20th Annual Conference
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
EVOLUTION:
BIOLOGICAL, CULTURAL, AND COSMIC
New York, NY, November 9-12, 2006
Plenary Speaker: Lynn Margulis
Keynote Panel: Dorion Sagan and Eric Schneider
Special Presentation: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Call for Papers / Presentations
We are particularly interested in proposals related to the conference
themes: evolutionary ideas in and among the natural and social
sciences, technology, media, literature, art, the humanities, cultural
studies, and critical theory. Proposals on other topics in literature,
science, and art are also welcome. We encourage innovative proposals
for papers, panels, round-table discussions, and any non-traditional
formats. Panels are usually composed of 3-4 speakers. All sessions are
90 minutes long and should provide up to 30 minutes discussion.
Proposals involving speakers and/or respondents that transcend
disciplinary boundaries are particularly welcome. Deadline for
submissions is April 15, 2006.
NEW OPEN-FORUM SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
(If you do not wish to submit your abstract to the open forum, please
write to nyc.slsa2006@gmail.com)
We are trying something different with the submission process this
year. Participants are urged to submit their paper/panel abstracts to
the SLSA listserve, and all listserve subscribers are invited to
respond to the abstracts with comments and questions. Individual
submitters are encouraged to use the listserve to self-organize into
coherent panels. If you do form connections and would like to be placed
together in a panel, please let the program chair know by the
submission deadline. We hope that this new procedure will stimulate
dialogue among participants before the conference begins so that the
overall experience of SLSA 2006 will be richer and more useful for
everyone involved.
For individual papers as well as for panel and other proposals, please
submit abstracts of no more than 200 words per speaker, in plain text
(no attachments) pasted into an e-mail message to LITSCI-L@duke.edu with "SUB 06"
followed by the title of the panel or talk in the subject line. In
addition, please offer up to 5 keywords to classify the paper or
session: e.g. "science fiction, technology, biology, theory, visual
art, ecocriticism, Whitehead, Renaissance, media, cinema, Gaia,
rhetoric, poetics, semiotics," and etc.. For each speaker, provide an
e-mail address and each speaker's institutional affiliation, academic
department, or professional status (e.g. Independent Scholar) or
profession (e.g. Technologist, Novelist) whichever is applicable. The
appearance of your submission on the listserve will be the
acknowledgement of its receipt by the program committee.
PLEASE NOTE: You must be subscribed to the SLSA listserve before you
submit your abstract. To subscribe to the list, send the following
command in the body of an e-mail message to majordomo@duke.edu:
subscribe LITSCI-L
To subscribe to the digest format, send the following command in the
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For technical assistance, or if you do not wish to submit your abstract
to the open forum, please write to nyc.slsa2006@gmail.com