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litsci-l-digest Monday, December 8 2003 Volume 01 : Number
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Call for Papers: special issue on "Literature and Science"
Call for Papers: SLS2004-Paris-June 2004
Re: Call for Papers: SLS2004-Paris-June 2004
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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 00:52:38 +0000
From: "Carol Colatrella"
Subject: Call for Papers: special issue on "Literature and Science"
Revista canaria de estudios ingleses invites essays for a special issue
(No.
50, April 2005) on ?¨Literature and Science.?Æ Contributions should
explore
how scientific and technological revolutions have elicited the
transformation of the English Literature in any period and genre. Topics
might include production of a new (literary) language, emergence or
displacement of genres, literary (persuasive) display of scientific
innovations regarding revolutionary conceptions of the universe and
cosmos,
time, space and the human being. Authors must submit a substantial
abstract
not later than 31st March 2004. On acceptance, the full version
(following
the MLA style guidelines) must reach editors before 15th September 2004.
For
further enquiries please contact guest editor Dr. Tomas Monterrey at
jmonterr@ull.es. You can visit our web page at
http://webpages.ull.es/users/rceing
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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 01:06:43 +0000
From: "Carol Colatrella"
Subject: Call for Papers: SLS2004-Paris-June 2004
CONVERSATION : ENACTING NEW SYNERGIES IN ARTS AND SCIENCES
3rd SLS European Conference, Paris, (University Paris 8 and Citˆ©
Internationale Universitaire) -- Wed. June 23rd to Sat. 26th, 2004.
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (with apologies for any cross-mailing).
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS : JANUARY 15th 2004
Following on from Brussels (2000) and Aarhus (2002), the 3rd SLS
European
conference will be held at the Citˆ© Universitaire and at the
University
Paris 8, from June 23rd to 26th 2004.
SLS Paris is hosted by the Research Center on Literature and Cognition
and
the Graduate School "Pratiques et Thˆ©ories du sens" at University
Paris 8.
THEME.
The conference theme, "Conversation : Enacting New Synergies in Arts and
Sciences", will address a series of topics designed to promote intensive
exchanges between scholars from a wide variety of countries working in
very
different disciplines, both in the humanities and in science.
In order to stimulate on-going productive conversation between
participants,
the work of the conference will be organized into a number of "streams".
Each stream will occupy more than one workshop and may employ a variety
of
formats, including "invited symposia" with more extended presentations
and
respondents, round-table discussions, and the traditional 3- or 4-paper
format. Links between streams will further be suggested.
Among the various concerns of members of the SLS community, the
following
topics have already been suggested. They are provisionally listed in
alphabetical order, although possible crossovers from one stream to
another
will be immediately apparent.
- - Complexity in art and science.
- - Thought and mind experiments.
- - Rhetoric of science.
- - Performative science.
- - Forgotten ancestors of significance to the interdisciplinary field
of
literature, art and science (Poincarˆ©, Whitehead, I. A. Richards,
Bachelard
?Äô?Ñ|.).
- - Exemplary readings, based on a particular work or a limited corpus
and
focusing on more theoretical concerns (Duchamp, OULIPO, , Wittgenstein,
Gilles ChÀܬ¢telet ?Äô?Ñ|).
- - Ecology and environmentalism
- - Biotechnology.
- - Between 2 cultures: medicine and literature; chemistry and
literature,
etc. This stream aims at promoting a thematic interest which has always
been
part of SLS in the U.S.A. but which was perhaps under-represented in
previous SLS Europe conferences.
Standardization.
- - Translating between disciplines: interdisciplinary borrowings; the
migration of models from one discipline to another ?Äô?Ñ|).
- - Visualization technologies.
- - Understanding social/technical life.
The list is open to further suggestions. To this end, we have created
the
notion of emerging streams awaiting proposals for workshops on any
subject
relevant to the SLS community, provided that submissions are
interdisciplinary in their approach and multinational in their
participants.
CONFERENCE LANGUAGES.
- - English will be the main language of the conference.
- - Certain workshops may be organized in French.
- - Initiatives for English/French workshops will be particularly
welcomed.
- - Two of the four plenary sessions will be in French, with
simultaneous
translation being supplied for these sessions only.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS.
There will be four plenary sessions, each with one keynote speaker. Two
will
be in English, two in French. It is hoped to organize one or two of the
plenary sessions off-site, in relevant Paris institutions.
REGISTRATION FEE.
This is in the process of being finalized and will be kept as low as
possible. It will in no circumstances exceed 200 Euros (inclusive of
lunch,
coffee breaks and mˆ©tro tickets for transport to the Citˆ©
Universitaire
and any off-site plenary sessions, as well as abstracts and the usual
conference materials).
WEBSITE
The conference website will be on-line before the end of the year.
ACCOMMODATION
A list of hotels with guaranteed prices, close to the conference site in
southern Paris, will be given on the website. Efforts are being made to
find
low-cost accommodation for graduate students. It is also hoped to
establish
a network of students willing to lend them a room. Information will be
posted as soon as possible.
SUBMISSIONS.
As soon as the website is running, it will be possible to submit
abstracts
of 200 words directly.
Meanwhile, submissions are welcomed at the following e-mail address:
slsparis04@aol.com.
Abstracts should be included within your message. Please do not send
attachments.
Please send your abstracts by January 15th.
