From: L-Soft list server at St. John's University (1.8c) To: Ian Pitchford Subject: File: "SCI-CULT LOG9710" Date: Saturday, September 26, 1998 11:26 PM ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:09:44 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Valdusek@AOL.COM Subject: Re: SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE Digest - 27 Sep 1997 to 28 Sep 1997 In a message dated 97-09-29 00:19:34 EDT, Olayinka Fadahunsi writes: <> Philosophers of science attempting to give a balanced view of the dispute are Nicholas Jardine in "The Glory and Misery of the Science Wars" in the June '97 of Studies in History and Philosophy of the Sciences and Helen Longino in editorial in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~jrbrown/ISPS.html and myself in the forthcoming October Man and World. Of course these are not journalistic pieces and, unfortunately won't reach the general public, but I'm not sure that popular media want a nuanced view. They love polarization and contrasting personalities. That sort of thing happened in the sociobiology debate which was portrayed as a clash of personalities of EO Wilson (supposedly properly anal objective scientist) and Richard Lewontin (supposedly sloppy and biased Marxist but equally eminent scientist to Wilson). Here is Longino's editorial if you didn't see it. EDITORIAL Alan Sokal's "Transgressing Boundaries" Helen E. Longino, University of Minnesota By now, there can be very few scholars in philosophy of science or history and social studies of science in North America who have not heard of or taken a position on Alan Sokal's attempt to expose what he takes to be the intellectual corruption of cultural studies of science. It may be that there are only a few anywhere. For the benefit of those readers of ISPS who have not been touched by this academic tempest, here is a summary and one editor's opinion. Alan Sokal is a physicist at New York University. He submitted to a journal of cultural studies, Social Text, edited by colleagues of his in other departments at the university, an article allegedly arguing that developments in contemporary physics confirmed claims attributed to scholars in social and cultural studies of science such as that "postmodern science" has abolished the concept of objective reality. Sokal, in weaving together egregious misrepresentations of contemporary physics with quotations from and paraphrases of the likes of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Bruno Latour, Luce Irigaray, as well as ritual recitation of names of feminist scholars like Carolyn Merchant, Evelyn Keller, Sandra Harding, sought to demonstrate that the emperor has no clothes. He certainly showed this of some emperor. The editors of Social Text published his submission without ever getting an opinion from someone who knows anything about physics. They needn't even have sent it to a physicist. Any historian or philosopher of science could have told them the piece was nonsense. Their protestations after the fact (e.g. "From the first, we considered [it] to be a little hokey." Bruce Robbins and Andrew Ross, "Mystery Science Theater", Lingua Franca, July/August 1996, p. 56.) ring hollow. It is pretty clear that they let themselves be taken in by Sokal's hoax. But what did Sokal's prank show? In my view, it certainly showed the editors of Social Text to be either naive or derelict in their editorial duty. The publication of Sokal's deft deployment of a certain form of contemporary jargon to assert the preposterous also shows that the corrupting influence of fashion extends to the academy as much as to the sidewalks. Alas, the response by commentators on both sides of the "science wars" has greatly inflated the stakes. The defenders of Social Text have argued that parody or satire was inappropriate to make the point Sokal wanted to make or that his submission of an article which did not represent his real thoughts is a violation of trust. But this is silly. Would they say the same of the Renaissance humanists who satirized the stodgy scholastics? And what is their view of the strategy of assigning different institutional provenance to submitted papers in order to investigate bias toward elite institutions on the part of editors of science journals? On the other hand, few of the authors quoted in Sokal's piece are philosophers, historians, or social studies scholars of science. And Social Text is not a journal in those fields or even in cultural studies of science, but in cultural studies. Nothing can be inferred about science studies generally from its lapse. In these debates, terms like "the Left", or "feminism", or "social studies of science", get tossed around with little attention either to the heterogeneity they encompass or to the exact nature of the substantive claims they are associated with. Both sides seem not to have noticed that philosophical questions about, for example, scientific laws, are not empirical questions about nature, but questions about the meaning of expressions like "law" in the contexts in which they are used. Inviting a doubter in laws to walk out of one's twenty-first story window is to miss the point entirely, as is the inference (inference?) from such doubt to the non-existence of external reality. Claims de re and de dicto have been so hopelessly conflated by both sides of the science wars that it hardly seems worth trying to sort through the confusions. This kind of episode poses a dilemma for those who, like myself, think significant debates about culture, including science, ought to take place in the public domain. Too often debates that spill into that arena become polarized and venues for display rather than careful thought. If the conferences and symposia organized around the Sokal/Social Text affair serve as occasions to examine critically the full spectrum of views about the role of the sciences in our post-industrial culture, Sokal's prank will have served a good purpose. If they function as stages for the extremist posturing on both sides that obscures the range of approaches, then thoughtful scholarship will have lost again. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 18:43:49 +0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Open Univewrsity Staff Tutor in History of Sc. & Technol. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" THE OPEN UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ARTS STAFF TUTOR IN ARTS (History of Science and Technology) A permanent post for a Staff Tutor in Arts, based in the Open University's South East Region, is available from 1 April 1998 or soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will be based in East Grinstead and will contribute to the academic and administrative work of the Faculty of Arts in the Region. The duties of the post are wide-ranging and demand a high level of flexibility. Applications are invited from those with good academic qualifications and research publications in one of the following disciplines: History of Science and Technology; Philosophy. Strong interest in interdisciplinary studies will also be essential. Previous experience of teaching adult learners and an ability to manage tutorial and counselling staff based in the Region are essential; experience of the Open University system of teaching is highly desirable. Appointment will be made at an appropriate point on the Lecturer Grade A scale: ?16,045-?21,016 or the Lecturer Grade B scale ?21,894-?27,985 according to academic attainment and experience. History of Science and Technology candidates who wish to discuss the departmental aspects of the job are asked to contact Dr Gerrylynn K Roberts (01908 652487). Further particulars and application forms are available from: Mrs Jet Lindop Faculty of Arts The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Telephone: Milton Keynes (01908) 653370 (this is a 24 hour answer phone service) E-mail: arts-recruit@open.ac.uk Closing date for applications: October 24th 1997 __________________________________________ In making a personal reply, please put in Subject line: Message for Bob Young Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk or r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk, 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 14:47:07 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Deborah Taylor-Pearce <70403.3260@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Re: SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE Digest - 27 Sep 1997 to 28 Sep 1997 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In a 29 Sept. 1997 post from Olayinka Fadahunsi: > Where are the scientists who can see the kernel of truth in > some of the science studies criticisms? How about the geologist, Scott L. Montgomery, who recently published the excellent _The Scientific Voice_ (c. 1996)? The book is part of The Guilford Press's "The Conduct of Science Series." -- Deborah Taylor-Pearce 70403.3260@compuserve.