science and culture

Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
http://www.rhizomes.net/

Hi folks,

Please consider this CFP, and forward it to anyone interested.
Deadline is March 15th. Thank you.

Conference Panel Call for Papers:
Against Embodiment (or, Embodiment and its Discontents)
21st Annual Conference for the Society for Literature,
     Science and the Arts
November 1 – November 4, 2007
Portland, Maine, USA

Renaissance Discovery? (RSA 08)

Scholars of various Renaissance fields – including science, emblems, and
antiquarianism – have observed an instability or paradoxicality around the
operative concept of empirical discovery. Scholars have not, however,
evaluated or explained this strange observation. In some cases, discovery
seems irrelevant to the period's production of knowledge; in others,
relevant, but discouraged or abjured. Given that discovery seems basic to
modern notions of evidence, and of interpretation, the hermeneutic and/or
epistemological consequences of the Renaissance attitude may be
considerable.

Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge

CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue: Rhizomes 15: Deleuze and Guattari=92s Ecophilosophy

Disconnections and missed connections between the spheres of disability, HIV/AIDS and culture. How do the three inform each other? How can they be (and are they) prioritized and with what investments? Which (types of) individuals navigate the three spheres and with what results?

Potential topics of discussion include, but are not limited to:

Representation in literature, music and art

Reception and reception theory

Knowledge production

Activism and histories of activism

Ideologies of "cure"

Politics and body politics

Identity and identity construction

Intersectionality

BIOCULTURES >science >technology >culture >humanity

Graduate Student Conference
University of Illinois at Chicago
November 16-17, 2007

Keynote speakers:
Judith Halberstam
Lennard J. Davis

This is an open Call for Papers for the Seventh Annual International
Gatherings in Biosemiotics, to be held on June 6-9, 2007 at the
University of Groningen, Netherlands.

The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Seventh Annual Gatherings in
Biosemiotics welcomes paper proposals from any academic discipline
investigating the real-world use of sign processes among or within
living organisms (including humans!). More information regarding the
kind of papers that we are looking for and the kind of
interdisciplinary work that is going on in Biosemiotics can be found
here: www.biosemiotics.org

Call for Papers
  Submission deadline: March 31, 2007
   
  We invite abstracts for papers, roundtable discussions, and presentation/lectures on any topic related to engineering and its representation in the works of novelist and futurist Robert A. Heinlein.
   
  Various types of engineering, especially aerospace engineering, appear in nearly all of Heinlein's novels and short stories, often in detail. Heinlein was able to present engineering principles and theories in such a way that they were understandable for the average reader.
   
  Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
   
  --Aerospace engineering
   

     Interested individuals are encouraged to submit 500-word abstracts =
or completed papers to the Literature and Psychology session at the =
South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Conference to be held =
1-3 November 2007 in Memphis, Tennessee.
     The session is open topic; papers addressing any and all issues =
pertinent to the intersection between literature and psychology will be =
considered.
     If interested, please send a 500-word abstract or the completed =
paper to John G. Morris, Professor of English, Cameron University, 2800 =
W. Gore Blvd., Lawton, OK 73505. If you prefer you may send either the =

Proposed Special Session for MLA '07 (Chicago)
Deadline: 15 March 07

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
will sponsor a panel at the Rocky Mountain MLA conference in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007.

Proposals are welcome on topics dealing with ecocriticism,
literature/art, and the environment; those dealing with neglected or
underrepresented authors or topics amd those covering new approaches
to the critical examiniation of literature and the environment are
especially welcome.

Please sumbit 300-word paper abstracts (preferably as MS word
attachment) by March 1 to

Tina Gianquitto (tinagian_at_mines.edu)

If you do not have access to e-mail, please send your proposal to:

CFP: Literature and Science before 1800; Midwest MLA Annual Meeting (04/15/07; 11/8/07-11/11/07)

MELUS is now accepting proposals for the following two panels at MLA
(December 27-30, 2007, Chicago):

1. Multi-ethnic Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersections

Ecofeminism sees a relationship among nature, women, and people of color.
How have multi-ethnic texts contributed to the ecofeminist or eco-political
agenda? What theoretical and practical issues are involved?

2. Trans/nation: Race, Ethnicity, Citizenship and the State of American
Literature

How have current studies on globalization/transnationalism impacted
our conceptions of American ethnic literatures? How have globalization
and transnationalism redefined 21st-century multi-ethnic American
literary studies?

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