{"id":40420,"date":"2017-04-28T06:08:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T10:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=40420"},"modified":"2017-04-26T18:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T22:57:14","slug":"cyborg-classics-call-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2017\/04\/cyborg-classics-call-papers.html","title":{"rendered":"Cyborg Classics Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote><p>We are pleased to announce a one-day symposium, sponsored by BIRTHA (The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts) to be held at the University of Bristol,\u00a0on <strong>Friday July 7<\/strong><strong><sup>th<\/sup> 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Keynote speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr Kate Devlin (Goldsmiths)<\/li>\n<li>Dr Genevieve Liveley (Bristol)<\/li>\n<li>Dr Rae Muhlstock (NYU)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The aim of the day is to bring together researchers\u00a0from different disciplines \u2013 scholars in Archaeology &amp; Anthropology, Classics, English, History, and Theology as well as in AI, Robotics, Ethics, and Medicine \u2013 to share their\u00a0work on automata, robots, and cyborgs. Ultimately, the aim is an edited volume and the development of further collaborative research projects.<\/p>\n<p>Indicative key provocations include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To what extent do myths and narratives about automata, robots, and cyborgs raise questions that are relevant to contemporary debates concerning robot, cyborg, and AI product innovation?<\/li>\n<li>To what extent, and how, can contemporary debate concerning robot, cyborg, and AI product innovation rescript ancient myths and narratives about automata, robots, and cyborgs.<\/li>\n<li>Can interdisciplinary dialogues between the \u2018soft\u2019 humanities and the \u2018hard\u2019 sciences of robotics and AI be developed? And to what benefit?<\/li>\n<li>How might figures such as Pandora, Pygmalion\u2019s statue, and Talos help inform current polarized debates concerning robot, cyborg, and AI ethics?<\/li>\n<li>What are the predominant narrative scripts and frames that shape the public understanding of robotics and AI? How could these be re-coded?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We invite scholars working\u00a0across the range of Classics and Ancient History (including Classical Reception) and across the Humanities more widely to submit expressions of interest and\/or a title and abstract (of no more than 250 words) to the symposium coordinator, <strong>Silvie Kilgallon (<\/strong><strong><a href=\"mailto:silvie.kilgallon@bristol.ac.uk\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">silvie.kilgallon@bristol.ac.uk<\/a>).<\/strong> PhD students are warmly encouraged to contribute.\u00a0The deadline for receipt of abstracts is<strong> May 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 2017.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoa.org\/archives\/2392\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Stoa Consortium<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce a one-day symposium, sponsored by BIRTHA (The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts) to be held at the University of Bristol,\u00a0on Friday July 7th 2017. 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