Automation & Automatism/s
Room tbc
Macadam Building room 2.2, Surrey Street
London WC2R 2NS
United Kingdom
This event is available both online and in-person
Sponsor(s):
- Society of Dix-Neuviémistes
- Society for French Studies
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Automation & Automatism/s
28 January 2023
conference programme
9:30 – 10:00 registration and welcome
10:00 – 12:00 panel 1: Human Machines and Non-Human Actors (in person)
chair: Molly Crozier (University of Liverpool)
· Emanuele Stefanori (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
When the Clock took the Floor: Technological and Mechanical Objects as Non-Human Characters in Augusto De Angelis’ Detective Novel Il Banchiere
· Anita Barmettler (University of Limerick)
The Perfect Female Automaton in Literature and Film Across Culture and Time
· Howard Ryland (University of Oxford)
Title tbc
· Thomas Crew (University of Cambridge)
‘The World is a Machine, Man an Automaton’: Technological Progress and Human Rationalisation in Friedrich Georg Jünger’s Perfection of Technology
12:00 – 12:15 break
12:15 – 1:30 keynote: Ben Roberts (University of Sussex) (in person)
Title tbc
chair: Kate Foster (King’s College London)
1:30 – 2:30 lunch
2:30 – 4:00 panel 2: Control and the Automatic (online)
chair: tbc
· Barbara Cohen Bastos (King’s College London)
Surrealist Automatism: Investigations Towards a New Form of Consciousness
· Elizabeth Beckman (University of Michigan at Ann Abor)
Examining Moral Responsibility for Empathic Failures: The Role of Automatic Processing
· Sylvie Durmelat (Georgetown University)
The Scalability of Kouskous with a K
4:00 – 4:30 break
4:30 – 6:00 panel 3: Animals, Robots, Interactions (in person)
chair: Alexandra Pugh (King’s College London)
· Naomi Madeleine Harland-Smith (Durham University)
Searching for Stiegler’s ‘new state of law in the face of automisation’: What is Wrong with Animal Rights?
· Jess Majekodunmi (independent researcher)
Robots that Suck
· Eleonora Lima (King’s College London & Trinity College Dublin)
Ai-Da and Dante: AI Automation of Poetry
6:00 - 7:30 drinks reception (details tbc)
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