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litsci-l-digest       Tuesday, February 21 2006       Volume 01 : Number
140



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     Science and the Public Postgrad Conference - CFP reminder
     SUB 06-Evolution in Literary Interpretation

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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:33:26 +0000
From: "alice bell" 
Subject: Science and the Public Postgrad Conference - CFP reminder

 * Apologies for any cross posting - please circulate to others who
might b=
e
interested *

*Call For Papers - Science & the Public: interdisciplinary approaches -
Reminder of deadline 1st March
*
*Inaugural Science Communication Postgraduate Conference
Science and the Public: interdisciplinary approaches
Saturday May 20th 2006, Imperial College, London*

This day-long postgraduate conference has been organised by Imperial
Colleg=
e
and the London PUS Seminar Group to help bring together researchers from
th=
e
disparate strands of academia that consider science as it exists and
influences public life.

We hope to attract delegates from a wide variety of disciplines;
bringing
together researchers from science and technology studies, science
communication, history, cultural studies, psychology, anthropology,
literar=
y
criticism, education, museum studies, sociology, media studies, policy
studies, geography and others.

Abstracts for submission of a 20-minute paper around the topic of
science
and the public are welcomed from research postgraduate students in any
field. *Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and emailed to
scienceandpublic@googlemail.com by 1st March 2006.* Enquires to
alice.bell@imperial.ac.uk or sarah.davies@imperial.ac.uk.

The conference fee is =A310 and there may be travel grants available to
tho=
se
giving papers (details will follow).

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:50:07 -0500
From: Astrid Vicas 
Subject: SUB 06-Evolution in Literary Interpretation

Panel Proposal for the 20th Annual Conference of the Society for 
Literature, Science, and the Arts: EVOLUTION: BIOLOGICAL, CULTURAL, AND 
COSMIC
New York N.Y, November 9-12, 2006

Title of Proposed Panel: Evolution in Literary Interpretation

It can be argued that a certain consensus around the conditions 
required for a process to qualify as evolutionary has by now arisen. A 
general, negative condition for any evolutionary process is that purely 
time-reversible patterns are excluded. (E. Laszlo)
Positive conditions intended to capture minimal requirements for 
Darwinian evolutionary processes include the conditions that 1) there 
must be identifiable patterns, 2) the patterns must be copiable, 3) 
variant patterns are sometimes produced by chance, 4) patterns and 
their variants must compete in occupying a limited workspace, 5) the 
competition is biased by a multifaceted environment, and 6) new variant 
patterns preferentially occur around the more successful of the current 
patterns. (W.H. Calvin)

The purpose of this panel is to examine whether and to what extent 
these proposed conditions are adequate or fruitful in examining changes 
and trends in literary interpretation.

Scholars from a wide variety of perspectives including, but not limited 
to, memetics, hermeneutics, analytical philosophy, or postmodern 
approaches are invited to share their insights into conditions for 
identifying evolutionary processes in literary interpretation.

Please send responses in the form of abstracts of papers or queries to 
LITSCI-L@duke.edu or directly to Astrid Vicas, Associate Professor of 
Philosophy, Saint Leo University at astrid.vicas@saintleo.edu or 
avicas@earthlink.net.

Keywords:
Evolution
Literature
Interpretation
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