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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">NOTE: ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://litsciarts.org/slsa11">http://litsciarts.org/slsa11</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">CALL FOR PAPERS--SLSA 2011 </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">PLACE:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Kitchener, Ontario</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">VENUE:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Delta Hotel Kitchener, THEMUSEUM, Critical Media Lab (all within three short city blocks)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">DATES:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> September 22-25, 2011 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">SITE COORDINATOR: Marcel O’Gorman, University of Waterloo <br>
PROGRAM CHAIRS: Melissa Littlefield and Robert Markley, U. of Illinois; Susan Squier, Penn State U. <br>
<b>DUE DATE FOR PANEL, POSTER, AND ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTIONS: May 15, 2011</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">NOTIFICATION FOR ACCEPTANCE OF SUBMISSIONS: June 15, 2011 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">SLSA MEMBERSHIP: Participants in the 2011 conference must be 2011 members of the Society for Literature Science and the Arts. For more information about SLSA,
please visit the organization website at <a href="http://www.litsci.org/">www.litsci.org</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <span class="apple-style-span">PHARMAKON</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The theme for 2011 is “PHARMAKON,” that which can both kill and cure. From Socrates’ hemlock to nuclear radiation, the pharmakon offers an opportunity to explore
the concept of indeterminacy as it applies to a number of research topics, including the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">bioarts</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">critical media theory</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">bioethics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">medical humanities</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">new frontiers in digital media</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">animal studies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">environmentalism and ecological studies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">new directions in rhetoric and writing studies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">the history and philosophy of science</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span> <span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">gender and/in science studies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">PLEASE NOTE: This is an open conference where a wide range of work will be welcome. Proposed topics can represent ANY work in literature and science, history
of science, philosophy of science, science and art, or science studies.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <span class="apple-style-span">Plenary speakers for 2011 are BERNARD STIEGLER (Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation, Author of <i>Technics and Time</i>,
etc.) and ISABELLE STENGERS (Université de Bruxelles, author of <i>Cosmopolitics</i>, etc.).</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">For panel contributions, submit a 250-word abstract with title. Pre-organized panels for consideration can contain an additional summary paragraph along with
proposed session title. Submit proposals and register at <a href="http://www.litsci.org/slsa11/">http://www.litsci.org/slsa11/</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">NEW FOR 2011: Poster Presentations. Poster presentations are traditionally under the purview of scientific conferences. This year, SLSA would like to challenge
the boundaries of the poster presentation as well as provide space for more scientists to get involved with the society. If you would like to present your research in the form of a poster, we will have dedicated space to do so. Presenters will have an opportunity
to discuss their work informally, and they MUST attend the conference for their work to be shown.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">THE “A” IN SLSA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This year’s conference will include, among other interventions, bicycle tours of contemporary public art. For 2011, we are teaming up with THEMUSEUM of Kitchener
and the Contemporary Art Forum of Kitchener + Area (CAFKA). THEMUSEUM will be exhibiting a retrospective of computational art entitled Rethinking Art & Machine (RAM), and CAFKA will be holding its biennial festival of public art, which will provide a larger
context for the conference. The theme for CAFKA 2011 is “survive.resist”. This collaboration is designed to place more emphasis on the “A” in SLSA. To this end, we welcome panel proposals from artists and scholars interested in public art and the theme of
“survive.resist,” in addition to arts-oriented papers and panels on the theme of “PHARMAKON.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We invite proposals from artists for an SLSA exhibition to be held in the Critical Media Lab. Proposals will be considered in the context of the conference
theme of “PHARMAKON.” Please visit the Critical Media Lab web site to better understand the context for this exhibition (<a href="http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/">http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca</a>). Artistic proposals must include a 1-2-page description
that clearly outlines the project and its relationship to “Pharmakon,” as well as technical and space requirements. Artists must also provide up to 5 pages of images and/or a URL to a web site that clearly illustrates the proposed work and/or previous work
that is relevant to the proposal. All submissions and questions should be addressed to Marcel O’Gorman (<a href="mailto:marcel@uwaterloo.ca">marcel@uwaterloo.ca</a>). Participating artists will have full access to all conference activities, and will not have
to pay registration fees or SLSA dues. They will also be eligible for SLSA Travel Awards (see below).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BOOK + ART PANELS: The SLSA Publications Committee is soliciting proposals from published authors, artists, and curators who wish to discuss their RECENT work
in a longer format than a regular panel presentation. The panel will consist of the author/artist/curator and two respondents/commentators. Please send a brief proposal or nomination, and a list of possible respondents/commentators to Ron Broglio (<a href="mailto:Ronald.Broglio@asu.edu">Ronald.Broglio@asu.edu</a>),
who will share it with the rest of the Publications Committee (Elizabeth Wilson and Rob Mitchell).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">TRAVEL AWARDS: SLSA provides a limited number of travel awards for underfunded individuals attending the annual conference. Members of SLSA who present at
the annual conference may apply for travel subventions. An applicant should email name, title of SLSA presentation, an indication of how long one has been a member of SLSA, and any information about funding for the conference to the Executive Director at <a href="mailto:carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu">carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu</a> by
August 1. Please provide estimated travel expenses and the amount of support (if any) anticipated from other sources. If you have received travel support from SLSA in the past, please include information about that support (when and how much). SLSA officers
will review applications and approve funds for as many as our budget permits; preference will be given to students and those most in need. Each person awarded funds will be presented with a check at the conference business meeting. Note: all of the awards
described above are presented during the Business Meeting of the annual fall conference. One may submit only one entry to one of the two essay prize competitions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BRUNS ESSAY PRIZE: The Bruns Graduate Essay Prize, in honor of Edward F. Bruns, is awarded annually to the best essay written by a graduate student member
of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Graduate students wishing to have their essays considered for the $250 prize should submit them by August 1 to N. Katherine Hayles, Department of English, Duke University, via electronic mail to <a href="mailto:katherine.hayles@duke.edu">katherine.hayles@duke.edu</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Please send a copy of your formatted essay as a PDF or Word file, or send a pointer to a URL where the essay is posted. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">SCHACHTERLE ESSAY PRIZE: Lance Schachterle, founding president of the society, established an annual prize of $250 in honor of his parents to recognize the
best new essay on literature and science written in English by a nontenured scholar. Eligible authors wishing to submit essays (published or accepted for publication) should send them prior to August 1 to the Executive Director via electronic mail to <a href="mailto:carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu">carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu</a>.
Please send a copy of your formatted essay as a PDF or Word file, or send a pointer to a URL where the essay is posted. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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