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Journée d'études - Electricity and imagination 5 December 2012, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Laboratoire SPHERE (University Paris Diderot 7 / CNRS)Bâtiment Condorcet, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 ParisRoom Mondrian 646A (6th floor)organization: Pierre Cassou-Nogues, Viktoria Tkaczyk, Koen Vermeirguest organizer: Christian Carletti09:00 - 9:30Koen Vermeir (SPHERE), Christian Carletti (SPHERE)Electrical machines and imagination 09:30 - 11:00Paolo Brenni (National Research Council - CNR, Florence)Fairies, Lightnings and Dynamos: Symbols and Allegories in the History of Electricity Ulf Otto (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim)‘Pandora oder Götter-Funken’. Electricity as Pantomime 11:00 – 11:30 break11:30 – 1:00Christine Blondel (Centre Koyré, Paris)Which Representations for Electrical "Healing Machines" in Late 19th Century France: Between Scientific Precision, Consecration and Nightmare. Baptiste Brun (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)Art brut and electricity : an anti-modern iconography ? 1:00 – 2:30 lunch2:30 – 4:00Remko Scha (University of Amsterdam)Electric Power and the Human Body Sam Halliday (Queen Mary, University of London)Bipolarity and Sexuality 4:00 – 4:15 break4:15 – 5:00Laura Ludtke (University of Oxford)Electric Lights, New Mesmerism, and the Spectacle of Science in Richard Marsh's The Beetle’ (1897)