, Konopka - Steinhardt School Room 508
Indigo 9A The First Supper: Living and Working with Evolving New Art/Life Forms 1--(ch. Brahnam) Weininger, Brahnam, Salsali and Xu - Steinhardt School Room 6W
Indigo 9B Surrealism and Beyond: Astronomy/Astrology, Eidetic Perception, and Self-Transmutation--(ch. Sha) Schmiedekamp, Morrisson, Hoving, Mowris - Steinhardt School Room 403
Violet 9A Aesthetics and Affect--(ch. K. Benzon) McDonald, Thurtle, Rosengarten, Black - Deutsches Haus Classroom 1
Violet 9B Cybernetics 1--(ch. Clarke) Niebisch, Schmidgen, Hales - Deutsches Haus Main Room
Panel Session 10: 4:00 - 5:30
Red 10A Poetics and Memetics--(ch. Rowe) Rowe, Lattig, W. Benzon - Deutsches Haus Classroom 1
Red 10B Film and Theater: Scripts and Spectacle --(ch. A. Klein) A. Klein, Hoffmann, Schwartz, Hossain, Wong - Deutsches Haus Conference Room
Orange 10A Communication and Intelligence--(ch. Evens) Labinger, Miller, Reid, Evens - Steinhardt School Room 204
Orange 10B Techno-Literary Futures--(ch. Ciccoricco) Cetinic, Pressman, Tripp, Ciccoricco - Steinhardt School Room 403
Yellow 10 Making Loss Visible Through Fiction, Legislative Testimony and Legal Briefs--(ch. Layne) Layne, Swain, Leonard, Paltrow - Deutsches Haus Classroom 2
Green 10 Evolution and "Life"--(ch. Anderson) Anderson, Voskuhl, N. Brown, Hannah - Dactyl Foundation
Blue 10 Interrogating Fear: Bioterror, the Environment and the Construction of Threats--(ch. Subramaniam) Hartmann, Orr, Subramaniam, Zerner - Steinhardt School Room 508
Indigo 10A The First Supper: Living and Working with Evolving New Art/Life Forms 2--(ch. Brahnam) Shih, Angeli, M. Klein - Steinhardt School Auditorium
Indigo 10B Art Exhibition: Encountered--Salsali, Xu and W. Alexander- Steinhardt School Room 6W
Violet 10 Cybernetics 2--(ch. Clarke) Clarke, Johnston, Markley - Deutsches Haus Main Room
Reception 6:00 - 6:45
Business Meeting 6:45 - 7:30
Plenary Lecture 7:30- 8:30 Fordham University Lincoln Center, 12th FL Lounge, Lowenstein Bldg. Bring your SLSA badge to enter the building.
Lynn Margulis, "Evolution: Lamarck, Darwin, and the Inheritance of Acquired Genomes." Spanning a wide range of scientific topics, Margulis' publications include original contributions to cell biology and microbial evolution. She is best known for her theory of symbiogenesis, which challenges a central tenet of Neo-Darwinism. She argues that inherited variation, significant in evolution, does not come mainly from random mutations. Rather new tissues, organs, and even new species evolve primarily through the long-lasting intimacy of strangers. The fusion of genomes in symbioses followed by natural selection, she suggests, leads to increasingly complex levels of individuality. Her most recent publications include Symbiotic Planet: A new look at evolution (1998) and Acquiring Genomes: A theory of the origins of species (2002), co-written with Dorion Sagan. Indeed, over the past decade and a half, Professor Margulis has co-written a number of books with Sagan, among them What is Sex? (1997), What is Life? (1995), Mystery Dance: On the evolution of human sexuality (1991), Microcosmos: Four billion years of evolution from our microbial ancestors (1986), and Origins of Sex: Three billion years of genetic recombination (1986).
SLSA Dance 9:30 - ?
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Panel Session 11: 9:00 - 10:30
SLSA 11 Memorial for Michelle Kendrick, hosted by Robert Markley - Deutsches Haus Conference Room
Orange 11 Made Over in America: Cosmetic Surgery, New Media, and Celebrity--(ch. Wegenstein) Wegenstein and Rhodes - Deutsches Haus Classroom 2
Yellow 11A Evolving Humanistic Perspectives in Medical Literature--(ch. Bonk) Dolezal, Bonk, Donaldson - Deutsches Haus Main Room
Yellow 11B Nebulizer: The Asthma Files--(ch. M. Fortun) Sarkar, Hahn, K. Fortun, Doyle, Shields - Deutsches Haus Classroom 1
Green 11 Before and After Darwin--(ch. M. Giesenkirchen) E. White, Azzarello, Corby - Dactyl Foundation
Panel Session 12: 11:00 - 12:30
Red 12 Teaching Literature and Science: Those Who Can, Do--(ch. Roberts) Roberts, Avery, S. Turner - Deutsches Haus Classroom 1
Orange 12 Code as Media--(chs. Coleman and Wark) Chun, Galloway, M. H. Hansen, Coleman - Deutsches Haus Classroom 2
Yellow 12 Evolving Pedagogies of Humanities in Medical Education--(ch. Bonk) Nazario, Bonk, Nixon, Arjmand - Deutsches Haus Conference Room
Green 12 Darwinism and Society--Luberda, Hains, Howell, Greenberg - Dactyl Foundation
Violet 12 The Politics of Posthuman Becomings--(ch. J. White) J. White, Ferreira, Roy, Shackelford - Deutsches Haus Main Room
Lunch Break/ Wrap Up 1:00 - 2:00 bring your own lunch - Dactyl Foundation
