My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves

With Julie Wosk, Professor of art history, English and studio painting at SUNY Maritime College.

Taking us on a fascinating tour across a wide variety of media, including sci-fi films, television shows, and advertising, Julie Wosk's illustrated lecture on her most recent book, My Fair Ladies, introduces us to a bevy of lifelike, man-made women. Through her study of everything from automatons to lifelike artificial intelligence machines, Julie Wosk considers how this figure of the “perfect woman” has come to embody not only fantasies, but also fears about gender and technology.