The Society for the Humanities presents, "Skin Practice," the Annual Fellows' Workshop conceived as part of the 2016-17 focal theme, "Skin." Featuring plenary lecture by Mary Flanagan (Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College), "Othering Algorithms."

Starting with a story about code for a recent art work, artist, game designer, and media scholar Mary Flanagan discusses her research on biases in games and other systems. Flanagan exposes the troubling relationship among what we see, our computational algorithms, and the creation of the other. 

All events held at the A.D. White House.

Schedule:

10:00 a.m. Introduction.  Timothy Murray, Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities

10:15-11:45 a.m.   Tattoo: Art & Identity  

Pamela Gilbert, Society for the Humanities/University of Florida,

Tattoos in Ninteenth Century British Culture

Gemma Angel, Society for the Humanities/University College, London

Commemoration vs. Speculation: The Tattoo & Contemporary Art

Elyse Semerdjian, Society for the Humanities/Whitman College

Dicle’s Tattoos:  The Hidden Body Archives of Turkey’s Crypto-Armenians

Discussants: Carol Oddy and Cesar Enciso, tattoo artists, Medusa Tattoos (Ithaca, NY)

1:00-2:30 p.m.  The Medical and Theological Body

Seçil Yılmaz, Society for the Humanities/Near Eastern Studies

Love in the Time of Syphilis: Medicine & Sex in the Late Ottoman Empire

Stacey Langwick, Society for the Humanites/Anthropology

 (un)ethical substances: albinism, violence, and the nature of skin in Africa

Karmen MacKendrick, Society for the Humanities/Le Moyne College

A Really Big Resurrection

Discussant: Masha Raskolnikov (English, Cornell)                                 

2:45-4:00 p.m.  Practicing Embodiment

Alana Staiti, Society for the Humanties/Science and Technology Studies

A hands-on history of sizing standards in clothing

Emily Rials, Society for the Humanties/English

Exposing Spines

Discussant: Gloria Kim, Society for the Humanities

4:30 p.m. Plenary Lecture

Mary Flanagan, Senior Invited Scholar, Society for the Humanities; Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College

            Othering Algorithms

6:00  Public Reception