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litsci-l-digest Wednesday, February 5 2003 Volume 01 : Number
028
In this issue:
sls 2003 call for papers in plain text format
e-copy of DECODINGS, spring 2003, to be mailed next week
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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:06:54 -0600
From: Bruce Clarke
Subject: sls 2003 call for papers in plain text format
SLS 2003
The 17th annual conference of the Society for Literature and Science
will be held at the Marriott at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on October
23-26, 2003. The conference theme is Rethinking Space and Time Across
Science, Literature, and the Arts.
Timothy Ferris, "the best science writer of his generation" (Joel
Achenbach, The Washington Post) will give the Friday evening plenary
address. His ten books include the bestsellers The Whole Shebang: A
State-of-the-Universe(s) Report and Coming of Age in the Milky Way,
named by The New York Times as two of the leading books published in the
twentieth century. He has received the American Institute of Physics
prize, the American Association for the Advancement of Science prize,
and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Ferris's articles and essays have appeared
in Forbes, Harper's, Life, National Geographic, Natural History, Nature,
Scientific American, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Review
of Books, and The New York Times. He is currently emeritus professor of
journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
The conference will coincide with the major exhibition "Becoming Modern:
1890-1939," marking the opening of the expanded facilities of the Harry
Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC) at the University of Texas, and
the HRC will host a reception in the exhibition before Friday night's
plenary address.
Austin offers many attractions, including excellent restaurants and a
lively music scene as well as the strong manuscript and archival
collections of British, French, and American authors held by the HRC
(see ). The Marriott at the Capital will
offer a conference rate of $124 for single, double, triple, and quad
rooms. Conference attendees should be able to extend that rate (on a
space-available basis) two days before and after the conference. Most
major airlines service Austin. For more travel information, see the
City of Austin Web site under "Fast Facts." For
more on Austin itself, see the Convention & Visitors Bureau Web site
.
Although the conference will put particular focus on the themes of space
and time, proposals are also welcome on all topics addressing the
interaction of literature, the arts, new media, or critical theory with
science and technology. We encourage potential participants to use the
SLS discussion list to circulate ideas for panels. To subscribe to the
list, go to .
Individuals may submit abstracts (150 words) for individual papers as
well as proposals for panels, usually composed of 3-4 speakers plus
discussion in a 1-1/2 hour session. We encourage innovative proposals
for papers, panels, round-table discussions, and any non-traditional
formats. Sessions involving speakers and/or respondents that transcend
disciplinary boundaries are particularly welcome. The deadline is March
31, 2003.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be e-mailed to both program chair
Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University , and
conference co-director Linda Dalrymple Henderson, UT/Austin
. The conference Web site will be on-line by
mid-February at .
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Bruce Clarke
bruce.clarke@ttu.edu
Director, Center for the Interaction of the Arts and Sciences
qcias@ttu.edu
Professor, Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
vox: 806 742-2500 x274
fax: 806 742-0989
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Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 15:10:41 +0000
From: "Carol Colatrella"
Subject: e-copy of DECODINGS, spring 2003, to be mailed next week
Decodings, Spring 2003 vol.12, no.1
SLS 2003, Austin
Conference Information & Call for Papers (EXTENDED)
The 17th annual conference of the Society for Literature and Science
will be
held at the Marriott at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on October 23-26,
2003. The conference theme is ?¨Rethinking Space and Time Across
Science,Literature, and the Arts.?Æ
Keynote Speaker: Timothy Ferris, ?¨the best science writer of his
generation?Æ(Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post) will give the Friday
evening plenaryaddress. His ten books include the bestsellers The Whole
Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report and Coming of Age in the
Milky
Way, named by the New York Times as two of the leading books published
in
the twentieth century. He has received the American Institute of
Physics
prize, the American Association for the Advancement of Science prize,
and a
Guggenheim Fellowship. Ferris??s articles and essays have appeared in
Forbes, Harper's, Life, National Geographic, Natural History, Nature,
Scientific American, The Nation, New Republic, The New York Review of
Books,
and The New York Times. He is currently emeritus professor of
journalism at
the University of California, Berkeley.
