6th Global Conference (2011)

6th Global Conference

Tuesday 12th July 2011 – Thursday 14th July 2011
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

Tuesday 12^th July
From 12.30
Conference Registration

13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Daniel Riha

14:00
Session 1: Post-Human Concepts
Chair: Daniel Riha

Flavia Cioceanu
The Paradox of Existence

Hadas Elber
Visions of Humanity in the Dialectic between Posthuman and Non-Human

Yannick Rumpala
Artificial Intelligences and Political Organization: An Exploration based on the Science Fiction Work of Iain M. Banks

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 2: Gender in Cyberspace
Chair: Kayleigh Newby

Ana Makuc
‘You’re transformed. You’re polluted, stained, dyed, altered. And you’ll never be the same.’ (Pat Cadigan’s Feminist Cyberpunk Fiction and Jessica Benjamin’s Notion of Intersubjectivity)

Prasita Mukherjee
A Graveled Path: Historicizing Feminist Utopias/ Dystopias

Daniel Riha
Retro-Future Societies in Woody Allen´s Sleeper and Oldrich Lipsky´s Man in Outer Space

17:30
Notices and Announcements

17:40
Wine Reception

18:30
Dinner

Wednesday 13^th July
09:00
Session 3: Future Societies, Future Cultures
Chair: Plamena Popova

Jorge Martins Rosa
«Through Other Eyes»: The Other as an Extension of the Self in Post-War Science Fiction

Pam Lock
‘So little time’: The Inhuman Life-span of the Un-human in Science Fiction.

Artur Jorge de Matos Alves
Total Machine or Homelessness: the Tyranny of the Artificial and the Limits of Politics in the Post-Human Era

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: Bodies & Identity
Chair: Adam Ruch

Raquel Botelho
Do we Really Die? Bodies in Cyberculture: Life and Social Existence after Death

Ann-Renee Clark
Cyberspace and Subversion: The Creation of Culture in Steampunk and Body Modification Cyber-Communities

M. Luisa Gómez Martínez
Reconceptualising Space, Place and Body: Tele-presence and Locative Media in Art

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: New Narrativism
Chair: Pam Lock

Dolores Miralles
Quevedo and Góngora Fistfight in Virtual Heaven: Contemporary Spanish Cyber Poetry

Seth Merlo
Shifts: Story as Aesthetic, Transmedia as Practice

Tamara Veselic
Language E-learning – E-Teaching – Using the Cyberspace in a Creative Way

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 6: Literatures of Cyberspace I.
Chair: Dolores Miralles

Chris Bateman
Orthodox Science Fiction and Fictional Worlds

Frances McDonald
Laughing Away The Human: The Threat of Cyber-Laughter in Science Fiction

Petra Rehling and Cindy Squires
Godliness in Tad Williams’s “Otherland” Series

Thursday 14^th July
09:00
Session 7: Literatures of Cyberspace II.
Chair: John Martino

Claire Cornillon
‘The digital body’s mantra’: Man and Machine in Grande Jonction by Maurice G. Dantec

Tania Honey
Cyborgs In The Garden; Tales of Iden in Kage Baker’s Company Series

Laura-Jane Maher
Children of the Fence: The Conflated Self in Claudio Sanchez’ Transmedia Science Fiction “Epic”

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8: Cyberspace and Videogames
Chair: M. Luisa Gómez Martínez

Adam Ruch
A Mass Effect on Intimacy, Romance and Sex

John Martino
No place for “Noobs” – Computer Games and the Militarisation of Youth Culture.

Jose Vallikatt
Born Again: Spirituality of Avatars in the World of Warcraft

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: Sexy Cyberspace
Chair: Tania Honey

Kayleigh Newby
Feet, Silk and Sex: The Not So Secret World of Fetish Online

Erin Stapleton
Cyberotica and Georges Bataille’s General Economy

Rodolfo Rorato Londero
We see Cyborgs differently: A Comparative Study between North American and Latin American Cyberpunk

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 10: Freedom in Cyberspace
Chair: Seth Merlo

Azad Hamad Sharif
The Kurds and the Threat of Cyberpolitics and Cyberterror

Plamena Popova
A Vision of Law: Virtues and Pandorum

Elana Gomel
Posthuman Rights: The Ethics of Alien Encounter

17:30
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks

18:00
Conference Ends