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 07:46:20 +0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Philosophy & Literature forum and journal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Philosophy and Literature, the interdisciplinary journal published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, sponsors an electronic-mail list service for philosophers and literary critics, scholars, and theorists. PHIL-LIT offers news, book announcements, calls for papers, contents of journals, and conference plans. Subscribers post queries, trade inside information and advice, preview drafts of articles and reviews, dispute, congratulate, refute, and defend one another. 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Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 10:35:18 +0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Many search engines on one site X-To: psa-public-sphere@sheffield.ac.uk, lwlecs@aol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Single site with 230 search engines, indexed, including Jsearch2, which searches many search engines at once: http://www.merrydew.demon.co.uk/search.htm __________________________________________ In making a personal reply, please put in Subject line: Message for Bob Young Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk or r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk, 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 15:30:32 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Norman Levitt Subject: Current TLS In-Reply-To: <199710161033.GAA13334@u3.farm.idt.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Be sure to see Bricmont/Sokal, "What Is All the Fuss About," in the current (Oct. 17) Times Literary Supplement. NL ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:55:53 +0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Magazines on the Web Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Electronic Newstand - links to over 2000 magazines with web versions. http://www.enews.com/ __________________________________________ In making a personal reply, please put in Subject line: Message for Bob Young Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk or r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk, 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:41:13 -0400 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: "Alondra R. Nelson" Subject: Subject: CFP: Edited Collection - "Race," Technology and Daily Life ( Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Call for Papers "Race," Technology, and Daily Life Edited Collection Much of the STS literature takes as its premise the idea that technology is created by a network of social structures. Although this assumption has produced significant examinations of the intersections of class and/or gender and technology, most of the literature fails to consider "race" as a legitimate and important lens through which to view the history of technology. Highlighting "race" as a category of analysis, this volume will take on a new line of inquiry; it will explore how technology is imbued with meaning through its use by people in their everyday lives. This study defines technology broadly and aims to reveal the complexities of technocultural practices. We are seeking essays that address the intersection of race and technology as it manifests itself in the following areas: Technofetishism toys, mobile technologies (beepers, walkman, cellular phones, palm pilots) Technology and Popular Culture sampling, uses of technology in music production, computer generated imagery, special effects, multimedia art, science fiction Technology and Community Building grassroots organizing, education, local development (Bio)Technology and "raced" body genetics, bioethics We encourage submissions from a variety of analytical perspectives, especially ethnographic approaches. Please send 250-word abstracts by December 1, 1997 to Thuy Linh N. Tu, American Studies Program, New York University, 285 Mercer Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10003; or e-mail tnt4204@is4.nyu.edu. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 12:14:18 +0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: quality assurance of web sites from The Britannica Internet Guide Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" BIG - Britannica Internet Guide quality assurance of web sites from _The Enclopedia Britannica_ One of the best things about the Internet is that it allows _anyone_ to say _anything_ they want on _any_ topic, and these comments can be posted for the entire world to see. For the first time in history, the power of Mr. Gutenberg's little tool of dissemination has been extended to _everyone_. Thanks to the Net, physicists can answer questions from junior high school students, Aunt Martha can share her cherry cobbler recipe with the rest of the world, and bozos like me can take 80,000 people on a virtual tour of cyberspace