fyi Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $19; Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 22:01:26 +0000 From: "Casper, Monica J - (mjcasper)" <mjcasper@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU> To: SKAT-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ASANET.ORG Subject: CFP CALL FOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS Deadline: November 5, 2012 Speculative Visions of Race, Technology, Science, & Survival Conference Date: March 15-16, 2013 UC Berkeley * Center for Race & Gender What will survival entail in near and far futures? In light of racialized violence and social control, massive technological innovation, and rapid transformations in science and biomedicine, this conference will engage the imperative to imagine, study, prepare for, and articulate future human life. We are interested in how science and technology shape the material and epistemological boundaries of existence, specifically how and whose existence is valued, policed, corporealized, and corporatized. We will also explore the capacity of embodied subjects to navigate these boundaries in the context of dis/abled, gendered, sex/uality, and queer formations. Recognizing that technology creates kinds of futures (both anticipated and unforeseen), this conference will create a space to analyze how technologies of the past and present contextualize and disclose future realities, and identify opportunities for creating new possibilities. We envision a limited number of presentations in order to allow enough time for generative dialogue and crafting of questions for future research and development. This conference will be multi/interdisciplinary and multimedia. We invite conference abstracts. Examples of conference themes include race in the context of: * gender & sexual transformations and horizons * biotechnological interventions (including reproductive technologies) & genetic justice * environmental transformation & population displacement * Afrofuturisms, Indigenous visions, and alternative futurist metaphysics and spacescapes * de/construction of the human and non-human: cyborgisms, borderlands, assemblage, species relations, alien life * singularities and artificial intelligence * bio-surveillance, fatal inventions, and capitalism * disability/disabled imaginaries * medical experimentation, living laboratories, mission creep * cryogenics, radical life extension, and the politics of medicine, aging, and existence * militarism, occupations, and final frontiers * speculative & science fiction: novels, film, music, performance, etc, e.g. Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Octavia Butler, Sherman Alexie, Samuel Delany, AI, The Brother From Another Planet, Sun Ra, etc. Please send the following to specvisions@gmail.com by November 5, 2012: 1) name & affiliation 2) presentation title and abstract (~500 words) 3) brief bio 4) contact info (address, e-mail, phone, fax) More details: http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/speculative-visions-call ************************************** Monica J. Casper, Ph.D. Department Head, Gender and Women's Studies Professor, Gender and Women's Studies College of Social and Behavioral Sciences University of Arizona 110 GWS, 925 N. Tyndall Avenue PO Box 210438 Tucson, AZ 85721-0438 (520) 626-9158 http://gws.arizona.edu/mjcasper http://www.monicajcasper.com/ http://thefeministwire.com/ http://www.triviavoices.com/ http://nyupress.org/series.aspx?seriesId=75