36th ANNUAL HUMANITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE 6-8 November 2014

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Call for Papers (Deadline: August 1, 2014)
36th ANNUAL HUMANITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES
ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY, MIAMI GARDENS, FL
TECHONOLGY AND POLITICS
06 - 08 NOVEMBER 2014

We are happy to announce the call for papers for the 36th annual Humanities and Technology
Association Conference. The main track for this year's conference will be Technology and
Politics. Papers are particularly welcome that address the democratization of science and
technology; political ecology and digital activism; hyperobjectivities and technological
mediations; biopolitics, including macro- and micro-biopolitics; technology of subjectivities,
including the techno-politics of sexuality; surveillance technologies; digital policing and
technologies of warfare (cyber, drone, etc.); gene technology and human engineering;
GMOs, food security, and food sovereignty; the politics and polities of transhumanism and
posthumanism; postmodern techno-science.
To allow for as broad of a range of scholars as possible, however, papers and panel
suggestions that examine other issues in science and technology will also be arranged
according to the following tracks:

TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL LIFE: topics will deal with questions such as: does technology
enable new/destroy old forms of social life; advance/hinder gender equality; raise/diminish
standards of living and economic well-being; suggest/force human adaptations to
technological environments?

REPRESENTATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: topics will treat the manifold interactions of art and
technology; aesthetic and artistic accounts of and reactions to the destruction of
old/creation of new technologies

TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION: topics will focus on the broader interface between
technology and pedagogy; technology, education, and the classroom

Please submit an abstract (approximately 500 words) by 1 August 2014 to Darrell Arnold
(darnold@stu.edu) and state the track for which you are submitting your paper. Include basic
biographical information such as your affiliated institution and your position at this
institution. Also indicate whether you will need AV equipment or special accommodations.
(Graduate students are welcome.)

The Humanities and Technology Association is an interdisciplinary scholarly society that
explores the impact of technology on human life from a broad range of perspectives. We
welcome papers that investigate the cultural interaction of the humanities, science,
engineering, and technology.

From this year's conference, we plan to include select contributions for a conference book
dealing with the main track of the conference. In addition, the Humanities and Technology
Review regularly publishes papers from conference participants on topics of each of the
tracks of this conference.

If you have questions, please contact:

Darrell Arnold, Ph.D.
Department of History, Philosophy, and Global Studies
St. Thomas University
16401 NW 37th Ave.
Miami Gardens, FL 33054
Email: darnold@stu.edu
Tel. 786-501-0840

Sean Irwin, Ph.D.
Department of Theology and Philosophy
Barry University
11300 NE 2nd Ave
Miami Shores, FL 33161
Email: serwin@barry.edu

cfp categories:

American studies
cultural_studies_and_history
philosophy and liberal studies
media studies
sociology, political science, law
interdisciplinary/liberal studies
gender_studies_and_sexuality
humanities_computing_and_the_internet
popular_culture
rhetoric_and_composition
science_and_culture