ZOOMPOSIUM: Performance, Science & Technology (original) (raw)
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CPAS presents a Zoomposium on PERFORMANCE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
About the event
Popular entertainment has always been intertwined with the cutting edge of science and technology.
It is a versatile frame for interpreting our relationship with technological and scientific advancement.
This zoomposium will explore the way popular entertainment, including historical science shows, clown acts, magic lantern and robot performances, represent and interact with science and technology.
Speakers will discuss mad scientists in comics, the link between the Joker and virology, ‘Android Science’, the evolution of Hulk and many other exciting topics.
Confirmed speakers
- Prof Stefan Buchenberger (Kanagawa University, Japan)
- Thomas Conner (UC San Diego, USA)
- Dr Elisa deCourcy (ANU)
- A/Prof Carol Hayes (ANU)
- Dr Rebecca Hendershott (ANU)
- A/Prof Martyn Jolly (ANU)
- Dr Lindy Orthia (ANU) (cancelled)
- Dr Ruth Richards (RMIT University)
- Dr Yuji Sone (Macquarie University)
- Dr Brad Tucker (ANU)
This event will be organised by Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Melanie McMahon.
| INTRODUCTION – PERFORMANCE, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9.00-9.40am | Put on a happy face! Welcome and Introduction & Science Stereotypes in Mainstream Comic Fiction | Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens & Melanie McMahon |
| PART 1 - SCIENCE AND COMIC PERFORMANCE | ||
| 9.40-10.10am | Evil as Performance – Performing Evil: Three Early Clownish Superman Villains: Mr. Mxyzptlk, Toyman and Prankster | Prof Stefan Buchenberger |
| 10.10-10.30am | Break / Collective Online Coffee Break | |
| 10.30-11.00am | Reinvention, Transformation and the Darkside of Scientific Ethics in Tezuka Osamu’s Black Jack | A/Prof Carol Hayes |
| 11.00-11.30am | "More a sort of clown, actually": Intersections of Science, Ritualised Performance and Clownish Comedy in Doctor Who | Dr Lindy Orthia (cancelled) |
| 11.30-12.15pm | Break (offline) | |
| 12.15-13.15pm | LUNCH EVENT! Launch of the Book Circus, Science and Technology: Dramatising Innovation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) - PERFORMANCE - and Launch of the Pop Culture Hub at CPAS (more info soon) | |
| PART 2 – POPULAR PERFORMANCE AND TECHNOLOGY | ||
| 1.15-1.45pm | Pepper’s Ghost and the Augmented Reality of Modernity | MA Thomas Conner |
| 1.45-2.15pm | Mechanical Clowns, Limber Acrobatics and Pirouetting Dancers within the Apparatus of the Magic Lantern | A/Prof Martyn Jolly and Dr Elisa deCourcy |
| 2.15-2.45pm | The Circus and Technologies of Animation | Dr Ruth Richards |
| 2.45-3.15pm | Break / Collective Online Coffee Break | |
| 3.15-3.45pm | A Bit of Fun? Or Harmful Representation? Human Evolution and Savagery in Popular Culture | Dr Rebecca Hendershott |
| 3.45-4.15pm | Hiroshi Ishiguro’s Android Science: The Fabulation of "Upstream Engagement" and Entertainment | Dr Yuji Sone |
| 4.15-4.45pm | Aliens – Science Fiction and the Search for Them | Dr Brad Tucker |
| 4.45-5.00pm | Wrap up and Good-Bye |