12th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium

Kansas State University

March 6-8, 2003

THURSDAY, MARCH 6

1:30 - 2:45 p.m.

Session 1: Narrative. Union 207. Moderator: Jennifer Henderson (Kansas State University).

Sarah Hamblin (Kansas State University), &1xbet online sports betting ;Lives are Lived, Stories are Told: Fiction and Narrative as Modes of Understanding&1xbet online sports betting ;

Jay Douglas (University of Southern California), &1xbet online sports betting ;Locating Artificial Intelligence in the Cultural Space of Intelligent Narratives&1xbet online sports betting ;

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Session 2A: Gender. Union 207. Moderator: Bonnie Nelson (Kansas State University).

• Megan Urbanek (Kansas State University), &1xbet online sports betting ;Bodies That Matter?: The Question of Gender on the Internet&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Karen Wendy Gilbert, &1xbet online sports betting ;A Woman on the Edge of Time: Some Reflections&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Michele Marie Casavant (University of Kansas), &1xbet online sports betting ;Doctor Who?: The Othering of a Hologram Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager&1xbet online sports betting ;

Session 2B: Androids, Cyborgs, and Artificial Intelligence. Union 209. Moderator: Lyman Baker (Kansas State University).

• Randall Knoper (University of Massachusetts), &1xbet online sports betting ;Neural Nets, Net Art&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Stephen Glaister (Kansas State University), &1xbet online sports betting ;Saving AI: Artificial Intelligence&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Stephen Kiefer (Kansas State University), &1xbet online sports betting ;Brain Power from a Different Perspective&1xbet online sports betting ;

5:00 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner

7:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker: 1xbet online, &1xbet online sports betting ;Science Fiction: The Brain Goes Wild.&1xbet online sports betting ; Union 212.

Followed by Reception

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FRIDAY, MARCH 7

9:00 - 10:15 a.m.

Session 3A: Victorian Studies. Union 207. Moderator: Naomi Wood (Kansas State University).

• Tracy Candelaria (University of Kansas), &1xbet online sports betting ;'World Gone Mad': Facing Insanity in The Invisible Man&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Erik McCarthy (University of Kansas), &1xbet online sports betting ;'A Malady of Dream': Flanerie and the Crisis of Self in The Picture of Dorian Gray.&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Joanna Harader (University of Kansas), &1xbet online sports betting ;Metaphors of Liberation in Charlotte Brontë's Villette&1xbet online sports betting ;

Session 3B: Social Control / Mind Control. Union 209. Moderator: Karin Westman (Kansas State University).

• Megan Bygness (Kansas State University), &1xbet online sports betting ;The Commodification of Intelligence: AI and the Human Struggle for Survival&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Jill Clingan (Kansas State University), &1xbet online sports betting ;Breaking out of the Machine: The Human Mind Versus the Machine Mind in The Prisoner&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Dana Dragunoiu, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Matrix and the Limits of the Posthuman&1xbet online sports betting ;

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon

Session 4A: American Studies. Union 207. Moderator: Elizabeth Dodd (Kansas State University).

• John Matson (Princeton University), &1xbet online sports betting ;The Body Telegraphic: The Network of Spiritualism, 'Electrical Psychology' and Telecommunications in Mark Twain’s 'Mental Telegraph'&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Eric Goldman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), &1xbet online sports betting ;The 'Cerebral' Poetry of Emily Dickinson&1xbet online sports betting ;
• David Schuster (University of California, Santa Barbara), &1xbet online sports betting ;Rational Intellect and Creative Culture: Neurasthenia, Dr. Mitchell, and Patients in Late-Nineteenth Century America&1xbet online sports betting ;

Session 4B: Other Kinds of Consciousness. Union 209. Moderator: Dean Hall (Kansas State University).

• Shawn Thomson (University of Kansas), &1xbet online sports betting ;Walking in the Maze: An Investigation of the Relational Consciousness in W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn&1xbet online sports betting ;
• John Bruni (University of Kansas), &1xbet online sports betting ;Furry Logic: Thinking Empire in Jack London's The Call of the Wild&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Cheryl Lester (University of Kansas), &1xbet online sports betting ;Bowen family theory&1xbet online sports betting ;

12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:15 p.m.

Session 5A: Emotion and Twentieth-Century Thought. Union 207. Moderator: Laurie Bagby (Kansas State University).

• Gregory J. Seigworth (Millersville University), &1xbet online sports betting ;Soft Freud and the Affect Machine&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Holly Hutton, &1xbet online sports betting ;America, Emotion, and Ideas in Jean-Paul Sartre&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Mark Harrison (University of Pittsburgh), &1xbet online sports betting ;E.T.'s, Structures of Feeling and the Cultural Imaginary&1xbet online sports betting ;

Session 5B: Computers, Trust, and Understanding. Union 209.

• Session 5B has been cancelled.

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.

Session 6A: Discourse and Emotion. Union 207. Moderator: Jim Machor (Kansas State University).

• Brandy Parris (University of Washington), &1xbet online sports betting ;Domestic Emotional Practice in the 'Happy Home'&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Rebecca Barrett (University of Kansas), &1xbet online sports betting ;Sentiment and Sympathy: Reading Christian Romance Novels&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Dorice Williams Elliott (University of Kansas), &1xbet online sports betting ;'She Sat Down to Think and Be Miserable': Representing Consciousness through Free Indirect Discourse in 19th Century Fiction&1xbet online sports betting ;

Session 6B: Race, Culture, Consciousness. Union 209. Moderator: María T. Melgarejo (Kansas State University).

• Doug Harvey (University of Kansas), &1xbet online sports betting ;Art, Vision, and Knowledge: Cultural Intermediaries, Syntheses, and Enhanced 'Being'&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Steve Martinot, &1xbet online sports betting ;The Cyber-Semiotics of White Racialized Identity&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Mathias Nilges (Kansas State University), &1xbet online sports betting ;'Semiotic Guerilla Warfare' (Eco) – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee: Arguing for a Strategic Spoiling of Reading Pleasure in Women’s/Minorities Literature&1xbet online sports betting ;

5:00 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner

8:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: 1xbet best casino, &1xbet online sports betting ;Coding the Signifier.&1xbet online sports betting ; Little Theater, Union.

Followed by Reception

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SATURDAY, MARCH 8

9:00 - 10:15 a.m.

Session 7: Thinking Machine Labor. Union 207. Moderator: Lee Behlman (Kansas State University).

• Peter Sattler (Lakeland College), &1xbet online sports betting ;Management, Paralysis, Telekinesis: The Art of Thinking in the Progressive Era&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Mobina Hashmi (University of Wisconsin-Madison), &1xbet online sports betting ;Cyborg Subjectivities: Labor, Bodies, and Productivity in a Global Economy&1xbet online sports betting ;
• William H. Hsu (Kansas State University), &1xbet online sports betting ;Emergent Collaboration in Hybrid Intelligent Systems&1xbet online sports betting ;

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon.

Session 8: Scientific Intelligence. Union 207. Moderator: Stephen Glaister (Kansas State University).

• Gregory Bringman, &1xbet online sports betting ;Confluences of 18th Century Evolutionary Theory and Alternate Historical Narrative in Denis Diderot’s Dream of D’Alembert&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Mike Anderson (University of Maryland), &1xbet online sports betting ;What Mindedness Is&1xbet online sports betting ;
• Allen Stoughton (Kansas State University), &1xbet online sports betting ;Abstraction, Actors and Computers&1xbet online sports betting ;

12 noon - 1:15 p.m.

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