Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 797.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
www.princeton.edu/humanist/
Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 06:51:04 +0100
From: Geoffrey Rockwell <grockwel@mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Call for Participants
Call for Participation (for detailed information see:
http://textologies.mcmaster.ca/
Textologies: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Multimedia Technologies,
Ethics and Culture will be held at McMaster University on October 14-16
2004. This event will bring together researchers involved in McMaster's
new interdisciplinary initiative in Technology and Culture with other
leading scholars on innovative multimedia technologies, ethics and cultural
theory from other universities. The workshop will be organized around the
following presentations; responses, discussants and working groups will be
invited for each.
Proposed Program
1) Thursday, October 14: ìAre Humans Obsolete? Post-Humanism and
Technology-Related Interdisciplinary Research,î Langdon Winner, Professor
of Political Science and Center for Cultural Design, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute.
2) Friday, October 15: ìInformation and Reality: IT and the Human
Condition,îArthur Kroker, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and
Theory, University of Victoria.
3) Friday, October 15: ìCritical Theory, Technology and Culture,î Andrew
Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, Simon Fraser
University.
4) Saturday, October 16: ìVisual Poetics and Digital Technology,î Johanna
Drucker, Robertson Professor of Media Studies and English, University of
Virginia.
5) Saturday, October 16: ìDigital Directions in the Humanities,î Martha
Nell Smith, Director of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
(MITH), University of Maryland.
Practical Details
The workshop is being funded by SSHRC and therefore registration costs, all
lunches and a Friday evening dinner, will be included for invited
participants. Publication will be sought for the workshop proceedings,
including invited presentations and responses. If you are interested in
participating in this workshop, please send a short C.V. and a statement of
your interest in relation to your areas of research and/or teaching via
email (kroekert@mcmaster.ca or andrew.mactavish@mcmaster.ca) before May 15
2004. Limited spaces have been reserved for graduate students, who are
also invited to reply. Invitations will be issued in late May. For more
details, please visit the Textologies web site at:
http://textologies.mcmaster.ca/
Program Committee:
Travis Kroeker, Religious Studies
Andrew Mactavish, Multimedia
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1
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