[eccr] CFP: Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberpunk, and Science Fiction

>1st Global Conference
>
>Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberpunk, and Science Fiction
>11 to 13 August 2003
>Prague, Czech Republic
>
>Call for Papers
>
>Marking the launch of a new annual conference, research and
>publication series, this inter-disciplinary and
>multi-disciplinary project aims to explore what it is to be
>human and the nature of human community in cyberculture,
>cyberspace and science fiction. In particular, the project
>will explore the possibilities offered by these contexts for
>creative thinking about persons and the challenges posed to
>the nature and future of national, international, and global
>communities.
>
>Papers, short papers, and workshops are invited on issues
>related to any of the following themes:
>
>* the relationship between cyberculture, cyberspace and
>science fiction
>
>* science fiction and cyberpunk as a medium for exploring
>the nature of persons
>
>* humans and cyborgs; the synergy of humans and technology;
>changing views of the body
>
>* human and post-human politics; cyborg citizenship and
>rights; influence of political technologies
>
>* bodies in cyberculture; from apes to androids - electronic
>evolution; biotechnical advances and the impact of life,
>death, and social existence; the impact on individuality
>
>* gender and cyberspace: new feminisms, new masculinities
>
>* electronic persons, community and identity; cyberspace,
>cybercommunities, virtual worlds, and home worlds
>
>* nature, enhancing nature, and artificial intelligence;
>artificial life, life and information systems, networked
>living
>
>* Cyberpolitics, cyberdemocracy, cyberterror; old conflicts,
>new spaces: elections, protest and war in cyberspace;
>nationality and nationalism in cyberculture; the state and
>cyberspace: repression vs. resistance
>
>* cybercultures: the transnational and the local
>
>* boundaries, frontiers and taboos in cyberculture
>
>* cyberculture and orientalism
>
>* religion and spirituality in cyberculture, science fiction
>and cyberpunk
>
>* old messages, new medium: cyberspace and mass
>communication
>
>* cyberculture, cyberpunk and the near future: utopias vs.
>dystopias
>
>* technology vs. the natural? cyberculture and the green
>movement
>
>Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word
>abstracts should be submitted to the Joint Organising Chairs
>by Friday 9th May 2003. Full draft papers should be
>submitted by Friday 11th July 2003. Send proposals to:
>
>Christopher Macallister, University of Kent at Canterbury
><(cjm23 /at/ ukc.ac.uk)>
>
>and
>
>Rob Fisher, Inter-Disciplinary.net
><(rf /at/ inter-disciplinary.net)>
>
>Papers should be sent as an email attachment in Word,
>WordPerfect or RTF; abstracts can also be submitted in the
>body of the email text rather than as an attachment.
>
>All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will
>be published in an ISBN e-Book. Selected papers will be
>developed and published in a themed hard copy book(s).
>
>Further details and information about the Cyberworlds,
>Virtual Reality series of projects can be found at
>
>http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/cwvr.htm
>
>For specific information about the conference, please go to:
>
>http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/vhccsf03cfp.htm
>
>-end-

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Carpentier Nico (Phd)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University Brussels
Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication (SMIT)
Centre for Media Sociology (CeMeSO)
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