[Air-L] 7th Annual What is...? Conference-Experience • Univ. of Oregon in Portland

Jeremy Swartz jher at uoregon.edu
Tue Nov 22 23:19:05 PST 2016


 

_UPDATED CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND EXTENDED DEADLINE_: 
DECEMBER 13, 2016! 

WHAT IS LIFE? 
LIFEWORKS • LIFESTYLES • LIFEWORLDS 

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON IN PORTLAND • APRIL 6–8, 2017
 _WHATIS.UOREGON.EDU_ [1] 

The seventh annual "_What is...? _" conference-experience will engage
communication, media, and nature by examining everyday life -- our
lifeworks and lifestyles -- emphasizing the lifeworlds (environments) we
live in. It will investigate how communication/media constitute and
permeate all avenues and forms of life -- from scale, pace, and pattern
to the public, private, and organic. By building bridges through
multidisciplinary networks, the event emphasizes how communication is
instrumental in and for living systems. What is life and how is life
mediated? 

_What is Life? _(2017) builds on last year's conference, _What is Media?
_(2016), expanding a transdisciplinary notion of medium/media with
special attention to its material, historical, and ecological
ramifications. It marks the second collaboration with scholars from the
natural sciences, life sciences, and the arts. 

Featured plenaries will include:
* Douglas Rushkoff, Communication and Economics (_Generation Like_,
FRONTLINE)
* Jussi Parikka, Media Archaeology and Aesthetics (_A Geology of Media_)
* Amnon Buchbinder, Journalism and Science (_Biology of Story_)
* Salma Monani, Environmental Studies (_Ecomedia_)
* Brendan Bohannan, Biology and Ecology
* Toby Miller, Creative Industries and Environmental Studies (_Greening
The Media_)
* Gabriela Martínez, Cinema/Media Studies and Latin American Studies
* Mark Johnson, Cognitive Science and Philosophy (_Metaphors We Live
By_)
* Brook Muller, Architecture and Design (_Ecology and the Architectural
Imagination_)
Keynote address by Fritjof Capra, Complexity and System Sciences
(_Systems View of Life_) 

Papers/presentations already accepted address: the value of human life,
algorithms and e-waste, biodiversity, science journalism/communication,
sustainable design and apps, Chinese rural experience, microbial
ecology, women and work, STS and automation, responsibility and
integrity. _What is Life?_ invites scholars, government and community
officials, industry professionals, alumni and students, as well as
scientists, artists, filmmakers, grassroots community organizations, and
the public to collaborate. We welcome submissions for paper
presentations and panels, roundtables, and art installations. A wide
range of topics and themes can be found under the Call for Proposals at
the conference website (whatis.uoregon.edu). 

SEND 100-150 WORD ABSTRACTS/PROPOSALS BY DECEMBER 13, 2016 TO:
 Janet Wasko * jwasko at uoregon.edu 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Janet Wasko and Jeremy Swartz (University of
Oregon) 

University of Oregon * Eugene, Oregon 97405-1275, USA 

Links:
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[1] http://whatis.uoregon.edu/



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