science and culture

  The Seventh International Conference of Philosophy Science, technology and=
 globalization Rafael Land=C3=ADvar University, Guatemala City August 13, 14=
, and 16, 2007 In honor to Antonio Gallo, S. J. Please send an abstract 2=
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st.edu Requirements for Proposals for the conference (English): The cen=
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osophy is the debate of the current developments of the science and the tech=
nology in a global world. The discussions will deal with the effects and man=
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Science and the Humanities
 
UNC-Asheville
www.unca.edu
 
Deadline for Submissions: Sept. 1, 2007
Conference Dates: Oct. 17-19, 2007
 
The University of North Carolina at Asheville will sponsor a conference on
"Science and the Humanities" October 17 through 19 in Asheville, North
Carolina. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Sept. 1, 2007. Papers
will be strictly limited to twenty minutes. The conference encourages
papers and proposals from professors, graduate students, and undergraduates,
including proposals of collaborative work between professors and students.
Please send proposals and/or abstracts by Sept. 1, 2007 to:
 

Call for Papers
  Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Event and Academic Conference
  July 6-8, 2007
  Kansas City, MO
   
  Submission deadline extended to May 15, 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.
   

 Call for Papers: *
Thinking Affect - Memory, Language, and Cognition.**
*A graduate student conference, sponsored by the Unit for Criticism &
Interpretive Theory
http://criticism.english.uiuc.edu/
*
**Abstracts Due: June 15, 2007
Conference Dates: September 28 =96 29, 2007
**See below for submission procedures.*

*Advisory Committee: *
*Lillian Hoddeson, Stephen Levinson, Andrew Pickering, Rick Powers, and **N=
eal
Cohen.*

Call for Papers
Women in the Sciences Area
2008 Film & History Conference
"Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond"
October 30-November 2, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
www.filmandhistory.org
First-Round Deadline: November 1, 2007

Area: "Count Me In!": The Inclusion of Women in the Sciences

Land, Landscape and Environment, 1500-1750
Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading
14 - 16 July, 2008

H. G. Wells, Science and Philosophy

The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference, Imperial College/Conway Hall,
London, 28-29 September 2007

Proposals for 20-minute papers, or for panels of 2-3 papers, are invited
for this year's H. G. Wells Society Annual conference. The conference
will be hosted by both Imperial College, London (on the 28 September)
and by Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London (on the 29 September). The
first day of the event will include a plenary lecture by the science
fiction writer, Stephen Baxter.

Special Issue of *Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net*
Science and the Senses (1789-1914)

Call for Papers

THE ATOMIC AGE Area

2008 Film & History Conference

"Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond"

October 30-November 2, 2008

Chicago, Illinois

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First-Round Deadline: November 1, 2007

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Call for Papers
MLA 2007 (Chicago, 12/27-12/30)

Proposed special session topic: Literary responses to ecological damage

MELUS: Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the US

Landscape, Spirit of Place, Nature

Although place has long played a part in ethnic literature, the emphasis on
globalization may have affected this concept. Papers addressing the
function of landscape, the spirit of place, or the role of Nature in ethnic
literature are welcome. By April 1, 2007, please send a 250-word proposal
with the requisite information as noted in the SAMLA Call for Paper
Guidelines to Joyce Smith, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, via email
at Joyce-Smith_at_utc.edu or via regular mail to English Department #2703,
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN
37403-2598.

PATHOLOGIES

Questions of embodiment in literature, arts and sciences

The Inaugural International Conference of the

Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science

August 20-21, 2007

Plenary Speakers:

Tim Armstrong, Kelly Hurley & Jonathan Sawday

CFP: New Maps of the Mind: Neuroscience, Microscopy and the Literary
Imagination
We are looking for one or two delegates to join us on a panel on
neuroscience and literary modernism at the MSA 9th Annual Conference
Geographies of Visual and Literary Culture in Long Beach, CA (1 - 4 November
2007).
Turn-of-the-century scientific inventions and discoveries created radically
new topographies of the human mind. Especially neuroscience, relying on
improved technology in the area of microscopy, suggested profoundly new ways
of looking at the nervous system, making its internal organisation and
geography visible to the human eye. Whilst the workings of the human mind

Writing Place, Placing Writing

Literature and literary studies have long acknowledged a significant relationship between the construction of narrative and the place in which narrative is constructed. Writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction find both inspiration and limitation, shaping forces, and restrictive forces, in local geography, culture, and environments natural and constructed. To address the complex interrelationship of literature and place, we invite proposals for papers (15-minute presentation limit), for a panel concerned with the relationship between writing/literature and landscape/place/environment.

Proposals are especially encouraged on the following topics.