The 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 (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (1.5c)

Tuesday 1st July 2008
from 12.30
Registration

13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Daniel Riha

14.00
Session 1: Technology, Governance, Gender & Distance
Chair: Martin Pogacar

Oksana Cheypesh
Technology, Environment, the Masculine, and the Feminine in Distance Cultures

Yu-Jung Lee
Cyber Governance and Freedom of Expression--The Case of China

Kristin Veel
Surveillance Narratives - from Lack to Overload

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Time & Place
Chair: Daniel Riha

Kiene Brillenburg-Wurth
Transference, Telepathy, Technology: Victorian and Contemporary Mind-Travel

Jason Farman
Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography

Martin Pogacar
MEMONAUTICA: Internet and History

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

18.30
Dinner

Wednesday 2nd July 2008
09.00
Session 3: Avatars, Bodies & Identity
Chair: Kiene Brillenburg-Wurth

Mark Grover
Practical Identity in Cyberspace

Ewan Kirkland
The Interpolated Cyborg: Theorising the Avatar in Haunted Ground

Kristi Scott and Heather Dragoo
The Baroque Body: A Social Commentary on the Role of Body Modification in Scott Westerfield’s Uglies Trilogy

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Merger & Embodiment
Chair: Imre Bard

Lizzy Borst
‘Cyborg art’ as a Critical Sphere of Inquiry into Increasing Corporeal Human-technology Merger

Zeynep Gunduz
Interactive Dance: The Merger Of Media Technologies and the Dancing Body

Daniel White
Consciousness, Embodiment, and Communication: Nietzsche’s Bioinformatics

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Critical Philosophies
Chair: Laura Schuster

IImre Bárd
The Doubtful Chances of Choice

Tamar Sharon
Technoscientific Schizophrenia vs. Technoscientific Paranoia: Subsumption in the Schizoid Double Pull

Axel Vogelsang
Virtual Reality and the Iconic Turn

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: The Literature of Cyberspace
Chair: Zeynep Gunduz

Katherine Harrison
Gender Resistance: Interrogating the ‘Punk’ in Cyberpunk

Carlen Lavigne
“A Bitch, a Butch and a Wild Woman”: Cyberpunk Ecologies in Feminist Fiction

Juan Ignacio Munoz
Architectures of Virtual Trauma in Chilean Cyberpunk: The Dystopian Cathedral of Memory

Maria Poulaki
When Differences become Unimportant: Casshern and the True Social of Cyberpunk

18.00
Sessions End

Thursday 3rd July 2008
09.00
Session 7: Robots, Cyborgs & Replicants
Chair: Lynda Williams

Michael Klein
Beholding the Uncanny: Replicants, Cyborgs and Clones in SF

Laura Schuster
“What does a scanner see?”: Techno-fascination and Unreliability in the Mind-game Film

Melissa de Zwart, David Lindsay
My Self, My Avatar, My Rights? Rights of Avatar Identity and Integrity in Virtual Worlds

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Education, Science & Game Design
Chair: Katherine Harrison

Alex DiGiacinto
Creating the Digital Sandbox? Implications of Spatial Construction in Cyberspace

Peter Ludes
Social Sciences as Multimedia Games

Daniel Riha
Game Design Technology as a Tool for Research and Education in Cultural History

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Character, Community & Anthropology
Chair: Ewan Kirkland

Jordan Copeland
Shared Space: Seeking Real Insights from Virtual Friendships

Leighton Evans
A Phenomenological Analysis of Social Networking

Lynda Williams
Character as Virtual Reality Experiment in Identity

Anna Maj and Michal Derda-Nowakowski
Cyber-communities in Their Quest for Free Culture. User-generated Content Portals in the Anthropological Perspective

16.00
Coffee

16.30
Development Meeting

17.00
Conference Close