SPT Newsletter
Volume 31, Number 1 – Winter 2007
Contents:
1. From the SPT Board
2. Call for contributions
3. Calls for papers
4. Conferences, Workshops, and
Lectures
5. Recent Publications of Interest
6. Membership and Dues
7. SPT Officers
From the
Board
Editorship
of Techne
Call for candidates
The present editor of Techné, Davis Baird, will
retire from his office in the near future. Candidates for this office are
kindly requested to send in their applications (consisting of a letter of
motivation and their resume) to the secretary of the SPT, John Sullins
(preferably by email: john.sullins@sonoma.edu) before
Peter Kroes, president of the SPT
SPT
Election Results
We have successfully completed the elections for the
society's next president as well as one new board member. We received 20 ballots total by the election
deadline of November 30th and I would like to thank everyone that took the time
to vote.
The results are:
President Elect, Diane Michelfelder- 17 for
Board Member, Seven Ove Hansson- 19 for
Congratulations to our new officers and we look
forward to their inspired leadership.
Peter Kroes and Juhn Sullins
Call for Contributions
Humanities and Technology Review (HTR)
Manuscript
Submissions
HTR is an
annual publication of the Humanities and Technology Association. HTR offers a
publication outlet for interdisciplinary articles on a broad range of themes
addressing the interface between the humanities and technology. There are no
page costs for accepted manuscripts. HTR is a refereed journal, and all
decisions will be made by the assessing editors, the editorial advisory board
and the chief editors. Commentaries and responses to individual articles and
reviews are welcome.
Manuscript Submission Guidelines
All manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate and should follow the style
and preparation presented in the Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association (fourth or subsequent edition). Particular attention
should be paid to the citing of references, both in the text and on the
reference page. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum. An abstract will
be required for all accepted papers. With the exception of papers that
have been presented at the Humanities and Technology Association (HTA)
Conference, papers should be prepared for blind review, omitting identifying
information. Manuscript submissions and inquiries should be addressed to:
Frederick
B. Mills, Editor
Humanities and Technology Review
Department of History and
Bowie State University
Book Review Submission
Authors wishing to submit book reviews are urged to write with the above
interdisciplinary framework in mind. Reviews should include the name of the
work reviewed, author of work reviewed, place of publication, publisher, date
of latest publication, number of pages, and cost.
Submission
deadline for the Autumn 2007 edition is
Humanities
and Technology Review
http://www.humanitiesandtechnology.org
Calls for Papers
ECAP’07: European Computing and Philosophy Conference
Fifth European Conference on Computing and
Philosophy (ECAP), to be held on the campus of the University of Twente,
Enschede, The Netherlands. E-CAP is the European conference on Computing and
Philosophy, the European affiliate of the International Association for
Computing and Philosophy (IACAP, president: Luciano Floridi). The conference
will deal with all aspects of the "computational turn" that is
occurring through the interaction of the disciplines of philosophy and
computing. The conference is interdisciplinary: we invite papers from
philosophy, computer science, social science and related disciplines. Keynote
speakers are Jeroen van den Hoven (Delft University of Technology, the
The plenary panel will be on ‘The Future of
Artificial Intelligence. E-CAP 2007 will have eleven tracks, each with one or
more track chairs:
1. Philosophy of Computer Science. Chairs: Amnon Eden,
Raymond Turner
2. Computer-based Learning and Teaching Strategies and
Resources & The Impact of Distance Learning on the Teaching of Philosophy
and Computing. Chairs: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Jules Pieters
3. Biological Information, Artificial Life,
Biocomputation. Chair: Colin Allen,
Pedro Marijuan
4. Philosophy of Information and Information
Technology. Chair: Patrick Allo
5. Ontology. Chair: Lars-Göran Johansson
6. Computational and Post-Computational Approaches
to the Mind. Chair: Susan Stuart
7. Information and Computing Ethics. Chair: Alison
Adam
8. Intersections. Chair: Chris Dobbyn (
9. IT and Globalization. Chairs: May Thorseth, Johnny
Søraker
10.IT, Cultural Diversity and Technoscience Studies.
Chairs: Christina Björkman and Jutta Weber
11.Philosophy and Ethics of Robotics.Chair: Gianmarco
Veruggio
Authors should submit an electronic version of an extended
abstract (total word count approximately 1000 words). The extended abstract submission deadline is
Minds, Bodies, Machines Conference
This
interdisciplinary conference, convened by Birkbeck’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century
Studies,
University of London, in partnership with the Department of English, University of Melbourne, and software developers Constraint Technologies International (CTI), will take place on 6-7 July 2007 at
Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury.
