Dear ATEG Subscribers,
 
Here is an announcement for a conference that Miami U is hosting in early
June.  Although the topic of science and technology studies in the
humanities has little to do with grammar, perhaps it might interest a few
of you.  Perhaps you could find a way to fit grammar into the discussion?
 There's still time to submit an proposal for a paper.
 
Jim Dubinsky
Miami U, Hamilton
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The Miami University Department of English is happy to announce a summer
institute on the topic of science and technology studies in the
humanities
titled, "Reconfiguring Disciplinarity: Social Studies of Science and
Technology in a Reactionary Age."
 
 The Institute will be held from June 5-7, 1997 and will feature four
keynote
speakers: Anne Balsamo, Stephen Doheny-Farina, Sandra Harding, and
Langdon
Winner.
 
We also are calling for a few select papers to be delivered at the
conference.
For those papers chosen, the registration fee will be waived (see below).
 
The Institute is preceded by an optional three-week seminar for graduate
students in which participants will interrogate the issues outlined
above; for
more information on the seminar, contact Bob Johnson at:
([log in to unmask]), or call 513-529-7340.
 
For information on enrolling for graduate credit, visit the Miami
University
Continuing Education website at: http://www.muohio.edu/continuing
education/
 
NOTE: For graduate students in the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of
Colleges
and Universities, the seminar may possibly be taken through your school's
tuition structure. Please check with your graduate office or department.
 
The text of the conference information follows:
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Summer Institute
Miami University of Ohio
June 5 - 7, 1997
 
"Reconfiguring Disciplinarity:
Social Studies of Science and Technology in a Reactionary Age"
 
Key Speakers:
SANDRA HARDING
ANNE BALSAMO
LANGDON WINNER
STEPHEN DOHENY-FARINA
 
The three-day summer institute provides a space where various
interdisciplinary voices can engage in a dialogue concerning the cultural
impact of science and technology. These discussions are particularly
important
in an age when political and academic conservatism militates against the
breaching of not only disciplinary boundaries, but boundaries of race,
culture, nation, gender, and sexuality.
 
Participants will examine the impact of interdisciplinary discussions in
science and technology studies, including analyses of the intersection of
feminism and multiculturalism, the transformation of scholarly practices
across academic disciplines, the relationship between academic and
nonacademic
attitudes toward science and technology studies; and the role of academic
technology and science studies in a global public sphere.
 
REGISTRATION & HOUSING
 
Housing for participants is available in air conditioned dormitory rooms
for
$16.50/double or $22.00 single per night. Linens and towels are provided.
To
reserve a room, call Miami Conference Services at 513-529-4949. Hotel
rooms
are also available for $75 per night (double) through the Miami Marcum
Conference Center and Inn. To reserve a room, call 513-529-6911.
 
To register for the three-day institute, send the information below along
with
$40.00 ($20.00 for graduate students and those who are underemployed).
Registration covers conference participation, coffee and refreshments
during
breaks, a buffet reception (with cash bar) on Thursday night, and a wine
&
dessert end-of-conference fling. Although you may register at the
conference,
we request that you register by May 9.
 
If you would like to preregister, please send the fee with the following
information:
 
Name_____________________________
Affiliation__________________________
Address____________________________
Phone_____________________________
email______________________________
amount enclosed_____________________
 
send to:
 
Robert R. Johnson
Summer Institute
Department of English
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 54056
 
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
 
Thursday, June 5, 1997
8:00 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.
Sandra Harding, Postcolonialism and Feminism: Science and Technology
Issues
9:30 p.m. Reception
Friday, June 6, 1997
9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Stephen Doheny-Farina,
Corporatism and the Globalized Individual
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Focus papers: Reconfiguring Disciplinarity
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Anne Balsamo, World Wide White Wash: The Meaning of Webcasting as a new
Media
Genre
3:30- 5:00 p.m. small group discussion
Saturday, June 7, 1997
10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Langdon Winner, Technology is Driving the Future, But Who's Steering? --
Determinism and Voluntarism in Techno-political Debates
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Focus papers:
Science Wars
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Panel: Feminist, Social, and Cultural Studies of
Science
and Technology
 
ABOUT KEY SPEAKERS
 
Sandra Harding is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delaware
and
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at UCLA, where she
also
directs the Center for the Study of Women.  She is the author or editor
of
seven books; the latest, Is Science Multicultural?  Postcolonialism,
Feminism
and Epistemology, is due out in 1997.
 
Stephen Doheny-Farina is an Associate Professor of Technical
Communication
at Clarkson University. He is the author of Rhetoric, Innovation,
Technology.
His most recent book, The Wired Neighborhood, is a critical examination
of the
concept of virtual community.
 
Anne Balsamo is Director of the Graduate Program in Information Design
and
Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her first book,
Technologies of
the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women was an exploration of a range of
new
body technologies. She is working on a new book on the body and
technology as
well as doing research on new media forms such as webpublishing and
distance
learning.
 
Langdon Winner is Professor of Political Science in the Department of
Science
and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the
author
of Autonomous Technology, a study of the idea of
"technology-out-of-control"
in modern social thought, The Whale and The Reactor: A Search for Limits
in an
Age of High Technology, and editor of Democracy in a Technological
Society.
 
CALL FOR PAPERS
 
We invite papers for sessions on reconfiguring disciplinarity, feminist,
rhetorical, social, and cultural studies of science, and the "science
wars."
Papers from all disciplines welcome. DEADLINE: April 25, 1997.
send to:
 
Alice Adams
Summer Institute
Department of English
Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio 45056.
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