the History of Science and Technology Society presents
Imagining Futures
Students in the History of Science and Technology program present a conference of their work. The conference will begin on Friday night with a keynote lecture presented by Amy Shira Teitel at 7 p.m. on Feburay 28 in the KTS Lecture Hall, followed by a series of student presentations on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m.
Friday, Feb. 28
7 p.m. | Keynote Lecture
Amy Shira Teitel– “When Women Fought For Space”
Location: KTS Lecture Hall
Saturday, Feb. 29
10 – 11 a.m. | Inventing Futures
- Lilian Barraclough – “ActivScore: An Active Index for Nova Scotia”
- Alexander T. Long – “Alien Superpowers: A critical evaluation of the technological levels implied for the extraterrestrial civilizations in the films Contact (1997) and Interstellar (2014)”
- Sammy Goldberg – “Down to Earth: An In-Depth Media Analysis of Old and New Spaceflight”
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 pm | Mind and Memory
- Megan Krempa – “Obscurity as the decay of knowledge history: the people involved in the creation of theory to fact”
- Chelsea McMillen – “The Failed Imitation Game: Machines’ Inability to Mimic the Human Capacity to Forget”
- Christina Torrealba – “N400 Activity During Conversation Using EEG Hyperscanning”
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | Regulating the Future
- Pilar G. de Boismenu – “Reproduction, Productivity, and Sex: An Examination of Cuban Culture Around Sexual Health and Pregnancy”
- Jacob Hermant – “Crafting Computers out of Clay: Alan Turing’s Imitation Game and Gershom Scholem’s Treatment of the Golem in Discussions of Legislating Autonomous Technology”
- Sean Liam Galway – “Plastic Trouble: Donna Haraway and Post-Human Art-Making”
2:45 – 3:45 p.m. | “Nature”
- Hope Moon – “Darwin’s Selective Science and the Evolution of his Ideology”
- Cédric Blais – “A Philosophical and Experimental Study of Lateral Gene Transfer in Eukaryotes”
- Arden Rogalsky – “A Dialogue Between Carl Linnaeus and Three Flowers”