Programme
9:30 - 10:00 registration and welcome 10:00 - 12:00 panel 1 (in person): Human Machines and Non-Human Actors 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 Assassinato Anita Barmettler (University of Limerick) The Perfect Female Automaton in Literature and Film Across Culture and Time Howard Ryland (Corpus Christi, University of Oxford) Sane or Insane? The Legal Defence of Automatism 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 tea/coffee break 12:15 - 1:30 keynote address (in person) Ben Roberts (University of Sussex), title tbc Chair: Kate Foster (King's College London) 1:30 - 2:30 sandwich lunch 2:30 - 4:00 panel 2 (online): Control and the Automatic Chair: Adina Stroia (Newcastle University) 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 tea/coffee break 4:30 - 6:00 panel 3 (in person): Animals, Robots, Interactions 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 wine reception 7:30 conference dinner (please email us for more details) |