CALL FOR PAPERS:
EQUINOXES 2000
SCIENCE AND CULTURE: LITERATURE/THEORY/ACTION
BROWN UNIVERSITY
March 10-12, 2000
DEPARTMENTS OF FRENCH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
In conjunction with the Wayland Collegium
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
DAVID BELL
Professor of French,
Department of Romance Studies, Duke University
The eighth annual Equinoxes graduate student conference is seeking
submissions that explore any aspect of the relationship between science and
culture. Papers may be on any period and national tradition and may be
presented in either English or French. Suggested topics include (but are
not limited to):
*Scientific Discourse in and Around the Novel
*Science Fiction and Popular Culture
*The Philosophy of Science
*Scientia Sexualis: The Science of Gender and Sexuality
*Millennial Visions: Science in and After the First Millennium
*Science and Imperialism: From the Age of Exploration to the Colonization
of Space
*Popular Science: Mass Media and the Idea of Progress
*Positivism and Its Discontents
*Science and Cultural Theory After the Sokal Affair
*Rethinking Bruno Latour: The Cultural Contexts of Scientific Research
*Science and Revolution: The Legacy of Thomas Kuhn
*The Medical Conception of the Body
*What is Objectivity?: Empiricism After Foucault
*Representing Science: Science and the Visual Arts
*Science Hard and Soft: Narrativity and the Human Sciences
*Mad Scientists and Nutty Professors: The Scientist as Cultural and
Literary Figure
*Machine Art: Technology and Aesthetics
*Prosthesis and the Supplemented Body
*From Phrenology to the Bell Curve: The Science of Race/The Racism of Science
*Gothic Science: Horror and the Dark Side of Progress
*The Anthropological Idea of Culture
*Darwin's Not in Kansas Anymore: Teaching Evolution in the Classroom
*From Frankenstein to Flubber: Science on Film
*Cyborgs and Cyberspace
*Mapping the Mind: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Science of Consciousness
*Brave New Worlds: Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Beyond
Please send 1-2 page abstracts by January 7, 2000 to:
Jared Green/ Equinoxes 2000
Box E
Department of Comparative Literature
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
E-mail submissions to: Jared_Green@brown.edu (please indicate "Equinoxes"
in the subject heading)
Please do not send complete papers. Please do not include your name on your
proposal; we review proposals anonymously. Please DO include your name,
institutional and email addresses, and paper title in the cover letter
that accompanies the abstract.
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