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-> FWD: CONF: the Relationship between the Humanities and Science
by "Wayne Miller" 
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Date: 26 Mar 1998 09:24:26 -0800
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: FWD: CONF: the Relationship between the Humanities and Science
Date:    Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:21:36 -0800
Sender: "H-NEXA: the Science-Humanities Convergence Forum"

From:    "Michael Gregory, NEXA/H-NEXA" 
Subject: CONF: the Relationship between the Humanities and Science
(Phil-Chem)
THE OMETECA INSTITUTE,
THE ARGENTINIAN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY,
THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES (RIO CUARTO UNIVERSITY),
AND
CAFH FOUNDATION
present
Working conference V on the Relationship between the Humanities and
Science
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in Buenos Aires, Argentina
June 28 - July 3, 1998
A Working Conference leads to a more effective dissemination and
integration of knowledge since everyone actively contributes to the
creative
process. The Working Conference in Buenos Aires is the fifth Working
Conference designed to create a dialogue between humanist and scientist
from
around the world. Previous working conferences took place in
Santa Fe, New Mexico,USA;Puebla, Mexico; San Ramon, Costa Rica and
New Brunswik, New Jersey, USA.
There will be sessions on other topics as well, such as:
a) Theoretical aspects of the relations between science and humanities.
b) Aesthetics in the relationship between science and humanities
c) Science as literature and literature as science.
d) Gender in the relationship between science and humanities.
e) Ecocentrism. The new paradigm?
f) Relations of the humanities and science in transcultural processes.
g) Approaches to teaching the relationship between science and
humanities.
h) Approaches to teaching the relationship between science and
humanities
from a transcultural viewpoint.
i) Science, aboriginal cultures and the role of "story".
j) Relationship between art and science.
k) Sciencepoetry and scienceliterature readings.
The most successful papers at Ometeca Working Sessions bring together
aspects of the sciences and the humanities in such a way that they take
us
beyond particular insights gained in each discipline. Working Sessions
papers
that juxtapose and show parallels between aspects of the sciences and
the
humanities should do so in order to iluminate larger theoretical
questions or
suggest theory that lead us toward a new praxis. Historical surveys are
not
useful for their own sake, but should hace relevance to a particular
argument
or larger interdisciplinary interest. Authors are encouraged to take
chances
and to explore new posibilities without sacrificing the rigor and
standars of
their own disciplines.
Papers may be in English, Portuguese or Spanish, should be no longer
than 17  pages, single spaced, including bibliography. Only completed
papers
will be considered for inclusion in the Working Session. Papers
proposals
will not be considered. Send three (3) copies of your paper , no later
than
January 31 1998 to Dr. Eduardo A. Castro at the adress below.
In order to participate in the Working Session, you do not need to
present a paper, but the number of participants will be limited because
papers
are not read before an audience. Instead, they are distributed to
participants
before the conference so that they may be studied and, at the
conference, they
are discussed with the autor and the audience.
Any questions should be reffered to:
Dr. Eduardo A. Castro, Working Conference V, CEQUINOR, C.C. 962 (1900)
La Plata, Argentina
E-mail: castro@nahuel.biol.unlp.edu.ar. Telefax: 54-21-214037/259485
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