The
two-day conference will explore the relationship between minds, bodies and
machines in the long nineteenth century. Recent research on the
Enlightenment’s frontier technologies has established that era’s preoccupation
with developing machinery that could simulate the cognitive and physiological
processes of human beings. According to some critics, however, these
Promethean ambitions were shelved during the nineteenth century, when the
android as artefact was relocated to the realm of the imagination, where it
became a threatening figure. According to this reading, the android as
scientific project and a figure of possibility only re-emerges in our own era. The
aim of this conference is to test this claim by exploring the continuities and
discontinuities in the imagining of the human/machine interface in the
nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.
The
conference organisers – Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck), Deirdre Coleman (Melbourne) and
Paul Hyland (CTI) – invite proposals for papers that examine the intersection
of minds, bodies and machines during the long nineteenth century. Topics
include: the virtual and the real; technologies of the sublime; evolution and
machines; techniques of communication; technologies of travel; medical
technology; miniaturisation; self-reproduction; and spiritualism.
The
conference programme will include plenary addresses, seminars and
workshops. Confirmed speakers include: Dr Caroline Arscott, Professor Jay Clayton, Professor Steven Connor, Professor Iain McCalman, Professor Peter Otto, Professor Kevin Warwick and Dr Elizabeth Wilson. A selection of papers arising from this
conference will be published in the online journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Abstracts
for papers of 20 minutes, as well as details of expected audio-visual needs,
should be submitted no later than
The Future of Identity in the Information
Society
Third International Summer School, organized
by IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 11.6, in cooperation with FIDIS Network of Excellence
The
increasing diversity of Information Communication Technologies and their equally
diverse range of uses in personal, professional and official capacities raise
challenging questions of identity in a variety of contexts. Each communication
exchange contains an identifier which may, or may not, be intended by the
parties involved. What constitutes an identity, how do new technologies affect
identity, how do we manage identities in a globally networked information
society?
The theme
of this Summer School will be on Identity Management in relation to current and
future technologies in a variety of contexts. IFIP takes a holistic approach to
technology. FIDIS supports interdisciplinary exchange. So participants’
contributions combining technical, social, ethical or legal perspectives are
welcome. Topics of interest include:
All
sessions will start with an introduction by an invited speaker, followed by
parallel workshops in the morning and afternoon. The workshops will consist of
short presentations based on the contributions that have been submitted by the
participants, followed by active discussion. The aim of the Summer School is to
encourage a stimulating discourse between all participants – be they new
researchers or experienced academics. Contributions will be selected based on
an extended abstract review by the Summer School Programme Committee. Accepted
papers will apply an interdisciplinary view or support it and will be published
on the Summer School web site before the event. Selected papers will be
published in proceedings after the Summer School.
Dates and guidelines for submission
Submission
Deadline: 15. March 2007
Notification
of Acceptance: 30. April 2007
Final
paper (up to 10 pages): 30. May 2007
Conferences, Workshops, and Lectures
CEPE 2007
Seventh
International Computer Ethics Conference
The 2007
Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) conference is the seventh in
a series of international conferences that date back to 1997. The 2007
conference will be held over three days on the
re:place 2007 - The Second International
Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 15-18 November 2007
re:place
2007, the Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art,
Science and Technology, will take place in Berlin from 15 - 18 November 2007 as
a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen
der Welt. This conference is a sequel to 'Refresh!', the first in this series,
chaired by Oliver Grau and produced by the Database of Virtual Art, Leonardo,
and Banff New Media Institute, and held at the
re:place
2007 will be an international forum for the presentation and the discussion of
exemplary approaches to the rapport between art, media, science and technology.
With the title, 're:place', we propose a thematic focus on locatedness and the
migration of knowledge and knowledge production in the interdisciplinary
contexts of art, historiography, science and technology.
The
re:place 2007 conference will be devoted to examining the manifold connections
between art, science and technology, connections which have come into view more
sharply through the growing attention to media art and its histories over the
past years. It will address historical contexts and artistic explorations of
new technologies as well as the historical and contemporary research into the
mutual influences between artistic work, scientific research and technological
developments. This research concerns such diverse fields as cybernetics,
artificial intelligence, robotics, nano-technology, and bio-technology, as well
as investigations in the humanities including art history, visual culture,
musicology, comparative literature, media archaeology, media theory, science
studies, and sociology.
The
conference programme will include competitively selected, peer-reviewed
individual papers, panel presentations, poster sessions, as well as a small
number of invited speakers. Several Keynote Lectures, by internationally
renowned, outstanding theoreticians and artists, will deliberate on the central
themes of the conference. The conference will also include dedicated forum
sessions for participants to engage in more open-ended discussion and debate on
relevant issues and questions.
A
dedicated website and online paper submission system is now ready for
submissions. Abstracts of proposals, panel presentations and posters will have to
be submitted in either Text, RTF, Word or PDF formats. (At this stage, only an
abstract is required; the reviews will be done by March 07, full papers are due
in the late summer.)
Please,
access the online submission form at: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/
The
DEADLINE for submissions is
MEPHISTOS conference
April 6-8,