Biomedical Sciences and Popular Culture
Submissions sought for a twelve-member seminar that will be held in
conjunction with:
Interdisciplinary Studies: In the Middle, Across, or in Between?
Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
Yale University, February 25-27, 2000
"Biomedical Sciences and Popular Culture" will be a twelve person ACLA 2000
seminar that will join scholars interested in exploring the continuum between
biomedical and popular discourses by placing special critical emphasis on
theorizing our current cultural fascination with the "hidden world" of
microbes and innerspace. Participants may choose to focus on plagues and
epidemics, biological warfare, invisible invaders and microscopic villains,
genetic engineering, and all other related areas of investigation. The seminar
will be primarily concerned with thinking through how science and popular
culture mutually inform one another and with what psychological ramifications
and ethical implications emerge from this relationship.
Please direct all questions and/or forward one page abstracts to:
Allyson D. Polsky
Program in the Human Sciences
412 Phillips Hall
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994.7034 (fax)
or via e-mail to: <cogito@gwu.edu>
Submission deadline: no later than 30 August 1999.
General information about the ACLA conference can be found at
http://www.yale.edu/complit/acla2000.htm
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