Friday, 6 February 2015
Session 0 – Introductions
1:30 – 1:45 pm
Welcome
Erika Lorraine Milam and Joanna Radin
1:45 – 2:30pm
Designing Scholarship: Form & Function
Fred Gibbs
Session I: Temporality
chaired by Eileen Reeves
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Speculative Women and Girls
Michelle Murphy
Ahead of Time: Gerald Feinberg, James Blish, and the Governance of Futurity
Colin Milburn
5:00 – 6:30 pm
Seeing From Afar
Frédérique Aït-Touati
Evolutionary Futures: Apeman, Spaceman
Erika Lorraine Milam
Saturday, 7 February 2015
Session II: Enhancement
chaired by Keith Wailoo
9:00 – 10:30 am
Paranimate Science
Projit Mukharji
Many are Cold, Few are Frozen
Patrick McCray
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
SuperVision: Images of the Technological Sublime
Oliver Gaycken
The Future of Thinking: Computers & Minds in mid-Twentieth Century Imaginations
Stephanie Dick
Session III: Speculation
chaired by Janet Vertesi
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Black to the Future: Rethinking Race, Science, and Subjectivity
Ruha Benjamin
Between Science and Fiction: Fedor Il’in’s “The Valley of a New Life”
Nikolai Krementsov
4:00 – 5:30 pm
What to Say after Nuclear War: The Nuclear Novel and Language
Michael Gordin
Big Science Fiction: Michael Creighton and the Invention of the Technothriller
Joanna Radin
5:30 – 6:00 pm
Final Discussion
Readings
Together with the essays on the website, a set of primary source materials will serve as common ground for our discussion at the conference. If you would like to attend, you will need to read all of this material ahead of time. Please register for the conference with Ms. Jackie Wasneski (wasneski@princeton.edu) and she will supply you with the readings.
Getting Around
Link to map of Princeton, with main buildings, coffee and breakfast, and parking marked: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zQ9rtTT1fQoA.kPbZcHGFOpjc
For directions to Princeton and general travel information, please visit the website: http://www.princeton.edu/main/visiting/travel/.
Please be advised that Dickinson Hall is not handicapped accessible; if you require accommodation please let us know as soon as possible.
Additional Resources Princeton Visitor’s Page has links to interactive campus maps, taxi information, and a schedule for TigerTransit—our campus-wide shuttle system.
Consider downloading the iPrinceton app on your smartphone to assist you in navigating the campus during your stay! (for Apple or Andoid)
Funding
History of Science Program
The Center for Collaborative History
The David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project