‘Creation of Reality’: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Comprehensive understanding
Call for papers
CRAG CONFLUENCE 2015
Thursday 3 December – Saturday 5 December 2015
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, U.K.
Convenor: Luis de Miranda, director of the Crag
‘Creation of Reality’: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Comprehensive understanding
guest speakers: see bellow
Since the second half of the 20th century, ‘creation of reality’ is a compound that has gained exponential momentum in books and other publications (fiction and non-fiction).
[frequency of the signifier ‘creation of reality’ in English fiction and non-fiction books from 1850 to 2008]
The general increase in the human belief that reality is, or can be to differing extents, created by us, is apparent in social processes of empowerment or disempowerment. ‘Creation of reality’ is also a growing scheme within the humanities, in the diverse corrugations of social constructivism. It is also vivid in the science-fictional idea of terraforming or planetary engineering, or in New Age beliefs of supra-agency. Contemporary philosophers of mind touch the ‘creation of reality’ theme through discussions on cognitive enhancement, virtual reality, or contemplative reprogramming, and they explore our cognitive capacities to shape our surroundings beyond our organismic apparatus. And last but not least, in the last five decades, growing environmental consciousness and interest for holistic life-on-earth studies seem to call for the development of an interdisciplinary comprehension (a meta-geobiology?) of Nature (more and more artefactual), and Technoculture (more and more perceived as natural).
This conference and workshop, organized by the Creation of Reality Group, sponsored by the University of Edinburgh researcher-led fund and hosted by the School of Literature, Languages and Cultures, will be the first international Crag Confluence. We warmly invite propositions from all fields: discourse analysis, social epistemology, politics, foucauldian genealogy, environmental studies, philosophy, cognitive sciences, history, education, anthropology, physics, sociology, informatics, cultural studies and the humanities (the list is not exhaustive).
THE FIRST CRAG INTERNATIONAL CONFLUENCE 2015
Thursday 3 December – Saturday 5 December 2015
University of Edinburgh
Keynote speakers:
– Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen
– Mioara Mugur Schächter, University of Reims
– Christopher Beedham, University of St Andrews
– Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge
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Submission deadline: before 30 June 2015
Notification: before 15 August 2015
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crag2015
Papers will be 20 minutes long followed by a discussion
The registration for the conference is free.
A performance show will be organised for the participants on Friday evening.
A joint dinner will be organised on Thursday evening.
The location of the conference will be:
The University of Edinburgh
School of literatures, languages and cultures
50 George Square
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures
Contact: Luis de Miranda, director of the Crag
luis.demiranda@ed.ac.uk
Submission Web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crag2015