Vital Matters, Part 4- Borders of the Animate

Friday, May 19

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

SESSION 1
Animating Things

Chair: Robert G. Frank, UCLA

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Jonathan Lamb Vanderbilt University
Representing Self Moving Matter

Minsoo Kang University of Missouri, St. Louis
The Machine-Man and the Man-Machine: The Automaton in Enlightenment Debates on the Animate and the Inanimate

Julie Park Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies
The Aesthetics of Lifelikeness in the 18th- Century Novel

1:00 P.M.

2:30 P.M.

SESSION 2
Envisioning the Invisible

Chair: Emily Hodgson Anderson, University of Southern California

Kevin Chua Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies
Girodet and the Eternal Sleep

Jayne Lewis UC, Irvine
The Spring of the Air and the Afterlife of Aether

4:30 P.M.

Saturday, May 20

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

SESSION 3
Aesthetics of Animation

Chair: Felicity Nussbaum, UCLA

Richard Barney University at Albany, SUNY
Sublime Animations: Anamorphism and Anne Finch's Verse

Helen Deutsch UCLA
Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation

Joseph Roach Yale University
Eighteenth-Century Cinema: Animating Mrs. Siddons

1:00 P.M.

2:30 P.M.

SESSION 4
Reason, People and Things

Chair: Malina Stefanovska, UCLA

John Bender Stanford University
Rational Choice in Love

Blakey Vermeule Stanford University
J.M. Coetzee’s Rational Animals