Speaker: Marion W. Copeland, "Animal Fantasies and
Animal Autobiographies or Blatant Anthropomorphism? Naturalist Novels or Nature
Fakers? Sentimental or Subversive?"
Speaker: Lisa G. Brown, "The Speaking Animal: Graphic Novels and the
Voices of Nonhumans"
Speaker: Katherine Bash, "Perceptual Poetry: The
Case of Janus Shade"
Speaker: Douglas Basford, "'It won't be easy and
can't be a pleasure': Aaron Kunin's Binary Hand-Alphabet Translations of Pound
and Maeterlinck"
Speaker: Ellen Moll, "Mathematics and Metaphor in the Poetry of
Sherman Alexie"
Speaker: Annie Finch, "The Metrical Code:
Poetry's Wordless Language"
Session 02 | Thursday, 1 November
| 5.45 ‚ 7.15
02.a Literature
and/as New Media
Chair: Pawel Frelik
Speaker: Edmond Chang, "'How ya doin', mon?':
Coding and Coded Race in World of Warcraft"
Speaker: Paul Youngman, "Pulling History or
Pushing an Agenda? Twentieth-Century German History and the World Wide Web in
Erich Loest's Reichsgericht (Supreme Court)"» Conference paper
Speaker: Orit Halpern, "'On the Malevolent
Vitality of Inanimate Objects': Temporality, Abstraction, and Difference in
Art, Anthropology, and Cybernetics"
Speaker: Benjamin J. Robertson, "Second Nature
and/in the Networked Society or, Cultural Production's Limiting Present"
Speaker: Michael G. Bennett, "Codes Legal,
Cyberspatial and Molecular in an Age of Technoscientific Adolescence"
03.e 20th C. Literary Codes
Chair: Kerstin Bergman
Speaker: Randy Laist, "Enter the Code: Cybernetic
Aspirationism in Don DeLillo's White Noise"
Speaker: Kerstin Bergman, "Codes and Deciphering
in Crime Fiction: The Dan Brown Examples"
Speaker: Luis F. Garcia, "Coding and Decoding
Scientific Knowledge as a Discursive Tool of Magic Realism in One Hundred
Years of Solitude by Gabriel García
Márquez"
03.f Inscribed Bodies
Chair: Cynthia Current
Speaker: Cara Ogburn, "Material Embodiment:
Shelley Jackson's 'Skin' Project and the Body as Page"
Speaker: Cynthia Current, "'Liminal Lives':
Fingerprints, Genomics, and the Disruption of Identity in Mark Twain and
Octavia Butler"
03.g
Poetry by Other Means
Chair: Arndt Niebisch
Speaker: Braxton Soderman and Daniel Howe, "The Aesthetics of Generative Literature: Lessons
from an Electronic Writing Workshop"
Speaker: Abigail Mann, "Dog's Code/God's Code?:
Designer Dogs as a Cultural Symbol"
Speaker: Carol Gigliotti, "Code t Informatics t
Animals"
Speaker: Susan Nance, "A Star is Born to Buck:
The Codes and Commerce of North American Rodeo Bull Breeding Technologies,
1990-2007"» Online materials available
Speaker: Tara Rodgers, "'The "Now" for the First
and Last Time': The Convergence of Cybernetics, Early Computer Music, and
Countercultural Critique in the Work of Herbert Brun"
Speaker: Jonas Williams, "Extra-Intentional
Development: Photography, Variety, and Memory Intervention"
Speaker: Joy James and Glen Lowry, "Working to
Code: Forensic Affect, Post-Identity Politics, and the Work of Larissa Lai
& Rebecca Belmore"
Speaker: Laura Wiebe Taylor, "Killing Technology
and Cyborgs with Souls: The Threat and Promise of Technoscience in the Science
Fiction Metal of Voivod and Fear Factory"
Speaker: Michael Klein, "Deciphering the Code:
Science Fiction Literature and the Human Cloning Debate"
Speaker: Michael Simeone, "The Mind On Screen:
Gadgets, Posthumanism, Video Codes in Adaptations of Philip K. Dick's Short
Fiction"
06.gDe/coding Women
in Medical, Legal, and Labor Narratives, 1840-1914
Chair: Matthew Anderson
Speaker: Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, "'Fear is a Folly which Departs with One's
Virtue': Bodies as Code in Fitzallen's Maine Factory Girl Fiction"
Speaker: Cathrine O. Frank, "'Let the
Experiment Be Made on the Vile Body': Tattoos, Women, and Victorian Legal Code"
Speaker: Jennifer S. Tuttle, "Recoding the
Chinese Body: Health, Illness, and Race in the Work of Sui Sin Far"
