Electricity and imagination

 

 

 

5 December 2012, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

 

 

Bâtiment Condorcet, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris

 

 

Room Mondrian 646A (6th floor)

 

organization:  Pierre Cassou-Nogues, Viktoria Tkaczyk, Koen Vermeir

guest organizer: Christian Carletti

 

09:00 - 9:30

 

                Koen Vermeir (SPHERE), Christian Carletti (SPHERE)

                Electrical machines and imagination

 

09:30 - 11:00 

 

Paolo Brenni (National Research Council - CNR, Florence)

                Fairies, Lightnings and Dynamos: Symbols and Allegories in the History of Electricity

 

Ulf Otto (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim)

‘Pandora oder Götter-Funken’. Electricity as Pantomime

 

11:00 – 11:30 break

 

11:30 – 1:00

 

Christine Blondel (Centre Koyré, Paris)

                Which Representations for Electrical "Healing Machines" in Late 19th Century France: Between Scientific Precision, Consecration and Nightmare.

 

                Baptiste Brun (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)

                Art brut and electricity : an anti-modern iconography ?

 

1:00 – 2:30 lunch

 

                 2:30 – 4:00

 

                Remko Scha (University of Amsterdam)

                Electric Power and the Human Body

 

                Sam Halliday (Queen Mary, University of London)

                Bipolarity and Sexuality   

 

                4:00 – 4:15 break

 

                4:15 – 5:00

 

                Laura Ludtke (University of Oxford)

                Electric Lights, New Mesmerism, and the Spectacle of Science in Richard Marsh's The Beetle’ (1897)

 

-- 
Koen Vermeir
Senior Research Fellow CNRS
Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR 7219), 5 rue Thomas Mann - Case 7093, 
75205 Paris Cedex 13, France