Tuesday 1st July – Thursday 3rd July 2008
Mansfield College, Oxford
Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
project aims to explore what it is to be human and
the nature of human community in cyberculture,
cyberspace and science fiction. In particular, the
project will explore the possibilities offered by
these contexts for creative thinking about persons
and the challenges posed to the nature and future
of national, international, and global communities.Papers, short papers, and workshops are invited on
issues related to any of the following themes:* the relationship between cyberculture,
cyberspace, science fiction and the Machinima
phenomenon
* science fiction and cyberpunk as a medium for
exploring the nature of persons
* humans and cyborgs; the synergy of humans and
technology; changing views of the body
* human and post-human politics; cyborg
citizenship and rights; influence of political
technologies
* bodies in cyberculture; from apes to androids -
electronic evolution; biotechnical advances and
the impact of life, death, and social existence;
the impact on individuality
* gender and cyberspace: new feminisms, new
masculinities
* electronic persons, community and identity;
cyberspace, cybercommunities, virtual worlds, and
home worlds
* nature, enhancing nature, and artificial
intelligence; artificial life, life and
information systems, networked living
* cyberpolitics, cyberdemocracy, cyberterror; old
conflicts, new spaces: elections, protest and war
in cyberspace; nationality and nationalism in
cyberculture; the state and cyberspace: repression
vs. resistance
* cyberpolitics, cybercultures and Serious Games
(Documentary CGs)
* cybercultures: the transnational and the local
* boundaries, frontiers and taboos in cyberculture
* cyberculture and orientalism
* religion and spirituality in cyberculture,
science fiction and cyberpunk
* old messages, new medium: cyberspace and mass
communication
* cyberculture, cyberpunk and the near future:
utopias vs. dystopias
* technology vs. the natural: cyberculture and the
green movement
* the cultures of computer gaming
Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
15th February 2008. If your paper is accepted for
presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft
paper should be submitted by Friday 6th June 2008.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to both
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
author(s), affiliation, email address, title of
abstract, body of abstract
We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
from us in a week you should assume we did
not receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.
Joint Organising Chairs:
Owen Kelly
Arcada University,
Helsinki,
Finland
E-mail:owen.kelly@arcada.fi
Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
E-mail: cyber3@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the ‘At the Interface’
series of research projects run by ID.Net. It aims
to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and challenging.
All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN
eBook. Selected papers will be developed for
publication in a themed hard copy volume.For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/Visions/vhccsf.htmFor further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/Visions/V3/cfp.html