Exhibit: The conference will coincide with the major exhibition
"Becoming
Modern: 1890-1939," marking the opening of the expanded facilities of
the
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC) at the University of
Texas,
and the HRC will host a reception in the exhibition before Friday
night's
plenary address.
Hotel: Austin offers many attractions, including excellent restaurants
and a
lively music scene as well as the strong manuscript and archival
collections
of British, French, and American authors held by the HRC (see
). The Marriott at the Capital will offer a
conference rate of $124 for single, double, triple, and quad rooms.
Conference attendees should be able to extend that rate (on a
space-available basis) two days before and after the conference. Most
major
airlines service Austin. For more travel information, see the City of
Austin Web site under "Fast Facts." For more on
Austin itself, see the Convention & Visitors Bureau Web site
.
Call for Papers and Proposals: Although the conference will put
particular
focus on the themes of space and time, proposals are also welcome on all
topics addressing the interaction of literature, the arts, new media, or
critical theory with science and technology. We encourage potential
participants to use the SLS discussion list to circulate ideas for
panels.
To subscribe to the list, go to .
Individuals may submit abstracts (150 words) for individual papers as
well
as proposals for panels, usually composed of 3-4 speakers plus
discussion in
a 1-1/2 hour session. We encourage innovative proposals for papers,
panels,
round-table discussions, and any non-traditional formats. Sessions
involving speakers and/or respondents that transcend disciplinary
boundaries
are particularly welcome. The deadline has been extended to May 1,
2003.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be e-mailed to both program chair
Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University , and
conference co-director Linda Dalrymple Henderson, UT/Austin
. The conference Web site will be on-line by
mid-February at .
Travel Awards for SLS2003
SLS provides a limited number of travel awards for underfunded
individuals
attending the annual conference. Members of SLS who participate in the
annual conference may apply for travel subventions. An applicant should
email name, title of SLS presentation, any information about funding for
the
conference, and an indication of how long one has been a member to Carol
Colatrella at by September 1. SLS officers will review the applications
and
approve funds for one to three individuals. Each person awarded funds
will
be presented with a $200 check at the conference.
2003 Bruns Essay Prize
The Bruns Graduate Essay Prize, in honor of Edward F. Bruns, is awarded
annually to the best essay written by a graduate student member of the
Society for Literature and Science. Graduate students wishing to have
their
essays considered for the $250 prize should submit them by September 1
to N.
Katherine Hayles, Department of English, University of California, Los
Angeles, CA 90095-1530.
2003 Schachterle Essay Prize
Lance Schachterle, SLS founding president, has established an annual
prize
of $250 in honor of his parents to recognize the best new essay on
literature and science written in English by a nontenured scholar.
Eligible
authors wishing to submit essays (published or accepted for publication)
should send them prior to September 1 to the SLS Executive Director,
Carol
Colatrella, LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
30332-0165;
please label envelope "Schachterle Submission."
Note: SLS travel awards and essay prizes are presented during the
Business
Meeting of the annual fall conference. One may submit only one entry to
one
of the two essay prize competitions.
ALL PARTICIPANTS IN SLS2003 MUST BE SLS MEMBERS FOR THE
2003 MEMBERSHIP YEAR. CONTACT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
PRESS, JOURNALS DIVISION TO JOIN, RENEW, OR CHECK
MEMBERSHIP STATUS. SEE BACK PAGE OF THIS NEWSLETTER FOR
HOPKINS PRESS JOURNALS DIVISION CONTACT INFORMATION.
