Perhaps of interest. Felicity Callard
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Subject: FYI: Renaissance Technologies
From: Jerome de Groot <[log in to unmask]>
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Renaissance Technologies
A one-day interdisciplinary conference at the University of Huddersfield in association
with the Northern Renaissance Seminar
Saturday, March 16, 2002, 10am-5.30pm
Confirmed speakers: Stephen Clucas, Ceri Sullivan, Jonathan Sawday, Scott Wilson
This conference will focus on the theme of Renaissance Technologies. Issues of
technological innovation and revolution will be approached from a variety of disciplinary
standpoints and theoretical positions. Fruitful avenues for investigation might be: information
and print technology; material consumption; the commodification of technology; interaction
between human and machine; representations of the meta-human; the economic influence
and repercussions of technology; the nature of the body; banking and financial transactions;
imperial and republic technologies; measurement and dominion; definitions of spatial relations;
labour and agriculture; medical technology and anatomical prints; emblematic representation.
Specific discussions could range from a discussion of the iron-man Talus in The Faerie
Queene to the impact of new arms technology on early modern warfare or the effect of
new time-keeping instruments on Restoration society. Theoretical considerations might
deploy the work of Michel Foucault, Friedrich Kittler, Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard. Papers
from Postgraduate students are welcomed.
Please send abstracts of 400 words (post or email) by November 15th 2001 to Jerome
de Groot, English Department, University of Huddersfield, St. Peter's Building,
St. Peter's Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1RA, United Kingdom,
Telephone: 01484 478424, Fax: 01484 478428, Email: [log in to unmask]
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