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digest 1996-11-07 #001



11:22 PM 11/6/96 -0800
From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

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Date: 6 Nov 1996 15:04:22 -0800
From: Paul E Brodwin 
Subject: Re:Call for Papers: Biotechnolgy, Culture.... (fwd)
To:    List-serve members of Society for Literature and Science
From:  Center for 20th Century Studies, UW-Milwaukee
In the spring of 1997, the Center for 20th Century Studies will
sponsor an international conference entitled "Biotechnology,
Culture, and 
the Body." This conference will bring together established and
younger
scholars to debate the cultural implications of new reproductive
technologies and end-of-life technologies (organ transplantation and
brain death).
Other topics of the conference include the current globalization of
new medical technologies as well as critical perspectives (from
feminism
and post-modernism, for example) on the bioethical questions raised by
the technological reshaping of birth and death.
Although many of the speakers have already been invited and
confirmed, we have issued a call for papers aimed broadly at the
Science
and Technology Studies community (whatever your other disciplinary
ties).  Please consider submitting an abstract! You can find the
conference overview and the official call for papers on the web:
http://www.uwm.edu/~brodwin/
The Center for 20th Century Studies is a interdisciplinary
graduate research center in the humanities at the Univ of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The center has for many years fostered innovative
research in technology studies, femininsm, and critical theory.
Paul Brodwin
Fellow, Center for 20th Century Studies
Asst. Professor, Department of Anthropology
UW-Milwaukee
PO Box 413
Milwaukee, WI  53201