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litsci-l-digest Friday, May 20 2005 Volume 01 : Number
106
In this issue:
SLSA spring Decodings is in the mail to 2004 & 2005 members
Announcement of 4th European SLSA meeting June 2006
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Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 18:07:31 +0000
From: "Carol Colatrella"
Subject: SLSA spring Decodings is in the mail to 2004 & 2005 members
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DECODINGS
Newsletter of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Spring 2005 v.14, no.1
SLSA 2005 CONFERENCE, Chicago, IL, November 10-13, 2005
EMERGENT SYSTEMS, COGNITIVE ENVIRONMENTS
Site Chair: Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago
Program Chair: Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University
Conference Website: http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/links/slsacfp.htm
To emphasize the explicit inclusion of the arts, as indicated by the new
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 these plenary sessions, and may form panel streams around the themes
introduced in the sessions. A keynote talk will be given by Nobel
Laureate
Gerald Edelman. Presentations on the subject of cognition in and of the
arts
will be made by Eduardo Kac, Cary Wolfe, Barbara Stafford, N. Katherine
Hayles, and others. 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.
Submissions have been very strong for this meeting, and will be closed
for
good as of May 15. International submissions have been especially
healthy
this year, with abstracts coming from England, Wales, France, the
Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Israel, Turkey, Croatia, Australia, and New
Zealand. Speakers must be 2005 members of SLSA. To join or to renew
membership, please see
http://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 6968. Email:
jlorder@jhupress.jhu.edu. A renewal form is attached; check your label
for
your last year of paid membership.
Travel Awards: SLSA provides a limited number of travel awards for
underfunded individuals attending the annual conference. Members of SLSA
who
participate in the annual conference may apply for travel subventions.
An
applicant should email name, title of SLSA 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. SLSA officers will review the applications and approve funds for one
to
three individuals (or possibly more). Each person awarded funds will be
presented with a 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, Science, and the Arts. 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, via electronic mail to
hayles@humnet.ucla.edu. Please send a copy of your formatted essay as a
PDF
or Word file, or send a pointer to a URL where the essay is posted.
The Schachterle Essay Prize: Lance Schachterle, founding president of
the
society, 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. Eligible authors wishing to submit essays
(published
or accepted for publication) should send them prior to September 1 to
the
SLSA Executive Director, Carol Colatrella, LCC, Georgia Institute of
Technology, via electronic mail to carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu.
Please
send a copy of your formatted essay as a PDF or Word file, or send a
pointer
to a URL where the essay is posted.
Note: all of the awards described above are presented during the
Business
Meeting of the annual fall conference. One may submit only one entry to
one
of the two essay prize competitions.
A MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FORM is enclosed. Please check your address label
to
see your last year of paid membership. SLSA is a small society heavily
dependent on member subscriptions to support the newsletter, the
conference,
and travel subsidies for underfunded individuals to participate in the
conference. THANKS for your support.
FINANCIAL REPORT 2003-2004
Prepared by Carol Colatrella, Executive Director, October 12, 2004;
presented in Durham NC
Balance on hand 9/30/03: Wachovia Bank, Atlanta $9, 060.87
Sovereign Bank, Worcester 3,543.11
12,603.98
Income: Dues & donations??SLSA sharefrom Hopkins UP 7,894.01
Journal Annual Dividend 19,906.61
Donations: Essay Prizes 500.00
TOTAL INCOME 28,300.62
Expenses: Conferences??SLS 2003 travel subsidies 1,850.00
---SLS 2003 essay prizes
500.00
---SLS 2003 conference agendas 17.60
---SLS 2003 conference folders
57.28
---SLS Paris 2004 subsidy
1,227.00
---SLS Paris 2004 gift 100.00
---SLS 2004 call for papers
13.05
Configurations??Bibliography Assistant 200.00
--GT subsidy from dividend 9,906.01
Decodings (4 issues)??printing 2,165.00
---postage
819.80
---assistant
200.00
Accountant 300.00
Massachusetts Fees??Attorney General 35.00
---Incorporation Fee 15.00
TOTAL EXPENSES 27,416.34
Balance on hand 9/30/04 Wachovia Bank, Atlanta 9,997.04
Sovereign Bank, Worcester 3,497.01
13,494.05
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CANDIDATE STATEMENTS for member-at large, a two-year position beginning
November 2005.
