Technotopias:
Texts, Identities, and Technological Cultures

10 to 12 July 2002, Glasgow, United Kingdom

An Interdisciplinary Conference organized by the
Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde

GUEST SPEAKERS: Wendy Chun, Harry Collins, Judith Halberstam, Colin MacCabe, Bryan Turner.

The University of Strathclyde is a world leader in science and engineering yet, like many similar institutions, it maintains a strong commitment to the humanities. In societies that seem to place increasing emphasis on the application of technology and scientific knowledge this kind of commitment is sometimes seen as irrelevant. For humanities departments this situation raises new questions of identity, within both university faculties and cultural discourse itself. In the light of this situation Technotopias aims to investigate the complex historical and contemporary interplay between the humanities and technology. Firstly, Technotopias aims to reflect upon the place of the arts within modern academia; secondly, to investigate the complex historical and contemporary interplay between the humanities and technology; and finally, to address the impact of these relationships upon the formation of physical and cultural identities.

To realise the interdisciplinary nature of this conference we invite papers from all fields of literary and cultural criticism, as well as the scientific and technological disciplines, at both post-doctoral and post-graduate levels.

Abstracts of 200 words for a 20 - 30 minute paper due by 31 December 2001 to: technotopias@strath.ac.uk

Technotopias Organising Committee
Department of English Studies
University of Strathclyde
Livingstone Tower
26 Richmond Street
Glasgow G1 1XH UK

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