Science Fiction & Fictions in Science
1 March 2013
An interdisciplinary graduate symposium to be held at Rutgers University, with keynote speaker Rosalind Williams of M.I.T.
This conference will explore the rich collision of fact and fiction that takes place within the concepts and practices of science and technology. Science, our foremost cultural institution of fact-production and fact-determination, nonetheless makes recourse to metaphor, narrative form, and fictional strategies throughout its practices of modelling, experimentation, and explanation. Reciprocally, science fiction’s broad-ranging imagination is balanced by its obsession with materiality, plausibility, and the form of factual discourse.
http://fictioninscience.com/
Abstracts due 11 November 2012