SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY

McGill University, Montral, Canada 9-10 June 2006
http://www.Technology-Conference.com

The symposium will take a broad and cross-disciplinary approach to
technology in society. Participants will include researchers, teachers and
practitioners whose interests are either technical or humanistic, or whose
work crosses over between the applied technological and social sciences.

A special theme of this symposium will be the complex relations between
Technology and Citizenship. Technology is deeply implicated in the
organisation and distribution of social, political and economic power.
Technological artefacts, systems and practices arise from particular
historical situations, and they condition subsequent social, political and
economic identities, practices and relationships. In short, technology,
industrial technology, transportation technology, information and
communication technology, learning technology, bio and genetic technology,
nanotechnology, etc.-is a matter in which citizenship is at stake. This
symposium is dedicated to exploring the various ways in which technology and
citizenship bear upon each other historically, and in the present context.

We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the symposium call
for papers. The symposium will also include numerous paper, workshop and
colloquium presentations. Papers submitted by participants will be
peer-refereed and published, if accepted by the referees, in print and
electronic formats in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and
Society. If you are unable to attend the symposium in person, virtual
registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for
refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic journal,
as well as access to the electronic version of the journal (including all
historical material). The deadline for the first round of the call for
papers is 15 JANUARY 2006. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of
submission.

Full details of the symposium, including an online call for papers form, are
to be found at the symposium website - http://www.Technology-Conference.com.

Yours Sincerely,

Darin Barney, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship
Chair, Dept. of Art History and Communication Studies
McGill University
Montral, QC, Canada