[Discussion] [Fwd: UPDATE: Technology and Culture (UK) (6/18/02; 7/10/02-7/12/02)]

[Gonul Pultar]

Technotopias Organising Committee wrote:
> 
> TECHNOTOPIAS: Texts, Identities, and Technological Cultures
> 
> An Interdisciplinary Conference
> The Department of English Studies
> The University of Strathclyde
> Glasgow
> 
> July 10-12 2002
> 
> Guest Speakers:
> 
> Wendy Chun (Brown): "Sexuality in the Age of Fibre Optics"
> Harry Collins (Cardiff): TBC
> Judith Halberstam (UCSD): "Transmodernism: Representations of the =
> Transgender Body in Contemporary Art."
> Colin MacCabe (Exeter and Pittsburgh): "Travelling in Time with Chris =
> Marker"
> 
> Due to withdrawals there are now a number of openings for papers. Full =
> details of the conference are available at =
> http://www.strath.ac.uk/conferences/technotopias . Please submit =
> abstracts by 18 June 2002 to technotopias@strath.ac.uk
> 
> Technotopias aims to:
> 
>   a.. Investigate the complex historical and contemporary interplay =
> between the humanities and technology.=20
> 
>   b.. Address the impact of technologies upon the formation of physical =
> and cultural identities.=20
> 
>   c.. Consider historical and contemporary representations of =
> technology.=20
> 
>   d.. Reflect upon the place of the arts within modern academia.=20
> 
> To realise the interdisciplinary nature of this conference, we invite =
> papers from all fields of literary and cultural criticism, as well the =
> scientific and technological disciplines, at both post-doctoral and =
> post-graduate levels.
> 
> Stephen Jones
> pp Technotopias Organising Committee
> 
> Department of English Studies
> University of Strathclyde
> 26 Richmond Street
> Glasgow=20
> G1 1XH
> 
> Tel: 0141 548 3529
> Fax: 0141 5523493
> 
> http://www.strath.ac.uk/conferences/technotopias
> 
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