One of the _WORST_ things about the Internet, however, is that it allows _anyone_ to say _anything_ they want on _any_ topic, and these comments can be posted for the entire world to see. Thanks to the Net, weirdos can distribute stories saying that John Denver was really an alien (he was born in Roswell, New Mexico, after all), Aunt Martha can share her disturbingly bad cherry cobbler recipe with the entire world, and bozos like me can take 80,000 people on a virtual tour of cyberspace. The real problem is that the Net isn't "peered" (in other words, the Net's content is almost never edited or even reviewed by experts). With almost every other resource that comes into your home, business, or classroom, the facts are checked and rechecked, usually by a group of editors or peers. In short, if the content of these non-Net resources isn't the truth with a capital T, it's the next best thing. On the Internet, typically *none* of these safeguards apply. There is nothing stopping me from posting the following information online: 6:00 PM Central Standard Time = Noon Greenwich Mean Time While this mistake might seem minor at first (it is, after all, only off by a mere 12 hours), imagine the consequences if you used this piece of "information" in a school report or business document. One of the most daunting online tasks is sorting through the piles of mis-information on the Net to find those few nuggets of "truth." Most people have neither the time nor the patience to do this for any extended period of time. What the Internet badly needs is a well-respected curator or librarian who is willing to take the time to point the rest of us in the direction of the "truth nuggets." Well, the nice folks at the Encyclopedia Britannica want to be that "nugget-pointer-outer." They have launched a new, _FREE_ (yes, Britannica is actually doing something online for free) service called the "Britannica Internet Guide" which you can find on the Web at http://www.ebig.com/ Now, the "Britannica Internet Guide" ("BIG") is _not_ the online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. That subscription service costs $85 a year (US), and can be found online at http://www.eb.com/ or http://www.britannica.com/ The Britannica Internet Guide (http://www.ebig.com/) is a _free_ guide to the highest "quality" Web sites on the Net. BIG is a lot like Lycos' Point Reviews (http://point.lycos.com/), but BIG only includes pointers to sites that provide highly accurate, reliable information. Britannica's editors reviewed millions of Web sites -- well, they reviewed _LOTS_ of Web sites -- and they only chose to include links to those sites that excelled in the following areas: - Depth, accuracy, completeness, and utility of information; - Quality and effectiveness of presentation; - Credentials and authority of the author or publisher; - Elegance of design and ease of navigation; - Frequency of revision; and - Quality of graphics or multimedia. The few Web sites that exceeded in all of these categories were then rated on the following scale: Noteworthy (0 stars) Recommended (1 star) Exceptional (2 stars) Best of the Web (3 stars) How "strict" was Britannica's review? Well, only 65,000 Web sites met Britannica's standards, and of those 65,000 only 30 or so were rated "Best of the Web." In fact, according to Britannica, about 15% of the sites received a Recommended (1 star) rating and less than one percent were judged to be Exceptional (2 stars). Most of the sites in the Britannica Internet Guide (about 85% of the 65,000, in fact) received a Noteworthy (0 stars) rating. According to Britannica, [t]hese include (a) informational sites which, in the judgment of the editors, will be useful to readers but which have a limited scope or little or no editorial enhancement; (b) works of art and literature, historical documents, and other primary resources; and (c) many official sites for corporations, schools, libraries, newspapers, magazines, and other institutions. Although these sites are not awarded a star in this selective guide, they should still be regarded as valuable sources of information. [all quotes from http://www.ebig.com/Help22.html] So, what does this mean for you and me? Well, BIG is a one-stop place for the absolute best, most reliable information online. There are two ways that we can use BIG. We can use it as a search engine to search for topics that interest us (if BIG does not have anything on the topic that we are looking for, it will automatically ship our search to Alta Vista), or we can manually browse through BIG's 14 categories (much like Yahoo!). BIG's categories are: Art and Literature