[Badgirlz-list] CFP: Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberpunk, an…

> 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@???>
>
> and
>
> Rob Fisher, Inter-Disciplinary.net
> <rf@???>
>
> 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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