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Call for Papers: SLS in Florida--Thinking the Brain and Beyond 

FORWARDED TO HISTNEUR-L by Russell Johnson, list administrator (note 
that dates for this conference overlap with those of the Society for 
Neuroscience's annual meeting, 7-12 November):



CALL FOR PAPERS

The 1998 Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science
"SLS in Florida: Thinking the Brain and Beyond"

PLACE: Gainesville, Florida
HOTEL: University Center Hotel
DATES: 5-8 November
MAIN SPONSORS: University of Florida, Florida State University
SITE COORDINATOR: Kathryn A. Ziemak, UF Department of Conferences and
Seminars (kziemak@doce.ufl.edu)
SLS 98 WEBSITE: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~stripp/home.html

We hope you will join us later this year in north Florida, where you'll be
able to enjoy some typically fine November weather (70s-80s F) as well as
proximity to other splendid Florida localities (Orlando, St.  Augustine,
Cape Canaveral, Cedar Key, the Santa Fe River region). Although the
conference's main sponsors are UF and FSU, we anticipate additional
support from other local academic, scientific, and municipal institutions. 

DUE DATE FOR ALL CONTRIBUTIONS: 6 March 1998

Submit 150-300 word abstract with title. Pre-organized panels for
consideration can contain an additional summary paragraph along with
proposed session title. Please be clear in abstract about main point of
paper. Consider theoretical orientations as well as major texts/authors to
be taken up. Include too a brief list of keywords. Please print in block
paragraphs and include as heading (1) title of paper, (2) your name, (3)
affiliation/institution. Bear in mind that we will eventually use
abstracts of accepted papers in the program book (to be collated in the
fall), so make your copy as revised and clean as possible. A chance for
revision of abstracts will avail itself in the summer, though clean copy
is needed at all stages since we're not yet sure in what measure we'll be
scanning, writing from disks, or xeroxing for camera ready copy for our
master program-book files. Send four hard copies of abstract for Program
Committee, although e-mailed proposals are acceptable (PLEASE 'PASTE' BUT
DO NOT SEND AS 'ATTACHMENT'). 

During March, my co-chairs and I will begin sorting proposals and
organizing panels (see below for formats; 6-7 concurrent sessions, with
anticipated elimination of Sunday morning panels and replacement by Sunday
morning Wrap-Up plenary session). The Program Committee consists of Linda
Saladin (FSU), Stephanie Smith, Pamela Gilbert, and myself (all UF), with
assistance from Angela Bacsik, Ron Broglio, Bill Ruegg, Laura Sullivan,
and Stephanie Tripp (all UF). Site Coordinator is Kathryn Ziemak (UF), who
will be direct contact person for registration, hotel arrangements, and
travel or recreation inquiries. Additional electronic orchestration is
anticipated from Harvey Quamen (PSU at University Park), Program Book
Editor and Communications Coordinator for SLS 1997 in Pittsburgh. (Please
see Harvey's web pages concerning SLS 97 for session titles, paper
abstracts, and overall conference format;
http://www2.la.psu.edu/hquamen/SLS_97.htm). 

The 1998 conference title, "Thinking the Brain and Beyond," represents the
work of main speakers we're now trying to secure. With sights on scholars
in neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, and aesthetics, we're also
negotiating with the new University of Florida Brain Institute whom we
hope can serve as sponsor for keynote sessions. Also in the works is a
possible tour of the Institute's facilities which occupy a new building
(to be opened formally in August 1998) directly across the street from our
conference hotel. 

Whereas keynote talks will treat issues of the brain and cognition, panel
topics can represent ANY work in lisci, history of science, philosophy of
science, or science studies. SLS conference programs have always
represented the Society's members' wide range of interests and research
projects.  Special consideration will be given to abstracts, panels, or
posters in the following areas: cognitive science, neuroscience, language
and consciousenss, the rhetoric of science, computers and emergent
technologies, legacy of cience wars, posthumanity, post-twentieth-century
science and literature, and science studies and Latin America. 

FORMATS FOR SLS SESSIONS:

Regular SLS sessions: 10-12 mninute oral presentations; 3-4 participants
per session.

Special panels: Focused mini-symposium of a topic, theme or problem
among 3 panelists (15 minutes each).

