*/UPDATED CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND EXTENDED DEADLINE/**:
_DECEMBER 13, 2016!
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*WHAT IS LIFE? *
*LIFEWORKS • LIFESTYLES • LIFEWORLDS ***
*University of Oregon in Portland • April 6–8, 2017*
*/whatis.uoregon.edu/* <http://whatis.uoregon.edu/>
The seventh annual “/What is...? /” conference-experience will engage
communication, media, and nature by examining _everyday life_ — our
lifeworks and lifestyles — emphasizing the lifeworlds (environments)
we live in. It will investigate how communication/media constitute and
permeate all avenues and forms of life — from scale, pace, and pattern
to the public, private, and organic. By building bridges through
multidisciplinary networks, the event emphasizes how communication is
instrumental in and for living systems. What is life and how is life
mediated?
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/What is Life? /(2017) builds on last year’s conference, /What is
Media? /(2016), expanding a transdisciplinary notion of medium/media
with special attention to its material, historical, and ecological
ramifications. It marks the second collaboration with scholars from
the natural sciences, life sciences, and the arts.
Featured plenaries will include:
• Douglas Rushkoff, Communication and Economics (/Generation Like/,
FRONTLINE)
• Jussi Parikka, Media Archaeology and Aesthetics (/A Geology of Media/)
• Amnon Buchbinder, Journalism and Science (/Biology of Story/)
• Salma Monani, Environmental Studies (/Ecomedia/)
• Brendan Bohannan, Biology and Ecology
• Toby Miller, Creative Industries and Environmental Studies
(/Greening The Media/)
• Gabriela Martínez, Cinema/Media Studies and Latin American Studies
• Mark Johnson, Cognitive Science and Philosophy (/Metaphors We Live By/)
• Brook Muller, Architecture and Design (/Ecology and the
Architectural Imagination/)
Keynote address by Fritjof Capra, Complexity and System Sciences
(/Systems View of Life/)
Papers/presentations already accepted address: the value of human
life, algorithms and e-waste, biodiversity, science
journalism/communication, sustainable design and apps, Chinese rural
experience, microbial ecology, women and work, STS and automation,
responsibility and integrity*.*/What is Life?/ invites scholars,
government and community officials, industry professionals, alumni and
students, as well as scientists, artists, filmmakers, grassroots
community organizations, and the public to collaborate. We welcome
submissions for paper presentations and panels, roundtables, and art
installations. A wide range of topics and themes can be found under
the Call for Proposals at the conference website (whatis.uoregon.edu
<http://whatis.uoregon.edu/>).
*Send 100-150 word abstracts/proposals by _December 13, 2016_ to:*
Janet Wasko • (jwasko /at/ uoregon.edu) <mailto:(jwasko /at/ uoregon.edu)>
*Conference Organizers:* Janet Wasko and Jeremy Swartz (University of
Oregon)
University of Oregon • Eugene, Oregon 97405-1275
