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Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents "Animal Magnetism and After: A Symposium." This one-day event on Saturday April 3rd, 2004, from 1:30 pm-4:30 pm, will address the history of Mesmerism in l8th, l9th, and 20th-century literature, political and social philosophy, medicine, and dynamic psychotherapy.
Presentations were recorded and are available online:
http://slought.org/series/Mesmerism/
Introduction, by Lenore Malen
A public reading from "The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P," with comments to follow, by Brian O'Doherty
“Occult Subjects: From Mesmer to Psychoanalysis,” by Jodey Castricano
“On the Spiritual Telegraph in the Nineteenth Century,” by Jeremy Stolow
“The Victorian Fascination with Entranced Indians,” by Alisha Siebers
“Magnetic Phenomena, Therapeutic Practice, and Public 'Experiments' in 19th Century Europe,” by Daniela Barberis
In conjunction with the symposium, "The Magnetized Tree of Buzancy," a special display of material culture engaging Animal Magnetism, has also been organized at The Wagner Free Institute of Science (February 28-April 15; 1700 W. Montgomery Ave, Phila. 215.763.6529)
This symposium has been organized in conjunction with The New Society for Universal Harmony, an installation by Lenore Malen at Slought Foundation, February 28 through April 7, 2004, that reinvents in contemporary terms La société del’harmonie universelle, established in Paris in l783 by followers of Franz Anton Mesmer. Information online: http://slought.org/content/11177/
Lenore Malen will give a performance at 6:00pm at the opening: http://slought.org/content/11194/
Brian O'Doherty, a.k.a. Patrick Ireland, is an artist and writer. His work has been shown in numerous galleries and museums in the United States and Europe. Among his many books are Object and Idea (1967), Museum in Crisis (1972), American Masters: The Voice and the Myth (1973, 1988), Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (1986, 1999), and The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P (1992). In the latter, O'Doherty takes the reader from the hushed clinic of the controversial Doctor Franz Anton Mesmer to the glittering and scheming Habsburg court of Maria Teresa of Austria.
Jodey Castricano is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Cultural Studies who teaches in the English and Film Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of *Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing (McGill-Queen's 2001) as well as other articles on the Gothic, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. Currently, she is working on a book-length study entitled *Occult Subjects: Literature, Film, and Psychoanalysis.
Jeremy Stolow is an assistant professor of communication studies and sociology at McMaster University, Canada, and also a research fellow at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University. He was previously a post-doctoral fellow and affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge. His area of research and teaching is religion, media and social theory, and he has published articles in such journals as "Theory, Culture and Society", "Utopian Studies" and "Topia", as well as chapters in edited books. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript on Jewish Orthodox outreach literature, religious consumerism and the politics of cultural literacy. His second research project concerns the spread of Spiritism and Spiritualism across the Atlantic world in the 19th century, its relation to emergent technologies of mediated communication, and more broadly, the constitution of the 'electric imaginary' in religious, technoscientific and medical discourses of the 19th century.
Alisha Siebers received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and specializes in hypnotism in popular Victorian literature. An Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, she has taught on Surrealist literature, anti-modern protests, and the representation of intellectuals in theater. Her recent publication, "Marie Corelli's Magnetizing Power," explores how the best-selling novelist shaped her authorial persona with her own theory of revitalizing trance. She is currently researching authors' responses to the late-Victorian debates about connections between insanity and genius.
Daniela S. Barberis is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Chicago for her thesis The First AnnŽe Sociologique and Neo-Kantian Philosophy in France. She was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin in 2000-2002, where she developed the project "Biological Sociology on Trial: The Durkheimian Criticism of Biological Models for the Human Sciences." She has published on French physiological psychology, hypnotism, scientific anniversaries and the development of sociology in France."
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