BIOCULTURES >science >technology >culture >humanity
Graduate Student Conference
University of Illinois at Chicago
November 16-17, 2007
Keynote speakers:
Judith Halberstam, University of Southern California
Lennard J. Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago
In the 1950s, C.P. Snow saw a fundamental split between the “two cultures”
of science and the humanities. But in recent years this split has faded,
with theorists like Michel Foucault and Donna Haraway as well as writers
like Samuel Delaney and Octavia Butler examining what "the human" is in a
world where recent biological and technological developments have
profoundly shaken our assumptions about identity and power. At the same
time, interdisciplinary work in fields like bioethics, gender studies,
disability studies and critical race theory has begun to bridge this
divide, offering up new ways of theorizing the body and its relationship
to medical, cultural, and political knowledge. Putting projects like
these in dialogue with one other, this conference seeks to create an
interdisciplinary discourse that participates in the emergence of
biocultures - the intellectual space where the humanities and the sciences
converge.
We invite presentations on biocultural issues from scholars and
professionals from all disciplines. Papers may address, but are in no way
limited to, the following:
> posthumanism
> cosmetic surgery/body modification
> cognitive mapping
> prosthesis
> eugenics/phrenology/scientific racism
> psychiatric illnesses (post-traumatic stress, OCD, etc.)
> the science of sexual deviance (sexology, the “gay gene,” etc.)
> medical technologies
> anthropology vs. genetics
> birth control and reproductive rights
> the human/animal boundary
> psychiatry & brain science
> transgenderism, transexuality & intersexuality
> literary & filmic representations of science and medicine
> architecture / the built environment
> biopower/biopolitics
> postmodern warfare
> nanotechnology
> cybercultures
> eco-feminism
> disability studies
> bioethics
For more information and updates, visit our conference website at:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/biocultures/
This conference is part of Project Biocultures, an ongoing effort
dedicated to exploring new ways of thinking about the intersections
between the human and the technological. More information about Project
Biocultures can be found at: http://www.biocultures.org/index2.php
Please send abstracts of 250-350 words to [log in to unmask] by
July 1, 2007
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Michael Gill, MS
PhD Candidate in Disability Studies
Teaching Assistant
Department of Gender and Women's Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
Moderator of the DS-HUM Listserv
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Michael Gill, MS
PhD Candidate in Disability Studies
Teaching Assistant
Department of Gender and Women's Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
Moderator of the DS-HUM Listserv
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Michael Gill, MS
PhD Candidate in Disability Studies
Teaching Assistant
Department of Gender and Women's Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
Moderator of the DS-HUM Listserv
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