In the interests of constituting transdisciplinary panels converging on
shared interests, participants are encouraged to ensure that their
abstracts
clearly formulate the intellectual objective they will be pursuing.
They are also invited to indicate the stream(s) into which they believe
their paper might best fit. They may furthermore suggest additional
panels
in which they might like to participate.
If you are interested in helping to organize any of the streams listed
above, please let the conference organizers know as soon as possible.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE.
SLS Paris 2004 is co-organized by Yves Abrioux (Universitˆ© Paris 3),
Noˆ´lle Batt (Universitˆ© Paris 8) and Mathieu Duplay (Universitˆ©
Lille 3).
The organizing committee also includes: Laurence Dahan-Gaida
(Universitˆ© de
Franche-ComtÀܬ© ÀÜ BesanÀÜ?üon), Sylvain Dambrine (UniversitÀܬ© Paris
8),
Christine Maillard (Universitˆ© Strasbourg 2), Alexis de Saint-Ours
(Universitˆ© Paris 8).
The international program committee further includes: Mette Bryld
(Syddansk
University, Denmark), May Chehab (University of Cyprus), Carol
Colatrella
(Georgia Institute of Technology), Florian Dombois
(Germany/Switzerland),
Mark Freed (Central Michigan University, U.S.A.), Jay Labinger
(California
Institute of Technology, U.S.A.), Nina Lykke (Linkˆping University,
Sweden), Randi Markussen (University of Aarhus, Denmark), Finn Olesen
(University of Aarhus, Denmark), Susan Squier (Penn State University,
U.S.A.).
INQUIRIES AND INFORMATION.
Please do not hesitate to use the conference e-mail address
slsparis04@aol.com for inquiries on any matters relating to the
conference.
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Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:53:14 -0800
From: Jack Sarfatti
Subject: Re: Call for Papers: SLS2004-Paris-June 2004
Most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were allegedly
Free Masons. Look at the Eye in the Triangle on our dollar bill. The
real meaning of America's "Manifest Destiny" is "Making Star Trek Real"
as in the RAF's "Ad Astra"!
This same idea is in General Douglas MacArthur's 1962 speech "Duty,
Honor, Country" on 'harnessing the cosmic energy". The "cosmic energy"
is the "dark energy/matter" /\zpf field in my new and original
generalized Einstein geometrodynamic field equations below.
bcc
re: http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.doc
http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
On Sunday, December 7, 2003, at 10:21 PM, andrew laidlaw wrote:
Dear jack,
Jack earlier: No physicist is completely convinced about anything.
"You sound pretty convinced about GT."
Yes, like all physicists in the field. My bet is on Einstein's
Guv(Geometry) = - (string tension)^-1Tuv(Matter)
as correct in its proper domain as a good approximation in non-exotic
vacuum.
EEP is an approximation as well. Astronauts float.
I generalize Einstein's eq to exotic vacuum
Guv(Geometry) + /\zpfguv(Geometry) = - (string tension)^-1Tuv(Matter)
This same equation from another POV is
Tuv(Geometry) + Tuv(Exotic Vacuum) + Tuv(Matter) = 0
Just like in Newtonian Equilibrium Statics for the Architecture of
Super Cosmos
This is what the Free Masons were really trying to say BTW.
Opening the "Alchemical Underground Stream" is violating the Bianchi
identities
so that the geometric and the matter currents directly intermingle and
are not
separately locally conserved. This is the key to practical metric
engineering IMHO.
This is what the real "Da Vinci Code" is all about IMHO. I was first
introduced
to all that by Carlo Suares in Paris in 1973 as told in "Destiny
Matrix".
Carlo called the "Da Vinci Code" the "Cipher of Genesis."
...
Most physicists do bet on
1. violation of local realism i.e. they believe JS
Bell.
"Who also canvassed a return to Lorentzian relativity,
subject to a preferred frame?"
I am open to the notion of preferred frame. There is empirical evidence
for it.
GR has preferred frames! The local equations are frame independent but
the space of solutions is not in the sense of isotropy of CMB.
2. signal locality
So they have their cake and eat it too.
BTW quantum reality can be
1. both non-objective and nonlocal (many quantum
BIT worlds)
2. objective and nonlocal (Bohm's realism consistent
with both many BIT
quantum worlds and many IT brane worlds in
hyperspace.
"So you seem to agree that the question "Do particles
generate fields, or do fields generate particles?"
undermines the theorems?"
No, I do not see what your point is here? It's too vague.
I. Wheeler's "Mass without mass" is the IT geometrodynamic field
making particles as wormhole micro-geons. If G* >> G(Newton)
on small scale the idea works.
II. "Collapse" has qubit fields make IT fields and particles.
This is much more debatable than I.
"EPR is (trivially) consistent with signal locality,"
Yes that is not the issue. The issue is what one must change in QM
to allow signal nonlocality since the latter is IMHO a fact of nature
for complex conscious open systems. I interpret Dick Bierman's
presponse data as a direct measurement of signal nonlocality.
"and the requisite
nonlocal aspects of the epistemology are readily
understood in the context of distributed systems?"
Too vague. I do not know what you mean.
"Well, that's one objection removed."
Speak math. Ordinary language is too vague for these issues.
3. nonobjective and local (many quantum BIT worlds)
all 3 have signal locality at the micro-quantum level i.e. "sub-quantal
heat death" in Antony Valentini's terms.
"Thanks Jack,
andrew."
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