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by Richard House 
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Date: 16 Feb 2002 15:22:16 -0800
From: Richard House 
Subject: CFP: Humanities and Technology Association
Humanities and Technology Association Conference
October 24-26, 2002
Humanities and Social Sciences
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Terre Haute, Indiana
Call for Papers
THE HUMANITIES AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION is an interdisciplinary
scholarly society that explores interactions of technology, science,
the
humanities, and the social sciences. We welcome papers dealing with all
aspects of these interactions and wish to draw in as broad a range of
disciplines and perspectives as possible. For the 2002 conference, we
are particularly interested in receiving proposals for papers that deal
with the general theme of
Permeable Boundaries:
Technology and the Natural World
We invite individual papers and session proposals addressing the
conference theme from all possible disciplinary angles, such as its
representation in literature, the visual arts, political essays, or
scientific and philosophical writings.
In addition to the conference theme, papers on all other aspects of the
interaction of technology, science and the humanities are welcome.
Today, the boundaries between nature and technology have blurred to
such
an extent that it is difficult to say where one ends and the other
begins. This crossing of traditional boundaries brings with it a host
of
theoretical, technical, ethical, and political concerns:
¬? Are we, along with our natural habitat, becoming part of
technology?
¬? Does technology have to be managed? By whom?
¬? How do we distinguish between nature and artifice?  Is nature
becoming
more artificial, and technology more natural?
¬? How do the arts represent the intersection between technology
and
nature?
¬? What lies in the future for the figure of the cyborg and for the
interface between humans and technology?
¬? How does technology affect the ecologies of place and the
environment?
¬? How do environmentalists and engineers address them?
Keynote speakers:
Steven Vogel is James B. Duke Professor of Zoology at Duke University.
He has published 9 books and numerous articles, among them Vital
Circuits: On the Pumps, Pipes, and Workings of Circulatory Systems
(1992) and Cats?? Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Works of Nature and
People (1998). His work in biomechanics focuses on the way in which
nature influences technology design.
Science fiction writer Maureen McHugh is the author of China Mountain
Zhang, winner of the Tiptree Award, the LOCUS best first novel award,
and the Lambda. Her current novel Nekropolis is a New York Times
Notable
Book for 2001. Her short stories have appeared in The Year??s Best
Science Fiction.
For further details, please go (after 20 February 2002) to
www.rose-hulman.edu/hta/
Submit proposal (200 words) electronically by April 1, 2002 to:
Andreas Michel, Conference Co-chair
andreas.michel@rose-hulman.edu
Or write to
Andreas Michel
HTA Conference Co-Chair
Humanities and Social Sciences
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
5500 Wabash Ave
Terre Haute, IN 47803
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Richard A. House, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
richard.house@rose-hulman.edu