CFP: Society for Literature & Science
Call for Papers - SLS 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science, Buffalo, NY Technologies - Bodies - Narratives The Accountability of Scientific and Medical Practices http://cas.buffalo.edu/events/sls2001 SLS 2001 will focus upon the production of accounts, histories, narratives, images, diagrams, tabulations (vote counts?), their circulation and interpretation in a world of discourse networks, software agents, and hybrid actants; laboratories, pharmacies, and clinics; soft bodies and hard data. And, equally, the accountability of cultural subjects as ethical agents negotiating discourses of gender and ethnicity, money and class, and the authority of technological, medical, and biological explanation. Proposals addressing these issues, and others as well, are welcome. We especially encourage individual and panel proposals in a variety of fields--from medical humanities to disability studies to cognitive science to artificial life, cyberspace, virtuality, the posthuman, etc.--whether or not they "fit" the explicit conference theme. Plenary Speaker Elizabeth Grosz Information and Contacts: Society for Literature and Science 2001 Conference Buffalo, New York Local Arrangements Chair: Jim Bono Program Chair: Jim Swan Dates: October 11-14, 2001 Conference Hotel: The Hyatt Regency Buffalo Hotel Special Conference Room Rates: $109 Single or Double $119 Triples or Quads Send panel (or paper) proposals to Jim Swan (e-mail submissions preferred) jswan@acsu.buffao.edu Or, via US mail: Department of English 306 Clemens Hall SUNY at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 Deadline: April 1, 2001 (after April 1st, proposals will be considered on a space-available basis only) For more information check out our website: http://cas.buffalo.edu/events/sls2001 - - - - - - - - - - - Buffalo? Yes, Buffalo! The "City of No Illusions" or, according to USA Today, the "City with a Big Heart"! If our warmth and accessibility doesn't melt the permafrost, perhaps our celebrated modernist architecture--from Louis Sullivan's magnificent early skyscraper, The Prudential Building, to Richardson's Buffalo Psychiatric Center, to Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House (and four others!)-- will do the trick. Or how about the world-class Albright-Knox Art Gallery? Or this year's centenary celebration of the 1901 Pan-Am World Exposition? And a citywide grid created by no other than Frederick Law Olmsted ulminating in magnificent Delaware Park. Still not moved? If you're a technology buff, before Silicon Valley, Buffalo was "The City of Light": the first electrified city in America and the showplace for the wonders of the new 20th Century as captured by the amazing Tower of Light--the centerpiece of the new century's inaugural Pan-Am Exposition in 1901--caught on film by no other than Thomas Alva Edison himself. From the "City of Lights' to the would-be "City of Bytes," Buffalo has architecture, technology, artifacts, and a rich history of representations of nature, race, gender, and class (from the Pan-Am to internationally acclaimed Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center) to commend itself to the most cosmopolitan academic. Plus bars that stay open to 4 am, more theater than most other cities in America could even imagine, and music that can't be beat for quantity, quality, or variety--what are you waiting for?