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>Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 11:34:19 +0200
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (davidnye) (David Nye)
Landscape and Technology
Seminar at Hollufgaard,
Humanities Research Center, Odense University, Denmark
January 10 - 12 1997
During the past thirty years two scholarly discourses have emerged
that each address the complex relations between advanced industrial cultures
and the natural world: landscape studies and work on technology and culture.
Each of these fields is interdisciplinary, drawing to varying degrees
on art, history, literature, geography, anthropology, and the social
sciences.
The two areas of research share many concerns, and this seminar aims
to advance the dialogue between them through a two day international
seminar. It will address such questions as the following:
How have technologies been used to shape or imagine landscapes, for
example at international exhibitions, or in literature, photographs and
paintings? How have technologies been used to transform specific
environments, and what (often unanticipated) changes have resulted?
How have technological innovations been "naturalized," so that they
seem to be in harmony with their surroundings? What are the relationships
between gender, technology, and specific sites? Is it possible to discuss a
landscape without having a concept of a technology that is "appropriate" for
it? How have different cultures adapted the same technologies to different
landscapes?
Conference presentations (c. 30 minutes) are invited in these and
related areas. The deadline for receipt of abstracts and a short c.v. is
September 1, 1996. Decisions on acceptance will be made by October
1 at the latest.
For more conference information, contact David Nye, Humanities
Research Center, Man & Nature, Hollufgaard, Hestehaven 201,
5220 Odense SO, Denmark.
Phone: (+ 45) 65 95 94 93, fax: (+ 45) 65 95 77 66.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The conference is organized by The Humanities Research Center, Man
& Nature in cooperation with the University of Odense and the Embassay of
The United States of America, Copenhagen.
Main speakers for this event include:
Mick Gidley, Professor of American literature, Leeds University,
editor and author of many books, including works on Native Americans,
literature, and photography. He is co-editor of Views of American
Landscapes (Cambridge University Press), and Modern American
Landscapes (Amsterdam Free University Press.)
David Rothenberg, Professor of Philosophy, New Jersey Institute of
Technology, author of Hand's End (California, 1993) and editor of
TERRA NOVA: NATURE & CULTURE. The Literary Magazine of the
New Environmentalism (MIT Press, 1995 - )
David E. Nye, Professor of American History, Odense University, author
of Electrifying America (MIT: 1990), American Technological Sublime
(MIT: 1994) and Consuming Power: A Cultural History of American Energies
(MIT: forthcoming).
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Professor David E. Nye
Center for American Studies
Odense University
55 Campusvej
5230 Odense M
Denmark
During 1996, at the Humanities Research Center fax - (45) 65 95 77
66
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Stefanie S. Rixecker
Centre for Resource Management/
Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University
Canterbury
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (64) (03) 325-2811 x8377
Fax: (64) (03) 325-3841
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