call for papers

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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 14:45:29 GMT + 2:00
From: MR ANDREAS BERTOLDI <128AND at muse.arts.wits.ac.za>
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                      Call for Papers

First Colloquium of the Wits Transdisciplinary Study Group,
            Johannesburg, 1 - 4 September, 1996

              Rapprochements Between Arts and Science
                       in the Information Age

This multidisciplinary colloquium will explore the interrelationship
between modes of perception and representation across the arts-
science divide. In a world increasingly dominated by techno-science,
the traditional divisions between 'hard' and 'soft' sciences and
different forms of rationality supposedly governing the Human, Social
and Natural Sciences, will have to be rethought. Despite widespread
suspicion accompanying the traversal of borders between these
domains, work which seeks to circumvent their separation proliferates.
And the need to focus upon correspondences and "spaces of
interference" (Michel Serres) seems particularly pressing there where
different cultural fields and value systems interact, as in South
Africa; and where, furthermore, new educational directives stress the
importance of technology for the 21st century.

Papers from colleagues with a special interest in topics such as:

  -  the interaction between literary and the scientific culture;
  -  the social position of the scientist, artist or 'humanist';
  -  new configurations in the relation between scientific research,
      the university, state and industry;
  -  changing paradigms in scientific and philosophical or critical
      thought;
  -  the emergence of 'new' sciences (eg. information theory);
  -  knowledge production in the sciences and the arts;
  -  the use of figures, images and narrative forms in science
      (eg. metaphor);

from a philosophical, literary, historical, ethnographic, educational
or Africanist perspective are equally welcome.

Abstracts (500 words) for papers of 30 minutes duration are now
invited and should be sent to reach the organisers c/o,

     COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE
     University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
     Private Bag 3
     PO WITS, 2050
     South Africa
     Fax: (27-11) 716-8030
     E-mail: 128AND at muse.arts.wits.ac.za

by not later than 12 July, 1996.

Andreas Bertoldi
Department of Comparative Literature
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Private Bag 3, WITS 2050
South Africa
Tel: (011) 716-3411
Fax: (011) 716-8030
E-Mail: 128and at muse.arts.wits.ac.za /or
        128aeb at cosmos.wits.ac.za