Business, Economy, and Employment Computers and the Internet Education Health and Medicine History Law, Government, and Politics News and Current Events Philosophy and Religion Science, Technology, and Mathematics Social Science Society and Social Issues Sports and Diversions World Geography and Culture Actually, my comparison of BIG to Yahoo! is intentional. BIG is a lot like Yahoo! with a content filter. While BIG's database of sites is admittedly small, that is only because Britannica's standards are so high. I am upset that they haven't reviewed TOURBUS yet (I figure we deserve at least 6 or 7 stars). Still, if you are conducting research on the Net, or if you are frustrated by the high number of sites that provide questionable information, you really should check out Britannica's Internet Guide at . This may be the one Web site that everyone has been looking for. __________________________________________ In making a personal reply, please put in Subject line: Message for Bob Young Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk or r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk, 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:30:21 MEZ Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Martin Potschka Subject: call for papers TWENTIETH CENTURY EUROPEAN NARRATIVES: TRADITION & INNOVATION Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) Haifa, Israel, 16. - 21. August 1998 Prof. Dr. Ezra Talmor Conference Chair Haifa University, Mount Carmel Haifa, Israel 31905 Tel: +972-3-938. 6445 / Fax: +972-3-902.4402 email: talmore @ post.tau.ac.il Dr. Martin Potschka Workshop Chair Porzellangasse 19-2-9 Vienna, Austria A-1090 Tel. + Fax.: +43-1-317.5713 email: A8421DAG @ helios.edvz.UniVie.ac.at CALL FOR PAPERS workshop: Self-image and popular narrative on science Subject of this workshop are the function, means, context, possibilities and limitations of expert knowledge and its popularization; their respective textual structures; and the self-perception and identity of the scientist contrasted by the image of science as rendered in artistic accounts, the mass media and socio-anthropological studies - today and in historic precedent. These issues shall be surveyed and scrutinized with a plurality of methods and from all conceivable disciplinary angles resulting in a novel interdisciplinary discourse at the discussions of the workshop. Experts of all fields are invited to consider potential relevance of their specialty and what it may contribute to the scope of the workshop. Hence our transactions include but shall not be limited to: -representations of the subject matter in popular press, literary fiction, motion pictures and the fine arts, -popularization as a translation problem and as autonomous discourse, -specific aspects of mass media culture, -continued adult education, -the language game of science fiction, -the sociology of the scientific enterprise, -gender aspects, -tracing the topic throughout history, -intercultural differences in management of knowledge, -authentic testimonies by practicing scientists, in particular by those of prototype "hard" natural sciences. Hence this invitation extends to: comparative literature, linguistics, semiotics, philology, history, philosophy, sociology, psychoanalysis (as generic term), cultural criticism, to educators, journalists and to scientists themselves. Please submit a brief abstract to the workshop chair (Dr. Martin Potschka) now, but no later than January 1998. Your contribution will be reviewed and you will be notified of acceptance. Extended abstracts will be published as part of the ISSEI conference proceedings, selected full length papers that develop from this workshop project will tentatively be published as a special volume of the journal boundary 2. -------------------------------------------------------------- to receive a full program listing all workshops and registration forms contact: Mr. Tsippi Lakser, International Travel and Congress Ltd.; 9 Rothschild Blvd. POB 29313m 61292 Tel Aviv, Israel fax: +972-3-516.0604 email: 100264.2432@compuserve.com http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/ELEG choose: of related interest then: ISSEI 6th International conference please reply to A8421DAG @ helios.edvz.UniVie.ac.at ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 17:22:37 +0100 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: Psychohistory email forum X-To: psa-public-sphere@sheffield.