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-> CFP for SLS2001, Buffalo, plus more...
     by "Carol Colatrella" 

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Date: 29 Jan 2001 05:39:50 -0800
From: "Carol Colatrella" 
Subject: CFP for SLS2001, Buffalo, plus more...

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE CURRENT SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE &
SCIENCE
NEWSLETTER:  DECODINGS, vol.10, no.1, winter 2000

CALL FOR PAPERS--SLS2001, BUFFALO, NY
October 11-14, 2001

Technologies-Bodies-Narratives
The Accountability of Scientific and Medical
Practices

SLS 2001 will focus upon the production of
accounts, histories, narratives, images, diagrams,
tabulations (vote counts?), their circulation and
interpretation in a world of discourse networks,
software agents, and hybrid actants; laboratories,
pharmacies, and clinics; soft bodies and hard data.
And, equally, the accountability of cultural subjects
as ethical agents negotiating discourses of gender
and ethnicity, money and class, and the authority of
technological, medical, and biological explanation.
Proposals addressing these issues, and others as
well, are welcome.

Plenary Speaker: Elizabeth Grosz

The Hyatt Regency Buffalo Hotel
Special Conference Room Rates:
$109 Single or Double; $119 Triples or Quads

Local Arrangements Chair, Jim Bono; Program
Chair: Jim Swan

Send panel (or paper) proposals to Jim Swan
(e-mail submissions preferred)

HYPERLINK mail to:jswan@acsu.buffalo.edu

Or, via US mail:
Department of English
306 Clemens Hall
SUNY at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260

Deadline: March 15, 2001

For more information check out the conference
website:

http://www.specialevents.buffalo.edu/SLS-2001

note all conference participants must become 2001 SLS members

SLS2002: Advance Planning Notice
The 2002 SLS meeting will be held in Pasadena,
CA, October 10-13. A Call for Papers, with more
details about the meeting, will be issued
sometime next year. For now, please save the
dates, and start thinking about organizing a session
or contributing a paper. Any suggestions about
themes, plenary speakers, or anything else should
be addressed to Jay Labinger, jal@its.caltech.edu

Travel Awards
SLS provides a limited number of travel awards for
underfunded individuals attending the annual
conference. Members of SLS who participate in the
annual conference may apply for travel subsidies.
An applicant should email name, title of SLS
presentation, any information about funding for the
conference, and an indication of how long one has
been a member to Carol Colatrella at
carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu by September 1.
SLS officers will review the applications and
approve funds for one to three individuals. Each
person awarded funds will be presented with a
$200 check at the conference.

The Bruns Essay Prize
The Bruns Graduate Essay Prize, in honor of
Edward F. Bruns, is awarded annually to the best
essay written by a graduate student member of the
Society for Literature and Science. Graduate
students wishing to have their essays considered
for the $250 prize should submit them by
September 1 to N. Katherine Hayles, Department of
English, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
90095-1530.

The Schachterle Essay Prize
Lance Schachterle, SLS founding president, has
established an annual prize of $250 in honor of his
parents to recognize the best new essay on
literature and science written in English by a
nontenured scholar. Authors wishing to submit
essays (published or accepted for publication)
should send them prior to September 1 to the SLS
Executive Director, Carol Colatrella, LCC, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0165;
please label envelope "Schachterle Submission."
NOTE: Essay awards are presented during the
Business Meeting of the annual conference. One
may submit only one entry to one of the two essay
prize competitions.

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