Technotopias. Texts, Identities, and Technological Cultures - Call for Papers

[anna balint]

Technotopias: Texts, Identities, and Technological Cultures
10/July/02 10 to 12 July 2002,
An Interdisciplinary Conference organized by the Department 
of English Studies, University of Strathclyde

Call for Papers 31 December 2001

GUEST SPEAKERS: Wendy Chun, Harry Collins, Judith
Halberstam, Colin MacCabe, Bryan 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
Technotopias aims to investigate the complex historical
and contemporary interplay between the humanities and
technology. Firstly, Technotopias aims to reflect upon the
place of the arts within modern academia; secondly, to
investigate the complex historical and contemporary
interplay between the humanities and technology; and
finally, to address the impact of these relationships upon
the formation of physical and cultural identities.
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 to:
Technotopias Organising Committee
Department of English Studies
University of Strathclyde
Livingstone Tower
26 Richmond Street
Glasgow
G1 1XH UK

E-mail enquiries: technotopias at strath.ac.uk
Submission deadline: 31 December 2001
http://www.strath.ac.uk/ecloga/technotopiascfp2.ht
technotopias at strath.ac.uk