Renaissance Technologies
A one-day interdisciplinary conference at the University of Huddersfield
in association with the Northern Renaissance Seminar
Saturday, March 16, 2002, 10am-5.30pm
Confirmed speakers: Stephen Clucas, Ceri Sullivan, Jonathan Sawday,
Scott Wilson
This conference will focus on the theme of Renaissance Technologies.
Issues of technological innovation and revolution will be approached
from a variety of disciplinary standpoints and theoretical positions.
Fruitful avenues for investigation might be: information and print
technology; material consumption; the commodification of technology;
interaction between human and machine; representations of the
meta-human; the economic influence and repercussions of technology; the
nature of the body; banking and financial transactions; imperial and
republic technologies; measurement and dominion; definitions of spatial
relations; labour and agriculture; medical technology and anatomical
prints; emblematic representation. Specific discussions could range from
a discussion of the iron-man Talus in The Faerie Queene to the impact of
new arms technology on early modern warfare or the effect of new
time-keeping instruments on Restoration society. Theoretical
considerations might deploy the work of Michel Foucault, Friedrich
Kittler, Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard. Papers from Postgraduate
students are welcomed.
Please send abstracts of 400 words (post or email) by November 15th 2001
to Jerome de Groot, English Department, University of Huddersfield, St.
Peter's Building, St. Peter's Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1RA, United
Kingdom, Telephone: 01484 478424, Fax: 01484 478428, Email:
j.degroot@hud.ac.uk
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