Configurations Schedule: Although the 2002 volumes of the journal
have experienced a delayed schedule, please be assured that all SLS
members for that year will receive them in due course. The journal's
editors anticipate catching up in 2003 and request your patience until
that
time. As always, submissions are welcome and should be directed to Hugh
Crawford, LCC, Georgia Tech, 686 Cherry St., Atlanta GA 30332-0165
(email:
hugh.crawford@lcc.gatech.edu). See guidelines for authors and other
information in the journal or on the Configurations site at Project
Muse(http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/con). Note that SLS members can
access
issues of Configurations online through the society's Hopkins URL at
http://sls.press.jhu.edu.
NOMINATIONS FOR MEMBER-AT-LARGE( for a two-year term
beginning 2003 to replace Bernice Hausman and Arkady Plotnitsky) should
be directed to the chair of the nominating committee, Hugh Crawford, at
hugh.crawford@lcc.gatech.edu.
ON RETENTION AND RECRUITMENT OF MEMBERS
by Arkady Plotnitsky, Member-at-large
Reprinted from Decodings, winter 2002
Although SLS is a healthy and prospering organization, retention and
recruitment unavoidably remain our important tasks, which continuously
demand new ideas and new ways of implementing and disseminating them,
as both SLS and the world around it, in the academy and beyond, change.
Decodings and the Executive Board invite opinions and suggestions
(general
and specific) from the SLS members. As an impetus, here are some among
the
ideas that have been discussed during the last meeting in Pasadena
(including at the Board meeting and the closing business meeting).
First, we
should more proactively expand some among the areas already present and
extending the reach of the organization to new areas, such as public
health
and disabilities studies; digitalization and its relations to art and
media;
neurosciences; and mathematics. Second, while we want to maintain the
distinct character of SLS, vis-a-vis related organizations, we want to
interact with such organizations and, in particular, make their members
more
aware of the work we do, especially of our conferences, here and in
Europe,
and Configurations. It was suggested, in this context and in general,
that
we
should disseminate, digitally and otherwise, the Configurations logo
within
and beyond SLS. Third, we should continue to work on expanding the
presence
and role of scientists in SLS. Inviting them more often as plenary
speakers,
as we have done this year and as we plan to do in Austin, is one way to
pursue this task. We also want to attract a broader participation of
faculty
and graduate students from major universities, such as Ivy league
schools,
which are at present underrepresented in SLS. Our presence at the MLA
helps
this task already, since it has attracted a number of major scholars,
not
previously the SLS members, as speakers. Finally, by way of a
concrete suggestion, we might consider designing a nice poster
advertising
SLS 2003/Austin (which may also contain the Configurations logo). The
poster
could be mailed to all participants and to departments in the humanities
and
science in the region to attract regional interests, as well as
distributed
at the conference itself so it can be posted both before and after
conference in schools across the country and in Europe. We hope that
these
ideas can stimulate further thinking and discussion concerning retention
and
recruitment. Please mail/email your ideas to
Arkady Plotnitsky, Professor of English and Director, Theory and
Cultural
Studies Program
Department of English
Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907
email: APlotnit@sla.purdue.edu
NOTICE
ENTERTAINING SCIENCE
a series organized by poet
Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
at the Cornelia Street Cafe
(off Bleeker Street in NYC)
the first Sunday night of each month,
at 6 PM, until 8. Cover charge: $10.
Remarkable entertainment with a science base.
Visit the website at www.corneliastreetcafe.com
for more information
POEM: vi. Chemistry
In the plants,
in the wood,
even in these diamonds
that seem so still,
I knew at fourteen
there was motion--
atoms chasing
each other round, and
binding, holding
fast like girls swinging
in gym, playing statues,
before letting go.
So, later, love,
the stillness and the motion,
the currents, and the blush,
the rush of heat,
softening that brought pronged push
and thrust, in us,
in everything that had to burst
to restore the calm,
the spinning dance.
in all the universe.
Elizabeth Socolow, Princeton, NJ, after reading Oliver Sacks, Uncle
Tungsten An Evensong
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