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" PSYCHOHISTORY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM PSYCHOHISTORY is an electronic mailing list intended as a resource for individuals studying or doing research in the field of psychohistory in its broadest perspective. The basic purpose of this list is to serve as a forum for scholarly discussions and as a clearinghouse for the distribution of information via email. A secondary purpose is to support the exploration of group process via observation of and participation in this shared group experience. To subscribe, send a message to: LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Body of message: subscribe psychohistory __________________________________________ In making a personal reply, please put in Subject line: Message for Bob Young Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk or r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk, 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:58:11 +0000 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Robert Maxwell Young Subject: conference on the concept of nature Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: rli@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at (Rosa Luxemburg Institut) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 97 20:19:01 +0100 Dear collegues, in spring you got the CFP for our international symposium on the notion of NATURE in the cultural & natural sciences & in the political discourse, organized by the Austrian Political Science Association (AUPSA) together with the Rosa-Luxemburg-Institute(RLI) in Vienna, and the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, supported by the Austrian UNESCO-Commission and others We are happy that so many of you have sent us very interesting proposals. Thanks to you! You find the actual information about the conference and its programme (with ABSTRACTS, some of them in English) in the WebSite of RLI: http://iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at/~rli There is a short ENGLISH information which is very easyly reached via a link on the top of the front page of the WebSite of RLI and - also in the same place - the total programme with abstracts in German (look for the German link or for "Veranstaltungen"): http://iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at/~rli Here we give you some actual information also: DATE: 14/15 November 1997 VENUE: Institute for Advanced Studies, Stumpergasse 56, 1060 Vienna, Austria CONFERENCE LANGUAGE: mainly German, some contributions in English Inscription (lately until end of October): Gertrud Hafner, IHS, Stumpergasse 56, A-1060 Vienna/Europe, Tel. +43/1/59991-166, =46ax +43/1/59991-171, E-mail: Normal Price: 250,- ATS. For students & personen with low income: 100,- ATS Structure of the symposium: Plenary sessions and five working groups with contributions of speakers from diefferent countries: 1. Different conceptions of "nature" in the natural and social sciences (Convenors: Dr. Margarete Maurer, Univ. of Hannover & RLI, Vienna; Dr. Mathias Weimayr, political researcher, Vienna) 2. The discourse on "nature" in the gender discussion (Convenors: Prof.Dr. Barbara Holland-Cunz, University of Giessen; Dr. Franz Seifert, IHS, Vienna) 3. "Human nature" between supremacy and emancipation (Convenors: Doz.Dr. Otmar Hoell, Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Laxenburg; Prof. Dr. Volkmar Lauber, Senatsinstitut fuer Politikwissenschaft, University of Salzburg) 4. "Nature" in ecological discourses (Convenor: Dr. Guenther Sandner, University of Salzburg). 5. The invention of "nature". Cultural & philosophical constructions of "the natural". Philosophical projections. - Nature & gender. (Convenor: Univ. Doz. Dr. Wolfgang Mueller-Funk, University of Vienna &University of Klagenfurt) =46URTHER INFORMATION: E-mail to IHS, secretary Gertrud Hafner: WWW: http://iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at/~rli GERMAN overview of the programme: =46r, 9.00-9.30 h: Naturbegriff, Wissenschaft und Politik: Eroeffnung= : Begruessung und Einfuehrung (Dr. Sonja Puntscher-Riekmann, OEGPW-Vorsitzende, Univ. Doz. Dr. Otmar Hoell, OEIIP, Mag. Dr. Margarete Maurer, Univ. Hannover und RLI, Wien) =46r, 9.30-10.45 h: Dr. Reiner Grundmann (Soziologe, MPI Koeln): Soziologie und Natur: ein schwieriges Verhaeltnis =46r, 11.00-12.15 h: Prof. Dr. Rainer Zimmermann (Physiker/Philosoph/Mathematiker, Fh Muenchen): Naturbegriff und Selbstreflexion. - Zum Experimentum Mundi aus heutiger Sicht =46r, 12.15-14.15 h: Mittagspause und Zeit f=FCr Selbstorganisation & Entscheidung Nachmittags (14. Nov. 1997, 14.15-17.45 h): Fuenf parallele Arbeitskreise mit zahlreichen Vortragenden aus dem In- und Ausland: Arbeitskreis 1 (Teil I: Fr. 14.11.1997, 14.15-17.45 h): Unterschiedliche Naturkonzeptionen