CFP for 38th Annual Humanities and Technology Association Conference

MORALITY AND CREATIVITY IN A TECHNOLOGICAL AGE

SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY, NEWPORT, RI
03 – 06 NOVEMBER 2016

Propsoals due Sept. 15, 2016

The call for papers for the 38th annual Humanities and Technology Association Conference has been extended to Sept. 15, 2016. The main track for this year’s conference will be a continuation of last year’s theme: Morality and Creativity in a Technological Age. Though the pursuit of the good and the beautiful is in some ways timeless, the impact which technology has come to have on contemporary society forces us to confront new moral challenges while presenting us with the opportunity to create works of art that alternately augment and contrast with the world of our machines. The traditional fields of ethics and aesthetics are thus cast in a new light, one which this meeting will continue to explore.

Further tracks for the conference include:

TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL LIFE: topics will deal with questions such as: does technology enable new/destroy old forms of social life; advance/hinder gender equality; raise/diminish standards of living and economic well-being; suggest/force human adaptations to technological environments?

REPRESENTATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: topics will treat the manifold interactions of art and technology; aesthetic and artistic accounts of and reactions to the destruction of old/creation of new technologies

TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION: topics will focus on the broader interface between technology and pedagogy; technology, education, and the classroom

 Please submit an abstract (approximately 250-500 words) by 15 September 2015 to Craig Condella ([email protected]) or Darrell Arnold ([email protected])   and state the track for which you are submitting your paper. Include basic biographical information such as your affiliated institution and your position at this institution. Also indicate whether you will need AV equipment or special accommodations. (Graduate students are welcome.) You can also upload your abstract to the conference webpage at

The Humanities and Technology Association is an interdisciplinary scholarly society that explores the impact of technology on human life from a broad range of perspectives. We welcome papers that investigate the cultural interaction of the humanities, science, engineering, and technology.