Events

1:30—1:45
James Phelan, Department of English, Ohio State University
Sherri Geldin, Director of the Wexner Center
Charles Helm, Director of Performing Arts, Wexner Center
Joseph E. Steinmetz, Executive Dean and Vice Provost, College of Arts and Science, Ohio State University

1:45—3:00 Moderator: James Phelan
Marie-Laure Ryan, Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Narrative/Science Entanglements: On the Thousand and One Lives of Schrödinger's Cat"

Sean Carroll, Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, "Taking Time Seriously"

Break

3:30—5:00 Moderator: Lesley Ferris, Department of Theatre, Ohio State University
Brian McHale, Department of English, Ohio State University, "What Is Science Fiction Good For?"

Brian Rotman, "Toast: A Short Play"
Performed by Chris Matsos and Matt Yde, PhD students, Department of Theater, Ohio State University

Dinner on your own

8 PM Wexner Center Performance Space
SITI Performance, Who Do You Think You Are

9:00—10:30 Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
Roundtable Discussion of Who Do You Think You Are

Welcome: Charles Helm; Moderator: James Phelan
Lesley Ferris, Department of Theatre, Ohio State University; Frederick Aldama, Department of English, Ohio State University; John Oberdick, Department of Neuroscience & Center for Molecular Neurobiology; Lyn Jakeman, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Ohio State University; Anne Bogart, Artistic Director, SITI Company

11:00—12:15 Moderator: John Hellmann, Department of English, Ohio State University
William Storm, Department of Dramatic Art, New Mexico State University, "On the Science of Dramatic Character"

David Herman, Department of English, Ohio State University, "Beyond the Two Cultures: Persons, Minds, and Stories"

12:15—1:15 Lunch in Ballroom A, Blackwell Hotel

1:15—2:30 Moderator: Robyn Warhol-Down, Department of English, Ohio State University
Peter Rabinowitz, "Let's Not Pretend: Reading Science in Fiction"

Kay Young, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, "The Aesthetics of Elegance"

2:45—4:00 Moderator: Stephen Kern, Department of History, Ohio State University
David Weinberg, Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, "From the Big Bang to Island Universe"

William W. DeMastes, Department of English, Louisiana State University, "Portrait of an Artist as a Proto-Chaotician: Tom Stoppard's Theatre"

4:15 Blackwell Inn Banquet Rooms B and C
Reading by Rebecca Goldstein
Reception to follow

Dinner on your own

9:30—11:30 Moderator: Sean O’Sullivan, Department of English, Ohio State University
H. Porter Abbott, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Is there a Cognitive Base for Text-Type Distinctions?"

Lisa Zunshine, Department of English, University of Kentucky, "The Culture of Greedy Mind-Readers"

Mike Van den Heuvel, Department of Drama and Integrated Liberal Studies, University of Wisconsin Madison, "'To Infinity, and Beyond!' Can Theatre Play with Science?"

11:30—1:00 Lunch (outside Pfhal 202)

1:00—2:15 Moderator: Jon Erickson, Department of English, Ohio State University
Charles Anderson, Division of Medical Humanities, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Arkansas Little Rock, "Like a Good Neighbor: The Narrative Construction of Professional Identity Among Medical Students"

Debra Journet, Department of English, University of Louisville, "'The Goal of the Fox': Narratives of Purpose and Design in George C. Williams' Adaptation and Natural Selection"

2:45—4:00 Moderator: David Brewer, Department of English, Ohio State University
Anthony Zee, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, "On writing and theoretical physics"

Alan Brody, Department of Theater, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Operation Epsilon: History, Science, and Theater"