Seminar sessions: Pre-circulated papers from 4 or more participants, with
designated moderator(s) responsible for circulating papers to panelists
and pre-subscribed audience in advance of meeting, and for facilitating
discussion among panelists and audience. 

Guest Scholar Sessions: Session centering upon extended presentation (up
to 30 minutes) by a well-known author, followed by respondents' comments
and open discussion. 

Alternative formats: Sessions centering on nontraditional or
"performative" presentations (videos, poetry/fiction readings, art
displays, multimedia presentations, web demonstrations), etc. (AV
equipment will be available, while at least two computer-projection
systems should be on hand for presentations involving web topics or
computer projects.) 

Posters (send abstract describing topics, styles, materials of poster)

(We encourage thematically focused, pre-organized panels as well, while
we urge people to volunteer as session Chairs.)

Following are some representative titles of possible sessions (see too
past issues of Decodings and SLS conference programs for additional
suggestions):

Brains, Bodies, and the Post-Human; Lecacy of Artificial Intelligence; 
Politics and Ideology of Neuroscience; Rhetorics/Poetics of Science;
Institutional Conflicts and Unions Among History of Science, Philosophy of
Science, and Literature of Science; Major Figures in Science Studies
(Thomas Kuhn, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Gerald Holton, Gilles Deleuze,
Stephen Jay gould, Andrew Ross, etc.); Figures in Pop-Science (Carl Sagan,
Phillip Morrison, James Burke, etc.); Science and Biography; Chaotics and
Compexity Theory; Hyperspace; Science and Asia; The Mogulization of
Technoscience: From Thomas Edison to Bill Gates; Capitalism,
Commercialism, and the Web;  Scientism and Science; Science, LIterature,
and Ethics; Science and Futurism; Technoscience, NASA, Space Science at
the Millenium; Science Fiction and the Thematics of Science; Editing
Science/Science Fiction;  Theories of Editing/Editing Theory; Legacy of
Critical Theory, Science Studies, and LitSci; The Ends/Future of Big
Science; Science, Millenium, and Apocalypse; Velikovsky and
Velikovskianism; Junk Science, Past and Present; Exotica of Science: From
Aether to Antimatter to Darkmatter;  Science Pedagogy; African Americans
and the Institutions of Science; Narratives of Exploration; Medieval
Precursors of Scientific Themata; Technology and (Dis)Embodiment; Virtual
REality, Cyberspace, and Theory; Regimes, Limits, and the Scope of
Scientific Theory; Foucault and the Genealogy/Archeology of Science; 
Congress and Science; Scientific Illiteracy; Gender, Science, and Pedagogy
at 2000; Cultural Studies of Science; Modern Art, Science, Visual
Representation; Visual Manipulation and the Impact of Science on the
Public; Early Modern Science and Women; Constructing the Feminine and
Early Modern Science; Visual Representation and the Power of Science; 
Science, Literature, and Religion; Internet Communities; Narratives of
Non-Human/Post-Human Others; Science and Technology: What's the
Difference?; the STS Movement and Philosophy of Science; the
Language/Terminology Barrier at SLS; Medical Narratives and Medical
Practice; the Politics of Medical Discourse; Feminist Histories of the
Future; Media Activism and Media Literacy; Twenty-First-Century Ludditism;
Women and New Media; Human Genome Project; Microcosm and Macrocosm: Large
and Small-Scale Structures of the Universe; Quantum Theory Legacy; Quantum
Thematics and SLS; Master Tropes and Science; Clone Wars; Science/SciFi
Literacy and TV Minds: the X Files Effect. 

SLS MEMBERSHIP: All participants in the 1998 conference must be members of
the Society for Literature and Science for 1998-99. For renewal or new
membership, please call The Johns Hopkins University Press, Journals
Publishing Division, 2715 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-4319
(phone: 1-800-548-1784). For further information, contact the Society's
Executive Director, Carol Colatrella at Georgia Institute of Technology
(carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu). 

Hope to hear from you soon!

Jim Paxson, 1998 SLS Program Co-Chair
Associate Professor
Associate Editor, EXEMPLARIA: A Journal of Theory in Medeival and
Renaissance Studies
Department of English
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7310

phone: 352-392-6650 x244
fax: 352-392-0660
e-mail: iacobus@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu

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