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GASC 2015

GASC IX

Generative Anthropology Summer Conference

High Point University, June 5-6, 2015

Program

Friday, June 5, 2015

9:30-10:30: Greek Conference Center 202: Registration/Welcome Reception

Session 1: 11:00-12:30 (Conference Center 201):
  1. Peter Goldman, “Originary Figurality: The Magic of Mimesis”
  2. Edmond Wright, “A Poetic Place for the Ideal of Immortality: An Anthropoetic Reading of Wordsworth’s Ode”
12:30 – 1:45 – Lunch (Conference Center 202)
Plenary 1 and Discussion: 2:00 – 3:15 (Conference Center 201)

Eric Gans, On the Digital Humanities

Session 2: 3:30-4:15
  1. Andrew Bartlett, Discussion of “Expression, Animal Mind, and Representation” (via Skype)
4:15 – 4:30 Coffee Break
Session 3: 4:30 – 6:00
  1. Adam Katz, “The Digitized, Prefixed Being: Humanization as Rehumanaturization”
  2. Marina Ludwigs, “Digital Culture as Posthuman Thought in Dave Eggers’s The Circle”
Evening: Dinner on your own in High Point

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Session 4: 9:30 – 11:00 (Conference Center 201)
  1. René Harrison, “Hominization, Emotion, and Complex Embodiment: Cognitive Neuro-Psychology and the Originary Scene”
  2. Benjamin Matthews, “Virality, Ostensivity and Ai Weiwei’s ‘Leg-Gun’ Meme”
Plenary 2: 11:15 – 12:30 (Conference Center 201)

Eric Gans, On the Digital Humanities II

12:30 – 1:45 – Lunch (Conference Center 202)
Session 5: 2:00 – 3:30 (Conference Center 201)
  1. Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska, “Consecutio Modorum: Mediation Between Two Concepts of Culture, Analog and Digital”
  2. Ian Dennis, “Marking ‘the Before Unapprehended Relation of Things’: Some Thoughts on the Pedagogical Implications of Database Searches”
4:00-5:30 (Conference Center 201)

       GASC Board Meeting

6:30 – Conference Banquet (Matt and Ann Schneider’s home)