From: Technotopias Organising Committee[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 11:17 AM
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Subject: 2nd Call for Papers
Dear Recipient,
Earlier in the year you were kind enough to forward our call for papers to
academic staff and post graduate students in your department. With the
deadline for submissions steadily approaching we would be grateful if you
could forward this second call for papers and link to our website for us.
Yours
Stephen Jones
Conference Coordinator
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CALL FOR PAPERS
TECHNOTOPIAS: Texts, Identities, and Technological Cultures
An Interdisciplinary Conference
The Department of English Studies
The University of Strathclyde
Glasgow
July 10-12 2002
GUEST SPEAKERS: Wendy Chun, Harry Collins, Judith Halberstam, Colin MacCabe
and Bryan S. Turner
The University of Strathclyde is a world leader in science and engineering
yet, like many similar institutions, it maintains a strong commitment to
the humanities. In societies that seem to place increasing emphasis on the
application of technology and scientific knowledge this kind of commitment
is sometimes seen as irrelevant. For humanities departments this situation
raises new questions of identity, within both university faculties and
cultural discourse itself. In the light of this situation the aims of
Technotopias are to:
Investigate the complex historical and contemporary interplay between the
humanities and technology.
Address the impact of technologies upon the formation of physical and
cultural identities.
Consider historical and contemporary representations of technology.
Reflect upon the place of the arts within modern academia.
To realise the interdisciplinary nature of this conference we invite papers
from all fields of literary and cultural criticism, as well as the
scientific and technological disciplines, at both post-doctoral and
post-graduate levels.
SUGGESTED TOPICS INCLUDE:
Literatures of technology: historical contexts
Frontiers of the imagination: Science and Fiction
(Post) modern texts / (post) industrial spaces
Technologos: technology and the word
The science of Angellica: gender and technology
Culture, technology, and the body
Technologies and the self
New media, old academe
Paradigms of utility in academia
Abstracts of 200 words for a 20 - 30 minute paper by 31 December 2001 by
E-mail or post to:
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Technotopias Organising Committee
Department of English Studies
University of Strathclyde
Livingstone Tower
26 Richmond Street
Glasgow
G1 1XH
Tel: 0141 548 3529 (Tues-Thurs 10am-4pm)
Fax: 0141 552 3493
Further information will shortly be available through the department's on
line Journal Ecloga:
http://www.strath.ac.uk/ecloga/technotopiascfp2.htm
Technotopias Organising Committee
Department of English Studies
University of Strathclyde
16 Richmond Street
Glasgow
G1 1XH
Tel: 0141 548 3529 (Tues-Thurs 10am-4pm)
Fax: 0141 552 3493
Further information will shortly be available through the department's on
line Journal Ecloga:
http://www.strath.ac.uk/ecloga
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