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1. SLSA newsletter: Decodings, spring-summer 2006 - "Carol Colatrella" 


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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:33:04 +0000
From: "Carol Colatrella" 
Subject: SLSA newsletter: Decodings, spring-summer 2006

DECODINGS
Newsletter of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
volume 15, number 1

CONTENTS:
SLSA 2006, NEW YORK
TRAVEL AWARDS AND ESSAY PRIZES
LOOKING AHEAD TO SLSA 2007 IN MAINE
REPORT FROM SLSA IN AMSTERDAM
SLSA 2008, BERLIN
NEW DIRECTIONS FOR SUBSCRIBING TO LIT-SCI LISTSERV


SLSA 2006, NEW YORK

Like the city itself, the 20th annual SLSA conference in New York City 
promises to be wide-ranging, fast paced, extraordinarily intense, and
fun. 
This year's conference will be held in conjunction with the first
annual New York Science-Art Festival. So more scientists than usual will
be 
participating, as well as increasing numbers of artists. General
interest in 
our meeting is strong: we've already sold a number
of daily tickets.

You will feel that you are part of the city. We won't be spending all
our 
time inside generic hotel meeting rooms. There will be three stream
centers 
within a leisurely stroll each other in the SoHo/Greenwich village area,
two 
of the best walking neighborhoods in NYC.  For those who may not be up
for 
so much walking, we will have a shuttle van making the loop on Friday
and 
Saturday.

To our current line-up of speakers, including Lynn Margulis, Dorion
Sagan, 
Eric Schneider, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ann Druyan, we've added a
featured 
panel, "Sm(ART): Art and Design that Learns from Nature," organized by
Ellen 
Levy and featuring noted museum curators with Manuel deLanda as
respondent. 
There will also be many interesting art-science events throughout the
city 
that week, including Artbots: The Robot Talent Show and the Theatre of 
Science (more information, including a preliminary program, is available
on 
the conference Web site: http://www.dactyl.org/SLSA.htm). So you may
want to 
plan to spend a couple of extra days in the city in order to get
everything 
in.

Check the Dactyl website for registration, hotel, and program
information. 
Conference registration is open, by mail or online. We recommend that
you 
make your hotel reservations as soon as possible to get the best rates. 

When making flight arrangements, remember that the closest airports are 
LaGuardia and Newark, NJ. A taxi from LaGuardia Airport will cost 
approximately $25-30. From JFK Airport it will be a flat rate of $35
plus 
tolls and tip. From Newark Airport, a flat rate of $45-50 plus tolls and

tip. The Supershuttle is the best bet $13-$35 see www.supershuttle.com
or 
call 1-212-Blue Van. We look forward to seeing everyone in November.

All presenters must be 2006 members of SLSA. Information about the
society 
and about joining or renewing, call Johns Hopkins University Press at 
800-548-1784. To join or renew online, see
https://www.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/associations/sls_membership.cgi.

Bruce Clarke and Victoria Alexander are in charge of the program and
local 
arrangements for SLSA2006 and may be contacted about the conference at 
nyc.slsa2006@gmail.com.

TRAVEL AWARDS

SLSA provides a limited number of travel awards for underfunded
individuals 
attending the annual conference. Members of SLSA who participate in the 
annual conference may apply for travel subventions. An applicant should 
email name, title of SLSA presentation, any information about funding
for 
the conference, and an indication of how long one has been a member to
Carol 
Colatrella at carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu by September 1. SLSA
officers 
will review the applications and approve funds for one to three
individuals. 
Each person awarded funds will be presented with a check at the
conference.

ESSAY PRIZES
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.
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, Science, and the Arts. 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, via electronic mail to hayles@humnet.ucla.edu. 
Please send a copy of your formatted essay as a PDF or Word file, or
send a 
pointer to a URL where the essay is posted.
Schachterle Essay Prize
Lance Schachterle, founding president of the society, 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 SLSA Executive

Director, Carol Colatrella, LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology via 
electronic mail to carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu. Please send a copy
of 
your formatted essay as a PDF or Word file, or send a pointer to a URL
where 
the essay is posted.
LOOKING AHEAD TO SLSA 2007 IN MAINE

SLSA 2007 will be held November 1-4, 2007, in Portland, Maine. The 
conference topic will be ?�Code.?�
Deadline for paper or panel submissions: March 1, 2007
Website: http://www.slsa07.com/ (will be active by September, 2006)
Program Organizer: Aden Evans (aden@dartmouth.edu)
Site Organizers: Arielle Saiber (asaiber@bowdoin.edu) and Susan McHugh 
(smchugh@une.edu)

REPORT ON CLOSE ENCOUNTERS IN AMSTERDAM, 4th European SLSA Meeting
Manuela Rossini (Program Chair, Amsterdam SLSA 2006)

The 4th European meeting of the SLSA took place in Amsterdam, 13-16
June, 
2006, hosted by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and attended
by 
over 300 persons from all over the world. It included staging an
encounter 
between Dame Gillian Beer and Evelyn Fox Keller, a reading by Joseph 
McElroy, and a joint lecture by Andrew Carnie and Richard Wingate. The 
conference was built around 11 thematic streams accommodating
approximately 
275 papers in 9 parallel sessions taking place over three days. The
Dutch 
theatre group Adhoc opened the conference at the Royal Academy of the
Arts 
and Sciences. The program also included two bio-multimedia performances
by 
Trace Reddell and Timothy Weaver and Clementine Cummer and Natasha
Myers, a 
poetry reading, as well a pre-conference talk by Cary Wolfe, and a 
post-conference reading by Ruth Ozeki. During the conference, decisive
steps 
were taken to advance SLSA-Europe and to launch a book series related to

this suborganisation with publishing house Rodopi. A PDF-file with the
full 
program booklet is archived on the SLSA/Litsci-L Resources Pages: 
http://www.law.duke.edu/sls.  A big thank you to everyone who
participated 
in making the Amsterdam meeting such a pleasant, stimulating and
memorable 
event.

DEVELOPING SLSA-EUROPE

Members present in Amsterdam agreed to formalize development of
SLSA-Europe. 
There is now a group working on implementing the proposal discussed at
the 
Amsterdam meeting. The proposal is now posted at the SLSA Hopkins site 
(http://slsa.press.jhu.edu), at the link to the European Conference.

SLSA-EUROPE 2008, BERLIN

The next European meeting will take place in Berlin in 2008, hosted by
the 
Zentrum f�?r Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL: 
http://www.zfl.gwz-berlin.de) in collaboration with a number of other 
institutes in this most attractive city. The ZfL will also be the home
of 
the planned SLSA-Europe. More information on both endeavours will be 
provided at the Annual Conference in New York.

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