in den 'Natur-' und 'Sozial-'wissenschaften. Wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Dimensionen; Begriffsverstaendnisund aktueller Naturbezug der Laborpraxis (Leitung/Moderation: Dr. Matthias Weimayr, Wien / Mag. Dr. Margarete Maurer, Univ. Hannover und RLI, Wien) Arbeitskreis 2 (Teil I: Fr. 14.11.1997, 14.15-17.45 h): "Natur" in der Biologismus- bzw. Essentialismusdiskussion: Naturkonzeptionen und deren Niederschlag in einzelnen Problem- und Policy-Bereichen, z.B.: Migrationspolitik, Zusammenhang "Natur" und "Geschlecht" (Leitung / Moderation: Univ. Prof. Dr. Barbara Holland-Cunz, Univ. Giessen / Mag. Franz Seifert, IHS Wien) Arbeitskreis 3 (Teil I: Fr. 14.11.1997, 14.15-17.45 h): Zur "inneren Natur" des Menschen und zur Beherrschung / Emanzipation der "inneren Natur" (Leitung/Moderation: Univ. Doz. Dr. Otmar Hoell, OEIIP / Prof. Dr. Volkmar Lauber, Senatsinstitut f=FCr Politikwissenschaft, Univ. Salzburg) Arbeitskreis 4 (Teil I: Fr. 14.11.1997, 14.15-17.45 h): "Natur" in OEkologie-Diskursen. Natur und oekologische Krise im ausgehenden 20. Jahrhundert. - Natur zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik (Leitung/Moderation: Dr. Guenther Sandner, Univ. Salzburg und Wissenschaftsagentur Salzburg) Arbeitskreis 5 (Teil I: Fr. 14.11.1997, 14.15-17.45 h): Die Erfindung der Natur. Kulturelle und philosophische Konstruktionen des Natuerlichen. Philosophische Projektionen. - Natur und Geschlecht. (Leitung/Moderation: Univ. Doz. Dr. Wolfgang Mueller-Funk, Univ. Wien und Univ. Klagenfurt) =46r, 18.00-19.15 h: Hauptvortrag f=FCr alle AKs: Ass.Prof. Dr. Elisabeth List (Philosophin, Universitaet Graz): "Natur ist, was mich leben laesst." Grenzen des Naturbegriffs und seiner Politisierung =46r, 20.00 h: Empfang im Wiener Rathaus (Dr. Michael Haeupl), anschliessend Kulturprogramm: 1-Frau-Kabarett mit Klara Schaerr, Bremen Sa,15.11.1997 9.30-10.45 h: Hauptvortrag fuer alle AKs: Prof. Dr. Burghart Schmidt (Philosoph/Biologe, Akademie fuer angewandte Kunst, Wien, und Universitaet Hannover): Naturpolitik und Aesthetik Sa, 11.00 -17/17.45 h: Fortsetzung der fuenf parallelen Arbeitskreise vom =46reitag mit weiteren Vortragenden/Teil II. Mittagspause 12.15-14.15 h Sa, 17.15/18.15 h: Natur als Politikum: Thesen, Widersprueche, Perspektiven (ReferentInnen, ModeratorInnen, TeilnehmerInnen) VeranstalterIn: Oesterr. Gesellschaft f=FCr Politikwissenschaft, gemeinsam mit: Rosa Luxemburg-Institut & Oesterr. Institut fuer Intern. Politik, Oesterr. UNESCO-Kommission. Mit Unterstuetzung der genannntenOrganistaionen sowie von: IHS, MA 18-Stadtentwicklung & Stadtplanung/Gruppe Wissenschaft, BM fuer Wissenschaft & Verkehr, BM fuer Umwelt, Jugend & Familie, sowie IFK (angefragt). ******************************************************************** =46eminist Studies and Women's Studies - research, information, publishing h= ouse Special focusses: - Technology Assessment, Cultural Studies of Technology - Theory, History, and Social Studies of Science - Women and Development - Education ROSA-LUXEMBURG-INSTITUT (RLI) =46rauenforschung, -bildung, -verlag Arbeitsbereiche: Technik und Naturwissenschaft, "Dritte" Welt, Bildung RLI, Julius-Tandler-PL. 5/24 A- 1090 Wien Austria, Europe Tel/Fax (13-15 h MEZ): +43/1/31 74 929 E-mail: WWW: http://iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at/~rli Traegerverein: Verein fuer Interdisziplinaere Forschung und Praxis, Post Box 12, A-1091 Wie= n Association for Interdisciplinary Research & Praxis ********************************************************************* __________________________________________ In making a personal reply, please put in Subject line: Message for Bob Young Robert Maxwell Young: robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk or r.m.young@sheffield.ac.uk, 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306 fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. Home page and writings: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Process Press publications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:15:52 -0500 Reply-To: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture Sender: Sci-Cult Science-as-Culture From: Axel Thiel Subject: Vienna graffiti-symposion Dear colleagues, >From 21-11-97 to 23-11-97 there will be at Vienna a graffiti-symposion(German language)with key-speakers:GIRTLER(Vienna)SIEGL(Vienna)VITOUCH(Vienna)POKU(Germany)GORSEN(Ge rmany)THIEL(Germany)ERHALT(Vienna)SCHAEFER-WIERY(Vienna)OVERBECK(Vienna) for details contact: Institut for Graffiti-Forschung(Vienna) schaefer.design@magnet.at yours Axel Thiel(coordination) int.work-group on graffiti-research ARCHIVE1@aol.com