CALL FOR PAPERS
36TH ANNUAL HUMANITIES AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
St. Thomas University, Miami Gardens, Florida
06 – 08 November 2014
Deadline: August 1, 2014
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We are happy to announce the call for papers for the 36th annual Humanities and Technology Association Conference. The main track for this year’s conference will be Technology and Politics. Papers are particularly welcome that address the democratization of science and technology; political ecology and digital activism; hyperobjectivities and technological mediations; biopolitics, including macro- and micro-biopolitics; technology of subjectivities, including the techno-politics of sexuality; surveillance technologies; digital policing and technologies of warfare (cyber, drone, etc.); gene technology and human engineering; GMOs, food security, and food sovereignty; the politics and polities of transhumanism and posthumanism; postmodern techno-science.
To allow for as broad of a range of scholars as possible, however, papers and panel suggestions that examine other issues in science and technology will also be arranged according to the following tracks:
TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL LIFE: topics will deal with questions such as: does technology enable new/destroy old forms of social life; advance/hinder gender equality; raise/diminish standards of living and economic well-being; suggest/force human adaptations to technological environments?… read more. “Call: 36th Annual Humanities and Technology Conference”