<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Submissions close tomorrow! Feb 1, midnight PST (Pacific Standard Time)</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Virginia Barratt (VNS Matrix) and Amy Ireland (Laboria Cubonicks) confirmed as speakers. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><img src="cid:ii_jd2binlj0_161498f0dcca6050" width="484" height="363"><br>​<br></span></div>Call for Papers 4S Sydney - Open Panel #99</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Post-Cyber Feminisms: Mutations in Australian Feminist Technoscience</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Panel Convenors: </span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify">Emma Black, University of Queensland,<a href="http://goog_138455720/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"> </a></font><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify;color:rgb(85,85,85);white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:emmaa.bblack@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">emmaa.bblack@gmail<wbr>.com</a></span><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span class="gmail-m_5091113697391747484gmail-m_4943187639662219737gmail-m_579128822300000716gmail-m_-5991382565371314636gmail-im"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify">Sally Olds, University of Melbourne, </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><a href="mailto:solds@student.unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">solds@student.unime<wbr>lb.edu.au</a> </font><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thao Phan, University of Melbourne, <a href="mailto:thaophan03@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">thaophan03@gmail.co<wbr>m</a></font></div><br style="font-size:12.8px"></span><span class="gmail-m_5091113697391747484gmail-m_4943187639662219737gmail-m_579128822300000716gmail-m_-5991382565371314636gmail-im"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Australia has a rich history of feminist critique and engagement with science and technology. From the VNS Matrix’ Cyberfeminist Manifesto to Laboria Cuboniks’ Xenofeminist Manifesto, Australian feminists have been at the forefront of experimental and radical scholarship and practice. While concepts from cyberfeminism and xenofeminism are now transnational, their uniquely situated histories within genealogies of feminist technoscience warrants further engagement. This open panel invites papers reflecting on Australian feminist technoscience “post-cyber feminism.” What mutations have occurred over time? By mutation, we refer to the transmission, variation and corruption of ideas and approaches to “doing” feminist theory and practice. Mutations call to attention changes in situated material contexts, in this case, the specific material-semiotic assemblages of time/place/people/events we call “Australia.”</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The questions we seek to address include: What are the uniquely Australian histories of feminist technoscience? How do these intersect with other forms of Australian feminisms, such as Aboriginal, postcolonial, queer? How can we think “xeno”-politics in a settler-colonising society? How do seemingly disparate movements in contemporary art, fiction, philosophy, and feminism draw on, respond to, and critically resist Australian cyberfeminism, and how has Australian cyberfeminism mutated in response to these? How have changing political, material, and technological conditions altered the field of cyberfeminism, perhaps necessitating the expanded taxonomy of what Helen Hester recently called “post-cyber feminism”? We seek both traditional conference papers and contributions that loosen or discard the conference paper format altogether: science-fiction, performance art, poetry, philosophy, and all other mutations.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Deadline: </b>Feb 1, 2018, midnight PST</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Submissions:</b> </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https:/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