5th Global Conference (2010)

5th Global Conference

Sunday 11th July 2010 – Tuesday 13th July 2010
Mansfield College, Oxford

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

Sunday 11th July 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Daniel Riha

14:00
Session 1: Critical Philosophies
Chair: Daniel Riha

Parable of the Prodigal Father: Creation as Criticism in Popular Cyberculture and Science Fiction
Jordan Copeland (USA)

The Mind Body Problem is Science Fiction: Stross and Richard Morgan in Philosophical Review
Benjamin Manktelow (UK)

The “Human Being” in the Network of New Technologies
Andrea Cortés-Boussac (Germany)

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 2: Freedom in Cyberspace
Chair: Tamara Veselic Zlojutro

Avatar: A Tale of Indigenous Survival?
Lola Miralles-Alberola (Spain)

Immersion and Surveillance in Virtual Worlds
George J. Stein (USA)

17:30
Notices and Announcements

17:40
Wine Reception

18:30
Dinner

Monday 12th July
09:00
Session 3: Post-Human Concepts
Chair: George J. Stein

John Scalzi´s Old Man´s War Trilogy: A User´s Guide to Post-Humanity
Fabio Fernandes (Brazil)

From Demon to Redeemer: The Vampire as the New Post-Human Being
Natalia Cherjovsky (USA)

“Human Magic”, “Fairy Technology”: The Place of the Supernatural in the Age of Cyberculture
Anna Bugajska (Poland)

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: New Narrativism
Chair: Ewan Kirkland

Reading with the Body: Interpreting Three Dimensional Media as Narrative
James Barrett (Sweden)

The Flickerman: Creating Narrative as Augmented Reality
Lance Dann (UK)

Making Science-Fiction Personal: Videogames and Inter-Affective Storytellin
Kevin Veale (New Zealand)

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Gender and Cyberspace
Chair: Jordan Copeland

Male Survivors of Sexual Violence in Cyberspace: Stories of Resilience
Jennifer Yeager (UK)

The Ethical Experience in Controversial Videogames
Daniel Riha (Czech Republic)

Heterotopias of Genders in Digital Space
Sophia Damianidou, Konstantina Vasiliki Iakovou and Aikaterini Zygoura (Greece)

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 6: Technology, Community & Anthropology
Chair: Jennifer Yeager

Swarm, Wikinomics and Design: Anthropological Analysis of Knowledge Interfaces
Michal Derda-Nowakowski (Poland)

Mission to Earth: Planetary Proprioception and the Cyber-Sublime
Ksenia Fedorova (Russia)

Intelligent Shoes, Smart Teeth and Lunch with Cyborg: Anthropological Reflections on the Change of Communication Paradigm
Anna Maj (Poland)

17.30
Sessions End

Tuesday 13th July
09:00
Session 7: Literatures of Cyberspace
Chair: Lance Dann

The Cyberpunk Vision of the Urban Condition, Identities and Agencies in Future Cape Town as Rendered Lauren Beuke’s in Moxyland
Irikidzayi Manase (South Africa)

A Loss of Connection: Science in Romanticism and Modern Science Fiction
Susan Rose Nash (USA)

Human Identity and Individuality in the World Of Altered Carbon
Grzegorz Trębicki (Poland)

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8: Future Humans in Contemporary Film and TV Production I.
Chair: Natalia Cherjovsky

“Enemy Metaphors” and the Countdown for Mankind in the American TV Series “Space: Above and Beyond” (1995-1996) and “Battlestar Galactica” (2003-2009)
Petra Rehling (Taiwan)

‘“The Cylons Didn’t Ask What You Want”: Battlestar Galactica and the Anxiety of (Human) Obsolescence’
Kim Middleton and Kelly Meyer (USA)

The Quest for Closure: Re-visioning Humanity in Battlestar Galactica
Dagmara Zając (Poland)

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: Future Humans in Contemporary Film and TV Production II.
Chair: Andrea Cortés-Boussac

Who’s your Savior? The Changing Messiahs of Contemporary Science Fiction Film and TV
Sofia Sjö (Findland)

Endgameshow: Mitchell and Webb’s ‘Remain Indoors’ Sketch Series, Absurdist Comedy, and the Collapse of Meaning in Apocalypse Narratives
Ewan Kirkland (UK)

“We walk Amid Crowds, ride, fly, or fall with the Hero”: Avatars and Posthumanism (via Surrogates, Avatar and Second Life)
Jenna Ng (Sweden)

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks

17:00
Conference Ends