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litsci-l-digest Tuesday, April 18 2006 Volume 01 : Number
172
In this issue:
FWD: SUB 06: Archaeological Sight: Viewing the Hottentot
Venus-Past, Present, and Future
SUB 06: THE MORAL OF THE METHOD
SUB 06: THE MORAL OF THE METHOD
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SUB 06 Mendel's Melting Pot:The Drama, Politics, and Science of
Making Americans in the Early 20th Century
SUB 06: Surrealism, Astronomy, and Astrology in the 1940s
SLSA 2006 Call for Papers now closed
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:16:37 -0400
From: "Wayne Miller"
Subject: FWD: SUB 06: Archaeological Sight: Viewing the Hottentot
Venus-Past, Present, and Future
Cynthia Britt
Cynthia.britt@louisville.edu
University of Louisville
English Department
Archaeological Sight: Viewing the Hottentot Venus-Past, Present, and
Future
This paper pairs French anatomist Georges Cuvier's report of his 1815
dissection of Hottentot Venus Sara Baartman and Foucault's concept of
archaeology to focus on three levels through which Baartman's story
could be and has been viewed. The first uses the language of the
dissection text to argue that Cuvier treated Baartman's body as a
monument to be read and dissected according to a priori notions of a
predetermined racial hierarchy. The second uses Sadiah Qureshi's
"Displaying Sara Baartman the 'Hottentot Venus'" to
illustrate a modernist response to Cuvier's dissection and to show how
Qureshi's attention to the "material processes involved in
Baartman's objectification, exhibition, and politicization"(233)
can be viewed as a start to the third level of analysis. This level
discusses Foucault's archaeological concept as outlined in The
Archaeology of Knowledge to consider in what further areas Cuvier's
treatment of Baartman might lead researchers. By using this
three-leveled approach to the story of the Hottentot Venus, we gain a
clearer understanding of the systems of power and of different
motivations involved in Baartman's story, provide new ways of
reconsidering this still rich subject, and illustrate the validity and
potentiality of Foucault's archaeological approach.
Keywords: critical theory, race, Hottentot Venus, anatomy, history
Cynthia Britt
Co-Director 2006 Watson Conference
Humanities Bldg. 315
University of Louisville
cynthia.britt@louisville.edu
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:41:45 -0400
From: "Thalia Field"
Subject: SUB 06: THE MORAL OF THE METHOD
Talk proposed by Thalia Field
Joukowsky Assistant Professor
Program in Literary Arts
Brown University, Box 1923
Providence, RI 02912
THE MORAL OF THE METHOD
Examining the popularization of "Experimentalism" (Scientific Method) by
French physiologists in mid-19th century Paris, this talk will trace the
shared interest in "realism" between the sciences and the arts at this
important juncture. How do values of freedom, experimentation,
expertise,
and accountability in both literature and the sciences reflect or trump
other moral questions? When art is for art's sake and science is cloaked
in
its own self-governing systems -- what can be said about the "general
public" the "audience" the "community" to whom the work is purported to
relate? The talk will take the efforts and ultimate failure of the
anti-vivisection movement as emblematic of the larger issues in both
arts
and science.
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:39:48 -0400
From: "Thalia Field"
Subject: SUB 06: THE MORAL OF THE METHOD
Talk proposed by Thalia Field
Joukowsky Assistant Professor
Program in Literary Arts
Brown University, Box 1923
Providence, RI 02912
THE MORAL OF THE METHOD
Examining the popularization of "Experimentalism" (Scientific Method) by
French physiologists in mid-19th century Paris, this talk will trace the
shared interest in "realism" between the sciences and the arts at this
important juncture. How do values of freedom, experimentation,
expertise,
and accountability in both literature and the sciences reflect or trump
other moral questions? When art is for art's sake and science is cloaked
in
its own self-governing systems -- what can be said about the "general
public" the "audience" the "community" to whom the work is purported to
relate? The talk will take the efforts and ultimate failure of the
anti-vivisection movement as emblematic of the larger issues in both
arts
and science.
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links and unsubscribing info:
http://www.law.duke.edu/sls
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:17:54 -0700
From: "Ally Miller"
Subject: unsubscribe me
Please take me off your list. I am barraged with many emails a day from
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list-serv, and I would like to be removed as soon as possible. Thank
you.
