[ecrea] CfP VIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture "Cyber+Cipher+Culture"

*VIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture*____

*Cyber+Cipher+Culture*____

*Lisbon, July 2-7, 2018*

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*DEADLINE EXTENSION: FEBRUARY 28*

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The Summer School for the Study of Culture, the yearly seminar for 
doctoral students in the critical humanities and cultural analysis, will 
in 2018 inspect the contentious realm of cyber, as it performs the fluid 
and the solid, the evanescence of the cloud and the heavy materiality of 
technology, the fear of war and the brave world of global information, 
surveillance and security, the right of inspection and the obfuscation 
of knowledge. Under the conditions of modernity 4.0, the prefix cyber 
seems to have become the point of entry for a new narrative of 
experience. One that draws on a technological unconscious to reboot 
modes of conviviality, modes of knowledge production, the organization 
of society, the very definition of democracy, the idea of the human. 
Coined by mathematician Norbert Wiener, the term cybernetics referred to 
the science of autonomous machines, that could both adapt their behavior 
and learn. Cybernetics developed out of a system structured upon coding 
models. The infrastructure of the new autonomous machines was helpless 
without the incision, the graphing of the software that would 
effectively bring them to life.____

The Summer School brings together cyber with cipher in order to discuss 
the manifold incisions that write the machine into life and the 
strategies that users need to read them back. As Jacques Derrida 
famously claimed, writing always connotes an element of fracture, of 
removal from ‘the real’ context. Writing bears the signature of a 
physical absence – of the subject and of the context – and articulates a 
moment of rupture, enacted as a counter act or as a mode of dissent 
under the very act of writing. As our social and cultural experience is 
being increasingly shaped, written over and redone by the cyber world, 
it is also here in the utopian drive for perfectioning the human that 
the hope of resistance before the oblique powers of modernity may lie.____

Amongst other theme-related presentations, papers are welcome on the 
following topics:____

  * Cyberculture and creativity;____
  * Cyber mediation and the future of cultural media;____
  * Citizenship, the public space and the right to privacy;____
  * Cyberactivism;____
  * Writing cybernetics: Net literature and the literary network;____
  * The transformation of the face of war;____
  * Surveillance and critique;____
  * Cyberterrorism/cybersecurity and the artistic conviviality;____
  * Critical thinking in the age of drones;____
  * Representing cyber.____

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*Speakers*____

__§__Mandy Merck (Royal Holloway College)____

__§__Carla Ganito (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)____

__§__Frederik Tygstrup (University of Copenhagen)____

__§__Marie-Laure Ryan (independent scholar)____

__§__Lev Manovich (City University of New York)____

__§__Luís Gustavo Martins (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)____

__§__Gustavo Cardoso (ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)____

__§__Manuel Portela (Universidade de Coimbra)____


The Summer School will take place at several cultural institutions in 
Lisbon and will gather outstanding doctoral students and post-doctoral 
researchers from around the world. In the morning there will be lectures 
and master classes by invited keynote speakers. In the afternoon there 
will be paper presentations by doctoral students.____

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*Paper proposals*
Proposals should be sent to (lxsummerschool /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(lxsummerschool /at/ gmail.com)> no later than *February 28, 2018* and 
include paper title, abstract in English (max. 200 words), name, e-mail 
address, institutional affiliation and a brief bio (max. 100 words) 
mentioning ongoing research.
Applicants will be informed of the result of their submissions by *March 
15, 2018*.____

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*Rules for presentation*
The organizing committee shall place presenters in small groups 
according to the research focus of their papers. They are advised to 
stay in these groups for the duration of the Summer School, so a 
structured exchange of ideas may be developed to its full potential.____

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*Full papers submission*
Presenters are required to send in full papers by May 30, 2018.
The papers will then be circulated amongst the members of each research 
group and in the slot allotted to each participant (30’), only 10’ may 
be used for a brief summary of the research piece. The Summer School is 
a place of networked exchange of ideas and organizers wish to have as 
much time as possible for a structured discussion between participants. 
Ideally, in each slot, 10’ will be used for presentation, and 20’ for 
discussion.____

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*Registration fees*
Participants with paper – 265€ for the entire week (includes lectures, 
master classes, doctoral sessions, lunches and closing dinner)
Participants without paper – 55€ per session/day | 180€ for the entire 
week____

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*Fee waivers*
For The Lisbon Consortium students, there is no registration fee.
For students from Universities affiliated with the European Summer 
School in Cultural Studies and members of the Excellence Network in 
Cultural Studies the registration fee is 50€.____


For more information, visit https://lisbonconsortium.com/

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