2 Bourses doctorales pour le colloque 'ʻcreation Of Realityʼ: Towards An Interdisciplinary And Comprehensive Understanding' (Edimbourg)
CRAG INTERNATIONAL CONFLUENCE 2015
Conference Grants:
Thanks to the participation of the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, two French doctoral students/postdoctoral researchers will have their travel expenses and two nights of accommodation covered (up to a limit of 400 € each).
ʻCREATION OF REALITYʼ: TOWARDS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY AND COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING
University of Edinburgh
Thursday 3 December – Saturday 5 December
Call for papers:
Since the second half of the 20th century, ‘creation of reality’ is a compound that has gained exponential momentum in books and other publications (fiction and non-fiction).
The general increase in the human belief that reality is, or can be to differing extents, created by us, is apparent in social processes of empowerment or disempowerment. ‘Creation of reality’ is also a growing scheme within the humanities, in the diverse corrugations of social constructivism. It is also vivid in the science-fictional idea of terraforming or planetary engineering, or in New Age beliefs of supra-agency. Contemporary philosophers of mind touch the ‘creation of reality’ theme through discussions on cognitive enhancement, virtual reality, or contemplative reprogramming, and they explore our cognitive capacities to shape our surroundings beyond our organismic apparatus. And last but not least, in the last five decades, growing environmental consciousness and interest for holistic life-on-earth studies seem to call for the development of an interdisciplinary comprehension (a meta-geobiology?) of Nature (more and more artefactual), and Technoculture (more and more perceived as natural).
This conference and workshop, organized by the Creation of Reality Group, sponsored by the University of Edinburgh researcher-led fund and hosted by the School of Literature, Languages and Cultures, will be the first international Crag Confluence. We warmly invite propositions from all fields: discourse analysis, social epistemology, politics, foucauldian genealogy, environmental studies, philosophy, cognitive sciences, history, education, anthropology, physics, sociology, informatics, cultural studies and the humanities (the list is not exhaustive).
In order to apply, please submit your abstract (500 to 800 words) here: https://easychair.org/account/ signin.cgi?key=22474059.SprbYlzU3w9IeDKx, or, alternatively, send an email to martin.fortier@ens.fr.
Abstracts must be sent by 15 June 2015.
Convenor:
– Luis de Miranda, University of Edinburgh
Keynote speakers include: Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen ; Mioara Mugur Schächter, Université de Reims ; Christopher Beedham, University of St Andrews ; Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge ; Yann Moulier-Boutang, Université de Compiègne ; Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, University of Erfurt