CFP: Brain Power: Intelligence/Emotion/Cultural Fantasy (11/18/02; 3/6/03-3/8/03)

Hi everyone,

We've extended the deadline for our upcoming conference on on
intelligence, emotion, and cultural fantasy. The call for papers is
below.

Because so many members of this list have been such great presenters at
our previous conferences, we would especially welcome submissions from
the cultural studies folks who post (and lurk) here. If you're working
in an area related to the topic, we'd love to hear from you.

Thanks,

Greg

BRAIN POWER: INTELLIGENCE/EMOTION/CULTURAL FANTASY

The 12th annual KSU CULTURAL STUDIES SYMPOSIUM, March 6-8, 2003

Keynote Speakers: Katherine Hayles and Nancy Kress (see below)

Where's your head at? Cultural critics, philosophers, and scientists
have often sought to explain human intelligence and the emotions.
Theorists have offered provisional definitions of such basic emotions
as shame and love; scientists and philosophers have offered new
theories to explain or "map" thought and feeling in the brain, often
through evolutionary models. In all of this work, the brain is either
included in a wider cultural imaginary or contrasted with it.

For the 12th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium at Kansas State
University, we invite papers that consider how intelligence, reason,
and/or emotion have been located within a cultural imaginary.
Specifically, how have these capacities been located in brains or some
other material object (such as the humours, or computers)? How have
brains themselves become cultural representations of these capacities,
and more? Papers of any disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and historical
periods are welcome, as well as unconventional formats or methods.

Potential Topics

*       Historical transformations of affect
*       Artificial Intelligence
*       Pop culture brains
*       The linguistic turn vs. the new positivism
*       "Structures of Feeling"
*       Cognitive theories of the emotions
*       Sentiment and sympathy
*       Phrenology and galvanism
*       Rationalism vs. empiricism
*       Behavioralist approaches to psychology and the brain
*       Freudian and post-Freudian brains
*       Sociobiology, altruism and emotion
*       The Memento Mori and other mystical traditions
*       Medical philosophies of Galen and other pre-moderns
*       Philosophy of mind

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

KATHERINE HAYLES, professor of English at UCLA and a major figure in
the study of literature and science in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Author of _How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics,
Literature, and Informatics_ (1999) and _The Cosmic Web: Scientific
Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century_ (1984).

NANCY KRESS, celebrated science-fiction writer and winner of two Nebula
awards and one Hugo award. Her science fiction work often explores the
implications of modern biological research in near-future settings.
Perhaps her most famous set of books, the "Beggars" trilogy, speculates
brilliantly on the future consequences of genetic "improvements" in
human intelligence on world society.

See our conference website at
http://www.ksu.edu/english/symposium/index.html

Send 1-page abstracts to:

Michele Janette
Director, Cultural Studies Program
Kansas State University English Department
106 Denison Hall
Manhattan KS, 66506-0701.

Email submissions are encouraged: send to mjanette@xxxxxxxx

Deadline: November 18, 2002.

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Gregory Eiselein | Director of Graduate Studies | Dept of English
Denison Hall | Kansas State University | Manhattan, KS 66506
telephone: 785.532.0386 | fax: 785.532.2192



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