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<div><span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS AND WORKSHOPS</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Neolife</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">The Inaugural (Rest of the World) SLSA Conference </span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Perth Western Australia</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">1-3 October 2015</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Neolife; full of surprises.</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">From the odd to the mundane, new forms of life are emerging in labs, workshops and studios. With the promise of exploitation for health and
wealth we are seeing life as it previously never existed, albeit smothered in hyperbole, rhetoric and speculation. How do cultures such as Indigenous Australia respond to Neolife? On what terms are countries like China, India, Singapore and Japan, who have
a rapidly growing biotech industry embracing or rejecting Neolife? How different it is to the west? Neolife: The Rest of the World SLSA 2015 meeting in Perth, Western Australia will attempt to address these questions from a wide range of approaches.</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Abstracts (max 300 words) accepted from November 1 2014 due 21 March 2015. Topics include:</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• RotW (Rest of the World) Biotech and life science</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• Cultural and literary studies of new life</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• Representations of new life</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• Non-Human biopolitics</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• Non-Human bioethics </span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• Animal studies</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• Cultural teratology</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• Biotech consumer products </span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• Speculative biology in Design/Art/Film/Literature</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• History of (life) science</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• Regenerative biology /Stem Cells (STAP, iPS)</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• Synthetic biology</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">• Biological/biomedical Law</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) in conjunction with SymbioticA welcomes colleagues in the sciences, engineering, technology,
computer science, medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, the arts, and independent scholars and artists. SLSA members share an interest in problems of science and representation, and in the cultural and social dimensions of science, technology, and
medicine.</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">SymbioticA presents the inaugural Rest of the World (RotW) SLSA conference in Perth, Western Australia from 2-5 October 2015. This will be the
first time the conference, will be staged outside of Europe or the United States, presenting an excellent opportunity for SLSA members in Australia, Asia and New Zealand to take part in the conference.</span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"> </span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">2015 represents the 20th anniversary of the public outing of regenerative biology which ushered an ontological crisis and new perspectives into
the ways living bodies have been related to. The last twenty years also seen a shift in (or maybe a return of) the approach of scientists’ attempt to capture the public imagination; public engagement in forms of science on the display and as a spectacle.
This meeting will try to get western and non-western perspectives in relation to life on display as well as life transformed into a raw material to be engineered. </span><br style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">The meeting is planned to take place at the beautiful Crawley campus of The University of Western Australia in Perth. SymbioticA will arrange
a series of workshops and pre-meeting events, as practical and conceptual build up to the main event via the SymbioticA Lab which was established at UWA in 2000.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">PO Box 157 Lismore NSW 2480</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Email: elizabeth.stephens@scu.edu.au</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Phone: +61 2 6626 9331</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Academia page: </span><a href="https://scu-au.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens">https://scu.au.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens</a></div>
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