Trace Reddell
Assistant Professor and Graduate Director, Digital Media Studies,
University
of Denver
Ph.D., English Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder 1996; M.A.,
Creative Writing (Fiction), University of Colorado, Boulder 1989; B.A.,
English Literature, Texas Tech University 1986
I have been a member since 2000, and I consider SLSA the most important
and
inspiring
organization to which I belong. The annual conference has provided me
many
stimulating
conversations, and the healthy reading and media lists I typically bring
home with me afterwards
usually break the bank. Austin and Duke were both amazing experiences
that
continue to influence
my teaching, writing, and digital media work. I would appreciate an
opportunity to be involved
at a more formal level of service by taking on any duties necessary to
ensure the viability of
the organization. As a member-at-large, I would enjoy any opportunity to
discuss processes by
which the University of Denver might host the annual conference within a
three-to-five year
window from now.
Lisa Yaszek
Assistant Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture,
Georgia Tech. Degrees: Ph.D. in English Literature, University of
Wisconsin;
M.A. in English Literature, University of Wisconsin; B.A. in English,
University of Michigan.
I have been involved in SLSA since 1997. My research examines how
contemporary authors depict personal and political relations as they are
mediated by technoscientific practices. My first book, The Self Wired,
explores the development of cyborg writing as a new way to represent the
impact of postwar technologies on American subjectivity. My current
project,
Galactic Suburbia, demonstrates how the women??s science fiction that
emerged
in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, critically engaged emergent technocultural
institutions and prefigured the literature we now recognize as feminist
science fiction. I am also in the first stages of a third project,
Afrofuturism, in which I examine the evolution of the science fictional
and
fantastic devices deployed by artists of the African diaspora to stake
out
spaces for black identities and praxes in a global future imaginary.
I am particularly interested in increasing SLSA??s visibility by
establishing
a presence at academic conferences other than MLA. We can do this by
using
the SLSA website and/or Decodings to circulate information about
organizations amenable to SLSA??s interdisciplinary approach and to
organize
panel submissions for their conferences. SIGGRAPH, the Science Fiction
Research Association, the American Studies Association, and the Cultural
Studies Association would all welcome our presence, and I am sure that
my
colleagues in SLS can identify a number of other groups that would do so
as
well.
In line with our recent name change to acknowledge the centrality of the
arts within our organization, I am also interested in helping SLSA
recruit
more artists who explore the relations of science, literature, and the
arts
in their work. In my capacity as the administrator of the Bud Foote
Science
Fiction Collection at Georgia Tech I have brought a number of authors,
artists, and editors working in various media to campus to speak with
faculty and students. My experience suggests that such people would be
delighted to share their experiences with professional organizations
such as
our own SLSA. Extending our recruitment efforts in this direction would
have
the additional benefit of bringing our work to the attention of
intellectually engaged cultural workers outside the academy as well.
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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:01:11 -0400
From: "Wayne Miller"
Subject: Announcement of 4th European SLSA meeting June 2006
4th European SLSA Meeting
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Science, Literature, and the Arts
Amsterdam 13-16 June 2006
Flier: http://slsa.press.jhu.edu/european_conference_flier.html
Hosted by: Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), UvA
http://www.hum.uva.nl/asca/
Plenary talks and conversations
Evelyn Fox Keller + Mieke Bal
Gillian Beer + Robert Zwijnenberg
Local Programme Committee:
Jos=E9 van Dijck (UvA), ren=E9e c. hoogland (Radboud U, Nijmegen), =
Manuela
Rossini (UvA), Cor van der Weele (U Wageningen), Willem Weststeijn =
(Director
of ASCA), and
Robert Zwijnenberg (U Maastricht/U Leiden).
With the organisational support of: Eloe Kingma (Managing Director of =
ASCA),
Jantine van Gogh (Office Manager of ASCA), and other ASCA staff members
=
and
students.
International Advisory Board:
Yves Abrioux (Paris 3, F), James Bono (SUNY, Buffalo, USA), Carol =
Colatrella
(Georgia Tech, USA),
Hugh Crawford (Georgia Tech, USA), Florian Dombois (Hochschule der =
K=FCnste
Bern, CH), Eve Keller (Fordham U, USA), Susan Squier (Penn State, USA).
! Detailed information forthcoming on both the SLSA website and the =
ASCA
website soon !
Contact: Manuela Rossini (coordinator), m.s.rossini@uva.nl
The SLSA fosters the multidisciplinary study of the relations among
literature and language, the arts, science, medicine, and technology.
http://slsa.press.jhu.edu/index.html
The Society meets annually in the USA (Autumn) and, since 2000,
biannually=
in a European country (Spring). Previous European Meetings took place =
in
Brussels (2000), Aarhus (2002), and Paris (2004).
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