06.h Robots &
Zombies
Chair: Nick Knouf
Speaker: Eleanor Sandry, "Machine codes in
conversations with embodied emotional robots"
Speaker: Nick Knouf, "The vocal that is
non-speech: externalizing the unspeakable through interactions with a robotic
creature"
Speaker: Jentery Sayers, "You're Code! You Really
Are Code! Or, Zombies, Control, and the Digital Body"
Reception
| 5pm ‚ 6pm
Plenary
I: N. Katherine Hayles | 6pm ‚ 7.15
"Intermediation:
A Theoretical Framework for Code and Electronic Literature"
Day Three: Saturday, 3
November, 2007
Session 07 | Saturday, 3 November
| 8.30 ‚ 10am
07.a Mathematics and
the Fourth Dimension in Modern Art and Literature
Chair: Linda Dalrymple Henderson
Speaker: Kirsten Hoving, "Decoding the
Dimensions of Space and Time in Joseph Cornell's Late Collages"
Speaker: Linda Dalrymple Henderson, "The
Spatial 'Fourth Dimension' versus Space-Time at Mid-Century: Stuart Davis,
Marcel Duchamp, and Robert Smithson"
Speaker: Daniel Howe and Bill Seaman,
"Coding Creativity: Generative Models of Associative Thought in the
'Bisociation Engine' and 'Architecture of Association'"
Speaker: Amit Ray, "Universal Coding?: Wikipedia,
Free Software and Encyclopedic Babel"
Speaker: Philip Armstrong, "Feral animals as
code-breakers"
Speaker: Lawrence Mastroni, "Western Adaptation
and Domestication of Dogs: Signposts of Cultural Superiority in American
Periodical Literature, 1850-1900"
Speaker: April Kiser, "'Describing the true and
lively figure of every beast:' The Usefulness of images in Edward Topsell's Historie
of Foure-Footed Beastes"
09.b MECA
09.cRoundtable on
Allegra Goodman's Intuition
Chair: Carol Colatrella
Speaker: Celeste Goodridge
Speaker: Jay Labinger
Speaker: Mary Frank Fox
Speaker: Mita Choudhury
09.e Language and
Linguistics
Chair: Nanette Veilleux
Speaker: Nanette Veilleux, "Prosody in Spoken
Language: Full codebook not included"
Speaker: Nancy Barta-Smith, "Through the Lens of
Transcoding: Linda Hutcheon's A Theory of Adaptation and Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow"
Speaker: Raymond Miller, "Do as I Say, and Write
as You Speak: Alphabet as Nationalist Code in Early 19th-Century Austria"
09.f Values of Order
in Nature
Chair: Anthony Lioi
Speaker: Anthony Lioi, "Stupid Ontology Tricks,
or, The Code Of Unknowing"
Speaker: Mike Clody, "The Code of Nature: Secret
and Translation in Bacon"
10.g
Babel Reversed: Universal Languages, Visible Knowledge and the Book of Nature
in the Early Modern Anglosphere
Chair: Sarah Rivett
Speaker: Rhodri Lewis, "'To Deliver the Natures of Things': Aristotle, Artificial
Languages and the Image of the World in seventeenth-century England"
Speaker: Sarah Rivett, "Christian
Translations: Indian Grammar and the Quest for a Universal Language in the
British Atlantic World"
Speaker: James J. Bono, "Paradise
Regained: Technologies of the Literal, the Book of Nature, and the 17th Century
Poetics of Repairing the Fall and Babel"
010.h Code Play
Chair: Dene Grigar
Speaker: J. James Bono, "Cheat Codes: The Limits
of Close Reading in Digital Games Analysis"
Speaker: Dene Grigar, "Mindful Games: Play
Environments, Cognition, and Embodiment"
Speaker: Gregory Garvey, "The Half-Real Borders
of the Info Cloud"
Speaker: Hervé-Pierre Lambert, "Jeremy Narby,
'hypothesis' on a link between the genetic code and shamanic knowledge : a
contribution to the contemporary imaginary about the genetic code"
Speaker: Laura Balladur, "A Secret Code: Charles
Bonnet and Eighteenth Century Proto-Biology"
Speaker: David Bering-Porter, "The Recessive
Trait: Mendelian Secrets and the Dangerous Cipher of Life"
Session 12 | Sunday, 4 November |
10.30 ‚ 12 noon
12.a Arts Use
Biomatter
Chair: Adam Zaretsky
Speaker:
Seth Ellis, "The Alchemical
Body: Descriptions of the Body as the Body"
Speaker: Stephanie L. Taylor, "Max Ernst's
Painted 'Microbes': The Desert in a Grain of Sand"