8th Global Conference
Thursday 18th July – Saturday 20th July 2013
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
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
Thursday 18th July 2013
From 12.30
Conference Registration
13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Daniel Riha
14:00
Session 1: Post-Human Concepts
Chair: Daniel Riha
The Era of Homo Cyborg: Philosophical Aspects of Creating Enhanced »human« Beings
Ivana Greguric
Uncanny Androids: Empathy, Animacy, and Eeriness in Human-Robot Interaction
Josh Redstone
The Technological Singularity and Recursion
Christian Wilk
15:30
Coffee
16:00
Session 2: Future Societies, Future Cultures, Future Bodies
Chair: Adam L. Brackin
Destruction and Deconstruction: New York City (1981-1988): From Science Fiction to Architecture Culture
Joao Richardo Rosmaninho Duarte Silva
Adding Art to Artifice in Cyber Conversations
Barry Natusch
The Fragile Monster or the Resurrection of Humanity: The Cyborg as the Mirrored Representation of Human Physical and Intellectual Desire
Judith Rahn
17:30
Notices and Announcements
17:40
Wine Reception
Friday 19th July 2013
09:00
Session 3: Gender in Cyberspace
Chair: Ivana Greguric
Virtue in the Virtual World—Arab Women and their Social Networking Identity
Alya Al Harthy and Syed Muhammad Taha
Spanish Lesbian Bloggers, An Eight Year Affair
Julia Salmerón
Cyborgs and Consoles: Gender Performativity and the Liberatory Potential of Video Games
Jacqueline Marie Potvin
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Session 4: Class and the ‘Posthumanist’ Consciousness
Chair: Giorgio Borrelli
Posthuman ‘Visions’ and the (Un)seeing of Class
Robert Wilkie
Melancholia and Posthumanist Metaphysics
Kimberly DeFazio
Posthumanist Feminism and the Embodiment of Class
Jennifer Cotter
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 5: New Narrativism
Chair: Cindy Tekobbe
Digital Dramaturgie based on Social Media: Focused on Scripted Web Series
Jeong Beom Shin
Ficto-personal Communication: Defining Relationship Based Communication with Fictional Characters
Adam L. Brackin
Structuring Digital Exhibition Contents in the Multi-touch Environment
Jaroslav Vancat and Daniel Riha
15:30
Coffee
16:00
Session 6: Navigating Boundaries and Taboos in the Digital Frontier
Chair: Robert Wilkie
Boundaries and Taboos in a Self-shooters’ community—Distortion, Sublimification and Body-snatching
Katrin Tiidenberg
‘So Much More Than Something Vulgar’: Social Construction of Breast Enhancement in Second Life
John Carter McKnight
To Beseech the Mods: Democratic Participation in Unequal Spaces
Michael Burnam-Fink
The Attack of the Fake Geek Girl: Negotiating Identities in the Network
Cindy Tekobbe
Saturday 20th July 2013
09:00
Session 7: Visual and Literary Depictions of Post-human Figures
Chair: Judith Rahn
Britney Spears’s ‘Scream and Shout’: Between Rejected Reality and Possible Imaginations
Giorgio Borrelli
A Visual Semiotic Web-text and the Viral Video: Scream and Shout
Raffaella Scelzi
The Prosthetic Paradox—Humanity, Disembodiment and Existential Ideologies in William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy
Elizabeth Hayes
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Session 8: Literatures of Cyberspace
Chair: Petra Rehling
Post Human Longing: Nostalgia as Historical Emotion and Cultural Symptom in Mexican Cyberpunk
Hernán Manuel García
Strange Technology: A Fictocritical Approach to the Figure of the Filipino Cyborg
Maria Michaela Luisa Jacinto Atienza
Post-Cyberpunk Goes East: Challenging the Western Culture in Contemporary Science Fiction
Krzysztof Solarewicz
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Session 9: Cyberspace and Videogames
Chair: Jacqueline Marie Potvin
Metacharacter: a Tool for Analysing Non-prescriptive Narratives
Alex Swaim
Episodic Gaming: Interactive Narrative and Immersive Development
Richard James Wirth
Virtual Trauma and Simulation: Cybernetic Performance in Wafaa Bilal’s Virtual Jihadi
Jenna Ann Altomonte
15:30
Coffee
16:00
Session 10: Cybercultures
Chair: Elizabeth Hayes
Cyber Bullying: Taboos and Cultural Attitudes
Ozgur Erkut Şahin and Seda Gökçe Turan
What lies Beyond the Matrix? The Transmogrification of a Traditional Eastern Technology
Petra Rehling
The Representations of Cyborgs in Science Fiction Film: Vision, the Body, Gender and Technology
Elle-Sandrah Rheeder
18:00
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks
18:30
Conference Ends
Please Note: Only delegates attending the conference are listed in the programme.
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