TALKS AND EXHIBITS
Julie
Julie Wosk, Curator, "Imaging Women in the Space Age. " The exhibit is on view at the New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York, December 2024-2025 and is available for travel. For more information, contact the curator, jwosk@sunymaritime.edu
Julie Wosk's many presentations include "Perfect Woman': Female Robots, Alluring Androids, and Electronic Eves"at Harvard University, talks on her books and research at Princeton University, Columbia Universy, the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian National Musuem of American History, and the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design. She will be speaking about her book at the Berkshire Atheneum on June 26 and at the annual meetings of the Society for the History of Technology and the International Committee for the History of Technology, Vina del Mar, Chile, July 2024. She will also be speaking about Gllded Age Automatons to Today's Talking Dolls at Ventfort Hall, Lenox, MA on August 8, 2024.
PICTURING FEMALE ROBOTS AND ANDROIDS
Museum exhibit of images at the New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York, April 22-October 22, 2017. http://nysci.org/event/picturing-female-robots-and-androids/
Images of female robots, mannequins and dolls in films, television, video games and more. Robots, androids, mannequins and dolls reflect our age-old efforts to create artificial beings that look amazingly lifelike. They also reveal to us our changing views of women. This exhibit, curated by Julie Wosk, is based on her book MY FAIR LADIES: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves.
JULIE WOSK'S INTERVIEW ON NEW YORK TELEVISION qptv.org/content/qptv-presents-around-queens-luchia-dragosh-picturing-female-robots-and-androids
Huffington Post story http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/museum-features-pictures-of-female-robots-and-androids_us_58fb4c02e4b086ce58981168
Ms. Magazine blog by Julie Wosk http://msmagazine.com/blog/2017/08/30/picturing-female-robots-androids/