For access to the optional readings from the book and more information, please email ihr@ucsc.edu.
Colloquium: 5/21, 12pm-1:30pm, Humanities 1, Room 210
Graduate Seminar: 5/21, 4:30pm-6:00pm, Graduate Student Commons
All graduate students are welcome, but an RSVP is required by May 19
Despina Kakoudaki's work focuses on literature, film visual and cultural studies, and the history of technology. Her forthcoming book. Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People, traces our facination with mechanical and constructed people, such as robots, cyborgs, androids and automata.
Despina Kakoudaki is Associate Professor of Literature at American University.
Presented by the Center for Cultural Studies
Co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Association, the Departments of Literatue, the Departmentof Computer Science, the Film & Digital Media Department, and the Department of Anthropology