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-> SLS 2001: New Deadline and Updated Call
     by James Bono 
-> SLS 2001: New Deadline and Updated Call (#2)
     by James Bono 

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Date: 23 Feb 2001 11:44:49 -0800
From: James Bono 
Subject: SLS 2001: New Deadline and Updated Call

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                        Technologies-Bodies-Narratives
                The Accountability of Scientific and Medical Practices
                        Call for Papers-SLS 2001
        Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science,
Buffalo, NY

Buffalo?

Yes, Buffalo! The "City of No Illusions" or, according to USA Today, the
"City with a Big Heart"! If our warmth and accessibility doesn't melt
the permafrost, perhaps our celebrated modernist architecture--from
Louis Stack Sullivan's magnificent early skyscraper, The Prudential
Building, to Richardson's Buffalo Psychiatric Center, to Frank Lloyd
Wright's Darwin Martin House (and four others!)-- will do the trick. Or
how about the world-class Albright-Knox Art Gallery? Or this year's
centenary celebration of the 1901 Pan-Am World Exposition? And a
citywide grid created by no other than Frederick Law Olmsted culminating
in magnificent Delaware Park.

Still not moved? If you're a technology buff, before Silicon Valley,
Buffalo was "The City of Light": the first electrified city in America
and the showplace for the wonders of the new 20th Century as captured by
the amazing Tower of Light--the centerpiece of the new century's
inaugural Pan-Am Exposition in 1901--caught on film by no other than
Thomas Alva Edison himself.

From the "City of Lights' to the would-be "City of Bytes," Buffalo has
architecture, technology, artifacts, and a rich history of
representations of nature, race, gender, and class (from the Pan-Am to
internationally acclaimed Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center) to commend
itself to the most cosmopolitan academic. Plus bars that stay open to 4
am, more theater than most other cities in America could even imagine,
and music that can't be beat for quantity, quality, or variety--what are
you waiting for?

                                Conference Theme

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.

We especially encourage individual and panel proposals in a variety of
fields--from medical humanities to disability studies to artificial
life, cyberspace, virtuality, the posthuman, etc.--whether or not they
"fit" the explicit conference theme.

                                        Plenary Speaker
                                        Elizabeth Grosz

Information and Contacts:

Society for Literature and Science
2001 Conference
Buffalo, New York

Local Arrangements Chair: Jim Bono

Program Chair: Jim Swan

Dates:  October 11-14, 2001

Conference Hotel: The Hyatt Regency Buffalo Hotel

Special Conference Room Rates:

$109 Single or Double
$119 Triples or Quads

Send panel (or paper) proposals to Jim Swan (e-mail submissions
preferred):
jswan@acsu.buffao.edu

Or, via US mail:

Department of English
306 Clemens Hall
SUNY at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260

Deadline: April 1, 2001
(after April 1st, proposals will be considered on a space-available
basis only)

For more information check out our website:
http://cas.buffalo.edu/events/sls2001

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Date: 23 Feb 2001 12:45:47 -0800
From: James Bono 
Subject: SLS 2001: New Deadline and Updated Call (#2)

Forgive the first try. This version should be cleaner and more easily
forwardable to others.

                                Jim Bono

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