2019 College Summer Institute Closing Symposium
2019 College Summer Institute Closing Symposium
2019 College Summer Institute in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Symposium: “Thinking Beyond the Human: On Animals, A.I. and Others”
Thursday, September 26, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Neubauer Collegium, 1st Floor Presentation Room
Complete Symposium Proceedings [full text] available here.
Symposium Program
9:00 – 9:20 am: Morning refreshments, Neubauer Lobby
9:20 – 9:30 am: Welcome and congratulatory remarks, Prof. Christopher Wild, Collegiate Master of the Humanities
9:30 – 10:15 am, Session I: In the Sky, Under the Sea, Through the Forest: Animals and Media
"Animating Shapeshifters: The Shadow of the Wolf in Myth and Media"
- Hannah Chen, 3rd-year, English
“A Simple Sponge”
- Emily Lynch, 4th-year, English Language and Literature, Political Science
“The Hawk Knight Rises: Queering Chivalry in the Twelfth Century Lai ‘Yonec”
- Lauren Pankin, 4th-year, Global Studies, French Literature
10:15 – 10:30 am: Break
10:30 – 11:15 am, Session II: Anything You Can Do, AI Can Do Better: Living with Machines
“From Mary to AARON: Can Computers Be Artists?”
- Nicholas Ornstein, 3rd-year, Neuroscience
“Even Better than the Real Thing: Turing and the Sexbots”
- Abigail Henkin, 3rd-year, Theater, Cinema Studies
“Looking at Machines Looking at Humans Looking at Animals”
- Calvin Wang, 4th-year, English
11:15 – 11:30 am: Break
11:30 am – 12:15 pm, Session III: Minding Your Matters: Intersections of Cognition and Embodiment
“What Can an Anorexic Body Do?”
- Rebeka Pushkar, 4th-year, Russian & Eastern European Studies, Gender & Sexuality
“Silicon Gorgons: Calculational Antecedents to the Smart City’s Visual Episteme”
- Sam Clark, 3rd-year, Environmental and Urban Studies
“A Cartesian Charybdis: Vortex Theory and the Circulation of Knowledge”
- Annabella Archacki, 4th-year, History, Philosophy: HIPPS
12:15 – 1:15 pm: Lunch Break
1:15 – 2:00 pm, Session IV: How to Do Things With Animals: Ethics and Interpretation
“Frankenstein's Dog: Ethical Considerations for Creating Animals”
- Ryan Murphy, 3rd-year, Philosophy
“Visibility, Invisibility and Distortion: An Examination of Current Discourses Regarding Animals”
- Sarah Hough, 4th-year, Fundamentals
“Thinking Theories: A Literal Reading of On the Origin of Species and its Ramifications”
- Max Fennell-Chametzky, 4th-year, Linguistics, History
2:00 – 2:15 pm: Break
2:15 – 3:00 pm, Session V: Demons and Divinity: Thinking Through Theology
“God’s Logic and Ours: On the Nature of the Laws of Logic”
- Natalie Leonard, 4th-year, Philosophy
“Brahman’s Lila as ‘The Exaltation of the Possible’”
- Dominic DiCarlo, 4th-year, Psychology
“Thinking with Demons in Earliest Christianity”
- Samuel Mellins, 4th-year, History
3:00 – 3:30 pm, Closing Remarks: 2019 CSI Research Mentors - Prof. Jason Bridges, Prof. Heather Keenleyside, Prof. Chris Kennedy
3:30 – 5:00 pm: Closing Reception, Neubauer Lobby
