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This conference at Duke may be of interest to ARLIS members within driving distance. I thought it added an interesting component (genomics) to the study of arts and popular culture. It is free and open to the public. John Genomics, the Arts & Popular Culture Conference November 4-6 240 Franklin Center (unless otherwise noted) Duke University Free and Open to the Public. For more information, see www.genomeculture.org or contact [log in to unmask] Conference Schedule: Thursday, November 4 7:30 p.m. Keynote Address 1 LIFE TRANSFORMATION - ART MUTATION Artist and Author, Eduardo Kac Professor and Chair, Art and Technology Department The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 107 White Lecture Hall, East Campus Eduardo Kac's work reveals the alternately poetic, political, personal, and philosophical approaches by which the artist examines contemporary life and speculates on our collective future. After an introduction contextualizing his pioneering telepresence work, in progress since the mid-1980s, Kac will give examples and further discuss his transgenic art. Kac has integrated many disciplines to present an imaginative view of art's relevance to the contemporary world, a view which has firm roots in the artist's background in philosophy and literature. The artist is internationally recognized for his unique artwork which focuses on the relationships among and between humans, animals, machines, and different life forms. The presentation will include a discussion of "GFP Bunny" (Alba, the green rabbit) and "Move 36", Kac's most recent work, currently on view at Gwangju Biennale, Korea, and Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil. Friday, November 5 10:00 - 10:30 Opening Remarks Karla FC Holloway William Rand Kenan Professor of English, Duke University 10:30 - 12:30 Panel 1: In Our Genes, Science Fiction Looks Within Chair: Priscilla Wald, Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies, Duke University David Kirby, Lecturer in Science Communication, University of Manchester The Devil in Our DNA: A Brief History of Eugenic Themes in Science Fiction Films Britt Rusert, Graduate Student in English, Duke University GATTACA and the Shedding of Identity Heather Schell, Assistant Professor, University Writing Program, George Washington University The Fur beneath the Skin: Genes, Wolves, and Contemporary Masculinity 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 4:00 Panel 2: Arts of Evolution Chair: Jay Clayton, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Departmental Chair, Vanderbilt University Lisa Lynch, Assistant Professor, English and Media Studies, The Catholic University of America 'Art is Not Terrorism:' Critical Art Ensemble and The Politics of Genetic Artwork Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Cornell University Radical Alterities: Interactive Art in the Age of Postevolutionary Strategies Alys Eve Weinbaum, Associate Professor of English, University of Washington Reproducing Race in an Age of Genomics 4:00 - 4:30 Break 4:30 Keynote Address 2 "The Double Helix in Hospital and Hollywood" Wayne Grody, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Divisions of Medical Genetics & Molecular Pathology, Depts. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics & Human Genetics Director, Diagnostic Molecular Pathology Laboratory UCLA School of Medicine Film and Television Consultant Saturday, November 6 10:00 - 12:00 Panel 3: Biotechnology and Being Chair: Ellen Wright Clayton, Rosalind E. Franklin Professor and Director, Center for Genetics and Health Policy, Professor of Pediatrics and Law, Vanderbilt University Rob Mitchell, Assistant Professor of English, Duke University Sacrifice and the Economics of Genomics Susan McHugh, Assistant Professor of English, University of New England Flora, not Fauna: GM Culture and Agriculture Hasan Shanawani, GELP Fellow, Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy, Dr of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Reporting of Race in Genomics Studies--It's not Black and White 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 3:30 Panel 4: Genomics and the Social Terrain Chair: Karla F.C. Holloway, William Rand Kenan Professor of English, Duke University Celeste Condit, Professor of Speech Communication, University of Georgia How Culture and Science Make Race 'Genetic' Stephanie Turner, Assistant Professor of English, University of Houston- Downtown `If everything is transformed then what is extinction?' Transformation and Transgress in Julia Leigh's The Hunter Erin Gentry, Graduate Student in English, Duke University `The Old are Feeding on the Young:' Stem Cells, Longevity and the Value of Human Life Lennard J. Davis, Professor of English, Disability Studies and Medical Education, University of Illinois Chicago Reinventing Race in the Genetic Test Tube This conference is funded by a grant from the NIH, co-authored by Jay Clayton and Ellen Wright Clayton of Vanderbilt University and Priscilla Wald and Karla Holloway of Duke University. -- John J. Taormina Director, Visual Resources Center Dept. of Art and Art History Duke University Box 90764 112 East Duke Building Durham NC 27708-0764 Ph: 919-684-2501 E-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.duke.edu/web/art/ Editor, Visual Resources Association Bulletin http://www.vraweb.org __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]