Ally Miller
(ally.miller@cal.berkeley.edu)
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:12:57 -0400
From: "Taubenfeld, Aviva"
Subject: SUB 06 Mendel's Melting Pot:The Drama, Politics, and Science of
Making Americans in the Early 20th Century
Paper Proposal: =20
Mendel's Melting Pot: The Drama, Politics, and Science of Making =
Americans in the Early 20th Century
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The 1908 drama The Melting Pot, written by a British Jew and
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backed by an American President, introduced into public discourse the =
central symbol of immigrant-host interaction in the United States. =
Overlooked to date, however, are the complex ways in which the play and
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the contradictory relationship between its author, Israel Zangwill, and
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his Presidential patron, Theodore Roosevelt, participated in and =
problematized trans-Atlantic debates over evolution, race theory and the
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developing science of genetics. This paper examines Zangwill's work as
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a deliberate intervention in these discussions. It places the play back
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into the context of the science of the period and looks at how Zangwill
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used "the Jew" to put forth a liberal theory of heredity and integration
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that ultimately reified race.
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Keywords: genetics, drama, immigration, Lamarck, Mendel
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Dr. Aviva Taubenfeld
Assistant Professor of Literature
State University of New York
Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
aviva.Taubenfeld@purchase.edu
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=20
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:10:27 -0500
From: aschmiedekamp@austin.rr.com
Subject: SUB 06: Surrealism, Astronomy, and Astrology in the 1940s
Surrealism=2C Astronomy=2C and Astrology in the 1940s
This paper explores the fascination of Surrealist artists with =
astronomy and its occult counterpart=2C astrology=2C in the 1940s=2E =
Although astronomy had first been brought to the attention of the =
general public in the works of the nineteenth-century =
scientist/occultist Camille Flammarion=2C it attracted new interest from
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the 1920s onward as current developments in cosmology were popularized =
in sources on the new Relativity physics=2C such as James Jeans=92s The
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Mysterious Universe=2E Flammarion=92s Astronomie populaire also
remained=
=
in print=2C and such books (and others) stimulated a range of
responses=97=
from Max Ernst=92s overt concern with astrology to numerous Surrealist =
works incorporating stars=2C planets=2C and the universe=2C in
general=2C=
such =
as Ernst=92s Bewildered Planet (1942) and Matta=92s Galaxies=3A
Mysticism=
of =
Infinity (1942)=2E I an interested in the relationship of the =
Surrealists to both mainstream science (as explored in Gavin =
Parkinson=92s forthcoming book) and to the occult=2C which bec
ame a renewed focus of the group in the 1940s=2E The heavens=2C as =
promulgated in sources on astronomy=2C such as Jeans and Flammarion=2C
an=
d =
astrology=2C offered the Surrealists a rich terrain for invention=97one
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that could be seen as either scientific or occult=2C according to the =
individual artist=2C as well as both ancient and absolutely up-to-date =
in terms of the latest popularizations of cosmology=2E
Keywords=3A Surrealism=2C astronomy=2C astrology=2C occultism
Paper Proposed by Ashley Schmiedekamp
PhD Student Department of Art History
The University of Texas at Austin
aschmiedekamp=40austin=2Err=2Ecom
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:34:08 -0500
From: "nyc slsa2006"
Subject: SLSA 2006 Call for Papers now closed
Thanks to everyone who submitted papers and panels through litsci-l this
year, and many thanks for your patience as we try out this new process.
We have received over 150 individual and group submissions. Further
submissions will go on a waiting list: send them directly to this
address:
nyc.slsa2006@gmail.com.
Individual submitters have already begun organizing themselves into
panels.
This is exactly what we want to happen. For panel self-organizers:
please
duplicate the abstracts and submitter information, bundle the panel
togethe=
r
into a single e-mail with all information pasted in (no attachments),
give
the panel a title, and send directly to this address. Please continue to
observe the 200-word limit per abstract.
Our aim is to send out acceptances as soon as we can, so that people can
ge=
t
their travel arrangements set up in good time.
All best,
- --
Professor Bruce Clarke
1st VP, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
Program Chair, SLSA 2006
bruce.clarke@ttu.edu
Victoria N. Alexander
Director, Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities
http://www.dactyl.org/
Site Chair, SLSA 2006
alexander@dactyl.org
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