From: mwolf-m-AT-bgnet.bgsu.edu
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:06:45 -0500
Subject: "Technoscience, Material Culture, and Everyday Life"


Hong Kong 2003 Conference:
Technoscience, Material Culture, and Everyday Life
March 27 - March 29, 2003
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Call For Papers

This conference will explore the growing interconnectedness of
technoscience, culture, and everyday life in the twenty-first-
century global village. With the previously separated categories of
science and technology inexorably merging in postmodern society,
technoscience is reshaping not only our daily lives, but also the
ways that we define who we are. As the new mechanisms of
technoscience change our cultural forms and practices, and as the
diverse implications of new means of storing and communicating
information affect how we view our communities, our identities, and
our bodies, cultural critics need to examine how all these factors
are altering our conditions of perception and the prevailing
structure of cultural experience.

One area of investigation might be the literature and scholarship
of science fiction, considered as exemplary texts illustrating what
goes on and what will happen in our cultural imaginary of complete
human-machine interfaces, although other genres, media, and forms
of societal expression can also provide insights. Issues such as
feeling, embodiedness, social space, expenses, language, agency,
and technological artifacts could be placed within a feedback loop
of hythenation and splicing, or a projection and reciprocation
dialectic. Papers which address these issues as well as the ways
that technoscience can have a transformative effect on global
societies -- with particular attention to the kaleidoscopically
diverse cultures of Hong Kong and the Asian-Pacific region -- would
be especially welcome.

Papers for the conference might focus on any of the following
areas: science fiction and technoscience culture; technology and
the media, including science fiction, action, and martial-arts
films, the impact of digital special effects, and computer games;
cyberfeminism, gender and technoscience, virtual gender, embodiment
as intercorporeality, and feminist science studies; bioltechnology,
genetic engineering, and material cultures; cybercultures, youth
identities and communities in an online world, cyberdemocracy,
cities and civic networks, virtualities, and cyberspace textuality;
machine culture, human-machine interface, machine-human symbiosis,
and posthumanism; and technoscience, cultural theory, and
philosophy.

This conference is jointly sponsored by the Chinese University of
Hong Kong and the University of California, Riverside, and will be
held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on March 27 through
March 29, 2003. Paper proposals must be received by January 10,
2003, and may be mailed or e-mailed to either of the addresses
below. Expedited letters of acceptance for applications for
financial support can be provided upon request.

Wong Kin Yuen, Coordinator
Chairman and Division Head
Department of Modern Languages
    and Intercultural Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories
Hong Kong
CHINA
b114766-AT-mailserv.cuhk.edu.hk

Gary Westfahl, Coordinator
The Learning Center
University of California
Riverside, California 91711
UNITED STATES
gary.westfahl-AT-ucr.edu

Amy Chan, Coordinator
Department of Modern Languages
    and Intercultural Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories
Hong Kong
CHINA
amykschan-AT-cuhk.edu.hk




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