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     Fwd: Fw: biopoet: Welcome!
     FWD: CFP: "Emergent Systems, Cognitive Environments"

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Date: Sun,  6 Mar 2005 15:25:32 -0500
From: Jason Arenstein 
Subject: Fwd: Fw: biopoet: Welcome!

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    Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:20:58 -0600
    From: Joseph Carroll 
Reply-To: Joseph Carroll 
 Subject: Fw: biopoet: Welcome!
      To: barsch , Linda Carroll ,
Judith Saunders , David Gugin
, Michael Low , Aaron Jeffrey
Hames , Jonathan Keir ,
Jason Arenstein , ammar hashim , ervin-
nieves@uiowa.edu, "Zachary P. Norwood" , Nancy Easterlin
, Denis Dutton , dave evans
, marcus.nordlund@engelska.uu.se, Clinton Machann , Harold Fromm ,
jgottschall@stlawu.edu, "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" , dan
kruger , fonte michael , Robert
Perchan 

Welcome!
            Hello, everybody.  About three weeks ago, Tom Dolack at the
U of
Oregon opened a new listserve for discussions of Darwinian literary
studies and
aesthetics.  When it was first opened, it had about 15 members, and I
gather
now has about thirty.  I'm sending this note around to anyone I can
think of
who might be interested in subscribing and who to my knowledge hasn't
yet
subscribed.  I'll forward the original invitation below, which contains
the
address of the listowner, Tom Dolack.  To subscribe, just send him a
note.  And
of course feel free to forward this note to anyone you know who might
also be
interested.


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From: Tom Dolack
To: biopoet@lists.uoregon.edu
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 11:03 PM
Subject: biopoet: Welcome!


Hello all:

I wanted to welcome you to the Biopoetics mailing list. If some of you
are
wondering how you got on this, virtually everyone on the list (a scant
15
people at the moment) has some connection or other with Brett Cooke, who
midwifed the idea for this list and supplied some of your names.

This list was started with the intention of giving people interested in
biopoetics, cognitive approaches to literature, theory of mind and
assorted
interrelated fields a forum for discussion, conversation,
question/answer,
bibliographic inquiries and the like. As with any such list the more
people the
merrier, so if you know of anyone who may wish join have them email me,
or they
can email majordomo@lists.uoregon.edu with "subscribe biopoet" as the
text of
the message (w/out quotation marks).

So please use this list you your advantage. Hopefully in the near future
Brett
or I will try to kick of some discussion. Thank you all for
participating and
if there are any questions, please feel free to email me.

Tom Dolack

University of Oregon

tdolack@uoregon.edu

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Here's a list of addresses from some early subscribers:

# list of addresses for biopoet
tdolack@darkwing.uoregon.edu
brett-cooke@tamu.edu
edissana@seanet.com
jcarroll@umsl.edu
rstorey@loxinfo.co.th
kcoe@azcc.arizona.edu
aiken@frognet.net
wayne.allen@mnsu.edu
darancourlaferriere@comcast.net
John Orbell 
"Michelle Scalise" 
"Rose Nunez" 
Glen and Rhoda Love 



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Jason Arenstein
Ph.D. Student
Department of English
Ballantine Hall
1020 East Kirkwood Avenue
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
jda@indiana.edu
http://mypage.iu.edu/~jda
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:59:23 -0500
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: FWD: CFP: "Emergent Systems, Cognitive Environments"

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"Emergent Systems, Cognitive Environments:" Annual Conference of SLSA, =
Chicago, IL, November 10-13, 2005 Call for Papers: The Emergence of the
=
Novel as a Critical Meta-System In Models of Value, James Thompson has =
argued that novels are "a kind of cultural laboratory/imaginary in which
=
various forms of social evaluation can be modeled and tested." Following
=
Thompson's lead, this panel wants to consider the novel as a meta-system
=
that has emerged to answer the challenges that new scientific discourses
=
have posed since the eighteenth century. We would like to elicit the =
reasons and forces behind the scene that have made the novel the most =
successful genre in the modern age and that are frequently elaborated by
=
novels themselves. Due to the specialization and "differentiation of =
systems" (Luhmann), the scientific world has become subdivided into =
autonomous disciplines that lack communication with each other as well
as =
with the world of everyday life. Nevertheless, new disciplines, such as
=
evolutionary biology or organic chemistry as well as technological =
transformations of labor or the media, had and still have an enormous =
impact on our lives. Fiction alone, in particular the genre of the
novel, =
has provided an artificial space in which the complexities and
intricacies =
of modern reality can be represented. As such, the novel is itself =
genuinely experimental because it simulates and confronts discourses
with =
each other that are otherwise separated. It has the capability to model
=
virtual worlds and by doing so it challenges and critics the real world.
 =
We are inviting papers that consider the novel as a meta-system and
papers =
that want to challenge this notion. Proposals from all time periods are
=
welcome. Please submit abstracts of 500-words or less by April 22, 2005
=
to: Christian Weber and Christine Lehleiter, Department of Germanic =
Studies, Indiana University, e-mail: cpweber@indiana.edu or
chlehlei@indian=
a.edu (Please paste your text into the body of the message, rather than
=
using an attachment.)




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"Emergent Systems, Cognitive Environments:" Annual Conference of = SLSA,
Chicago, IL, November 10-13, 2005



Call for Papers:



The Emergence of the Novel as a Critical Meta-System



In Models of Value, = James Thompson has argued that novels are =93a
kind of
cultural laboratory/imagin= ary in which various forms of social
evaluation
can be modeled and tested.=94 = Following Thompson=92s lead, this panel
wants
to consider the novel as a meta-system = that has emerged to answer the
challenges that new scientific discourses have = posed since the
eighteenth
century. We would like to elicit the reasons and = forces behind the
scene
that have made the novel the most successful genre in = the modern age
and
that are frequently elaborated by novels themselves.



Due to the specialization and =93differentiation of systems=94 =
(Luhmann),
the scientific world has become subdivided into autonomous disciplines
that =
lack communication with each other as well as with the world of everyday
=
life. Nevertheless, new disciplines, such as evolutionary biology or
organic
= chemistry as well as technological transformations of labor or the
media,
had and = still have an enormous impact on our lives. Fiction alone, in
particular the = genre of the novel, has provided an artificial space in
which the complexities = and intricacies of modern reality can be
represented. As such, the novel is = itself genuinely experimental
because it
simulates and confronts discourses with = each other that are otherwise
separated. It has the capability to model = virtual worlds and by doing
so it
challenges and critics the real world.



We are inviting papers that consider the novel as a meta-system = and
papers
that want to challenge this notion. Proposals from all time periods =
are
welcome. Please submit abstracts of 500-words or less by April 22, 2005
= to:
Christian Weber and Christine Lehleiter, Department of Germanic
Studies,=
Indiana=  University, = e-mail: cpweber@indiana.edu or
chlehlei@indiana.edu (Please paste your text into the body of the
message,
rather than using = an attachment.)

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