Forthcoming Events:

Monstrous Bodies: A Conference for the Georgia Tech Community. URL forthcoming.

In April 2005 Georgia Tech’s School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, will host a two-day conference in which authors, scholars, and students examine the meaning of monstrous bodies in Western culture. This conference will include expert lectures as well as literary readings, panel presentations, and small-group discussions. Other events scheduled to occur in conjunction with the conference include a film festival and book exhibits drawn from the Bud Foote Science Fiction Collection.

Following up on the success of last year’s Frankenstein Festival, this conference will provide members of the Georgia Tech community with an opportunity to explore questions such as: What are “normal” versus “monstrous” bodies? How do specific scientific, social, and/or economic practices encourage the creation of such bodies? How do we represent monstrous bodies, and what do they mean to us—how do they signify our hopes and fears about living in the modern world?

Conference attendance is free, and all members of the Georgia Tech community are welcome to participate. If you would like to read an original piece of fiction, exhibit artwork, or present a short scholarly paper, please submit a one-page proposal by December 1, 2004 to Prof. Lisa Yaszek at lisa.yaszek@lcc.gatech.edu. All other inquiries may be directed to Prof. Yaszek at this email address as well.

Previous Events:

The Frankenstein Festival

From March 17-April 30, 2004, the Georgia Tech Library hosted Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, a traveling exhibit developed by the National Library of Medicine in collaboration with the American Library Association. Georgia Tech celebrated this exhibit with a series of related events including a Frankenstein film festival, a series of original DramaTech performances organized around themes drawn from Mary Shelley’s novel, a book exhibit drawn from the Bud Foote Science Fiction Collection, and a lecture series on “Mary Shelley’s Legacy to Art and Science.” Hosted by Georgia Tech’s School of Literature, Communication, and Culture in conjunction with the Georgia Tech Library and the Women, Science and Technology program, the Mary Shelley lecture series featured award-winning science fiction author Kathleen Ann Goonan, romantic literature expert Anne Mellor, and LCC’s own science fiction scholar and professor emeritus Irving “Bud” Foote.

 
   

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