[Sci-tech-public] "Instability & Decomposition": Conference Announcement

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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>'Instability & Decomposition: 19th & 20th Century Moments in Art, Literature,
>Philosophy and Technoscience'
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>Friday, April 25
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>09.30 ­ 10.00   Welcome and Coffee
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>10.00 ­ 12.30   Techniques and Partitions
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>Opening Remarks & Moderation by Lambert Williams (Harvard)
>Kijan Espahangizi (ETH Zürich) on the Historical Ecology of Glass
>Constance Rivière (ENA) on Documentaries and the Real
>William Thomas (American Institute of Physics) on Dividing the Policy Sciences
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>14.00 ­ 16.30   Margins, Mainstreams, and Modes of Voicing
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>Moderation by Christopher Krebs (Harvard)
>Elisabeth Chaves (Virginia Tech) on The Dissipation of Critique
>Antoine Traisnel (Lille 3 / Brown) on Hawthorne’s ‘Chiefly about War Matters’
>Biliana Vassileva-Fouilhoux (La Sorbonne 
>Nouvelle) on Forsythe and Choreography
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>16.30 ­ 17.00   Pause
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>17.00 - 18.00   Keynote Address by David Kaiser (STS & Physics, MIT)
>Physics After the Fall; Or, How the Hippies Saved Physics
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>Saturday, April 26
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>09.30 ­ 10.00   Welcome and Coffee
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>10.00 ­ 12.30   Cannibalism, Crossroads of Crisis, and Quiet Revolution
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>Moderation by Michael Saman (Harvard)
>Marie-Noëlle Godin (McGill) on Joual, Writing, and Literature in Québec
>Kris Manjapra (UCLA) on Bengali and German Redemption Discourse
>Felisa Vergara Reynolds (Harvard) on Boubacar 
>Boris Diop’s ‘Le temps de Tamango’
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>13.30 ­ 15.30   Strabismus, Vertigo, and Transaesthetic Perspective
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>Moderation by Séverine Meunier (Harvard)
>Laurent Deflandre (ENS LSH) on Cityscapes and Floating Worlds
>Caitlin Haskell (UT Austin) on ‘Le Douanier Rousseau’
>Irène Salas (EHESS) on Architectural Ruins
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>15.30 ­ 16.00   Closing Remarks by Stefan Helmreich (STS & Anthropology, MIT)
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Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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