Research seminars
2021-2022
Research seminars will recommence in 2022.
2018-2019
Film screening
26 June 2019 (4pm-7pm):
Ex Machina (2014), written and directed by Alex Garland.
Hallward Library Screening Room
Public event
The group is currently running reading sessions – please see the relevant page.
2014-15:
26 November 2014:
‘Time and Revolution in Early Soviet Literature’
Rolf Hellebust (Russian)
2013-14:
6 November 2013:
‘The idea of the interface: from Norman Mailer to Norbert Wiener’
Chris Johnson (French)
11 December 2013:
‘The Cognitive Life of (Buildings and) Things’
Jonathan Hale (Architecture and Built Environment)
26 March 2014:
‘What’s on the SLAB? – Building a Simple Living Artificial Brain’
Noah Russell (Engineering)
18 June 2014:
‘Identical identities: clone stories’
John Marks (French)
2011-12:
22 February 2012:
‘Representing science in the French Nuclear Age’
Yves Gilonne (French)
21 March 2012:
‘Science in three dimensions: Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams’
Chris Johnson (French)
2010-11:
16 February 2011:
‘The Cold War in Biology’
John Marks (French)
24 November 2010:
‘Nanotechnology’s histories of the future’
Arthur Piper (Culture, Film and Media)
2009-10
19 May 2010:
‘Architecture, Technology and the Body: From the prehuman to the posthuman’
Jonathan Hale (Built Environment)
12 March 2010:
‘French Cybernetics’
Chris Johnson (French)
(French Department research seminar)
2008-09:
11 February 2009:
‘Science Fiction Movie Trailers of the 1950s’
Chris Johnson (French)
2007-08:
13 June 2008:
‘Technology and Tragedy in Martin Heidegger’
Neal Curtis (Centre for Critical Theory)
28 May 2008:
‘Manufacturing perception: Visualising nano/visions of nano’
Brigitte Nerlich (Institute for Science and Society)
14 May 2008:
‘Eccentric Information: Theatricality and Astonishment
in Postwar American Automata’
Bernard Geoghegan (Northwestern University)
30 April 2008:
‘Cybernetics and the Space Age’
Chris Johnson (French)
12 March 2008:
‘Experiencing the brain’
Arthur Piper (Centre for Critical Theory)
2006-07:
7 November 2006:
‘Hearing the Unhearable: Auditory Technologies’
Don Ihde (Stony Brook)
2005-06:
16 November 2005:
‘Imagining Technologies’
Don Ihde (Stony Brook)
2004-05:
1 June 2005:
‘I you we, Robot’
Chris Johnson (French)
16 March 2005:
‘François Jacob: DNA, bricolage and Meccano’
John Marks (Nottingham Trent)
1 December 2004:
‘Rethinking technology in architectural theory’
Jonathan Hale (Built Environment)
3 November 2004:
‘What’s political about the posthuman?’
Sujatha Raman (IGBIS)