Conference Programme and Abstracts
The draft programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Programme

Thursday 11th August
12.00pm-2.00pm
Registration

2.00pm
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher & Christopher Macallister

2.15pm
Keynote Address
The Paradoxical Nature of Online Affairs
Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 1: The Political and Human Geography of Cyberspace
Chair: David Silver

Dominic Williams
At the Interface: The Space of Cyberspace

Mohamed S. Abel Wahab
Cyberspace, Culture and the Local-Global Nexus

Ana Boa-Ventura
Cybercultures: The Transnational and the Local

5.30pm
Session Ends

6.00pm
Wine Reception

Tuesday, 12th August
9.00am
Session 2: Freedom and Cyberspace
Chair: Jill Arnold

Ursula Drees & Martin Bayer
The Future is Now: 9/11, CCTV, and our Brave New World

Jennifer Cypher
Weblogs: A Technological Practice of Freedom

Dena Hurst
Freedom and Power: Cyberdemocracy in the Future Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 3: Identity I: Theorising Humanity
Chair: Christopher Macallister

Marcus Leaning
The Influences of Technology: Understanding how Technology Contributes to Who We Are Online

Robin L. Zebrowski
From DNA to TCP: Humanity and Evolution in Cyberspace

Svante Loven
The Power of Illusion: Virtual Realities and Dystopian Science Fiction

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 4a: The Cyborg I: Evolution and Revolution of the Human Body
Chair: Adrienne Massanari

Cristina Alfonso-Ibanez
Surgically Altered Bodies in the Female Man

Heinrich Deisl
"Your body is your battleground": lust-machines, cyberflesh and man-meat in the film "Tetsuo" (Shinya Tsukamoto; Jap., 1989)

Session 4b: Religion and Spirituality
Chair: Rob Fisher

Debbie Herring
Perichoresis and Praxis in Usenet

Andrew Saunders
Religion and Spirituality in Cyberculture, Science Fiction and Cyberpunk

James McGrath
The Desert of the Real: Christianity, Buddhism and Baudrillard in The Matrix and Popular Culture

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 5a: The Cyborg II: Politics and Representation
Chair: Dominic Williams

Richard M. Benjamin
Terminal Perceptions: Visual Media, Post-Human Identity, and the Paranoid Schizophrenic

Renata Koba
The Cyborg Body Politic: Politics in the Post-Human Age

Carlos Arenas
Cyborg Iconography: Constructing the Image of the Cyborg

Session 5b: New World Orders
Chair: Ana Boa-Ventura

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
Cyberpunks and Empire

Guiliano Bettanin
The Death of Human and the Birth of Post-Human Subjects in Philip K. Dick's Possible Worlds and in William Gibson's Cyberspace

Joshua Raulerson
The Politics of Cyberpunk

5.30pm
Session Ends

Wednesday, 13th August

9.00am
Session 6: Identity II: Constructing Community
Chair: Dena Hurst

Jill Arnold
Women on the Web: Towards a Cyberpsychology of Gender, Identity and Space in the Academic Workplace - a Feminist Review

Yael Rozin
The Socializing Dimension of the Virtual Sphere in Founding a Lesbian Community

Irene Dunn
The Body becomes Paramount: Pro-Ana Groups in Cyberspace

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Concurrent Sessions
Session 7a: Gender, Representation and Cyberspace
Chair: Debbie Herring

Hannah Ovnat
Queering the Hets: Sex, Gender and Sexuality in The Matrix and eXistenZ

Uta Scheer
Gendered (Cy)Borgs: Body Technologies and Sexual Politics in Star Trek

Birgit Pretzsch
The Female Body in Bruce Sterling's Cyberpunk Novel 'Holy Fire'

Session 7b: Visions of the Future: Dreams and Nightmares
Chair: Marcus Leaning

Pawel Frelik
Bound for Transcendence, Bound for Escape – Sub-intelligent Technology and Humanity in Contemporary Science Fiction

Maya Nieto & David de Ugarte
Don't Say it Was a Dream

Sylvie Allouche
Visions of the Human in Greg Egan's Science Fiction

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 8: Commercial and Military Colonisations of Cyberculture
Chair: Joshua Raulerson

David Silver
Cyberculture.mil: a Cautionary Tale for an Emerging Field of Study

Christopher Macallister
The Man Machine at War: Cyber Warriors, Suicide Bombers and the Anti-Cyborg

Adrienne Massanari
Amazon.com and the New Economy: "Work hard. Have fun. Make history. [Make money.]"

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Project Development Meeting

4.30pm
Conference Close