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litsci-l-digest      Saturday, February 19 2005      Volume 01 : Number
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     Mephistos 2005 Conference
     updated cfp for SLSA 2005

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:09:47 -0500
From: "Fielding, Heather" 
Subject: Mephistos 2005 Conference

The graduate community at Brown University, in association with the =
Faculty Committee on Science & Technology Studies, is proud to host =
MEPHISTOS 2005, an international conference on the history, philosophy,
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and sociology of science, technology and medicine. MEPHISTOS began in =
1981 as a regional event organized by graduate students at Princeton =
University and the University of Pennsylvania. It has since grown into a
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widely attended annual conference hosted by universities throughout the
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United States and Canada. Throughout its twenty-three-year history, the
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motivation behind MEPHISTOS has remained the same: it is an important =
opportunity for graduate students to present papers, participate in =
discussions, and collaborate with other students in the =
interdisciplinary field of science studies.



MEPHISTOS 2005 will be held on March 5-6 in List 120 on Brown's main =
campus, located in the heart of Providence's historic East Side. This =
year's program features papers and discussions on the following topics:
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media and their messages; faith in science; public health in modern =
America; judgment and values in 20th-century scientific thought; and =
science and the public. The conference program, paper abstracts, and =
local information are available at www.brown.edu/Students/Mephistos.



This event has been generously funded by the Society for the History of
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Technology and the following sponsors at Brown University: the Graduate
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School, Humanities Center, Faculty Committee on Science and Technology =
Studies, Office of the President, John Nicholas Brown Center, Graduate =
Student Council, Department of History of Art and Architecture, =
Department of Philosophy, Department of Anthropology, and Department of
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American Civilization.



MEPHISTOS is free and open to the public; we ask that those who plan to
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attend the conference email the Chair of the Organizing Committee at =
mephistos@brown.edu  .

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:59:48 -0600
From: "Clarke, Bruce" 
Subject: updated cfp for SLSA 2005

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Dear litsci-l: Joe Tabbi and I have set up a dedicated e-mail =
destination for all slsa 2005 submissions and program correspondence: =
2005.slsa@gmail.com.  I've attached to this note a revised version of =
the cfp with that new text, and also pasted it below. 

Thanks for referring to this version of the call, and updating those =
already disseminated if possible.  We look forward to your paper and =
panel proposals, and will see you in Chicago this fall.  All best, Bruce
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Clarke
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The Nineteenth Annual Conference of the

Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

Chicago, IL, November 10-13, 2005



EMERGENT SYSTEMS, COGNITIVE ENVIRONMENTS

Call for Papers and Panels

Deadline for Submission: May 1, 2005



Site Chair: Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago

Program Chair: Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University



Papers are invited in all science-oriented topics, especially those =
related to

emergence and cognition as these themes appear, variously, in

science, literature, technology, and the arts.



Individuals may submit abstracts of 150 words, and proposals for panels,
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usually composed of 3-4 speakers plus discussion in a 1-1/2 hour =
session, with specifications for any AV or Internet needs given at this
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time. In addition to standard formats,

we encourage innovative proposals for papers, panels, round-table =
discussions, and any non-traditional formats. The circulation of papers
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among panelists before presentation is encouraged. Sessions involving =
speakers and/or respondents that

transcend disciplinary boundaries are particularly welcome.



To emphasize the explicit inclusion of the arts, as indicated by the new
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organization name, SLSA, this year we are inviting artists to speak or =
perform in hour-long morning and evening plenary sessions. Scholars =
familiar with the work of each artist are also being invited to speak in
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these plenary sessions, and may form panel streams around the themes =
introduced in the sessions.



The conference will be held at the historic tower of the =
Intercontinental Hotel on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, in view of the =
Wrigley Building and the Chicago River.

A reception will be held nearby at the University of Illinois at =
Chicago,

in a venue overlooking a new landscape installation by Vito Acconci.



Speakers must be 2005 members of SLSA. To join or to renew membership, =
please go to =
https://www.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/associations/sls_membership.cgi, or =
call Johns Hopkins University Press Journals at 800 548 1784 (US & =
Canada only, all others call 410 516 6987). Mon-Fri 8-am-5pm FAX 410 516
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6968. Email: jlorder@jhupress.jhu.edu.



Please submit abstracts and proposals via e-mail (in plain text, without
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attachments) to: 2005.slsa@gmail.com.   Full contact information for =
each participant should be included with all papers and proposals.



The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts fosters the =
multi-disciplinary study of the relations among literature and language,
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the arts, science, medicine, and technology.





- --Professor Bruce Clarke
1st VP, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/clarke/
bruce.clarke@ttu.edu
office: 806 742-2500 x274
fax: 806 742-0989
cell: 806 928-9486
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