Notices: Conferences, Calls for Papers, Submissions 

Volume 12, Number 2
January, 2002 

Conferences, Calls for Papers, Submissions

• Journal of Media Economics

  The Journal of Media Economics (JME) will publish a special issue in 2003 on "The Transformation of the Publishing Industry." JME invites papers on the book publishing industry; the magazine publishing industry; the scholarly journal publishing industry; and the electronic distribution of book, magazine, or journal content. JME is a peer-reviewed journal published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

  Submission requirements:
  Mail four copies of the paper, double-spaced on 8 1/2" x 11" paper, by July 1, 2002.

  Use APA style.

  Include a 75 word abstract on a separate page.

  Only the article title should appear on the first page. An attached cover page must contain the title, authors' affiliation, mailing address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of all authors.

  Authors must use nonsexist language.

  Only articles written in English will be considered.

  Submission information:
  Albert N. Greco, Guest Editor
  Fordham University Graduate School of Business Administration
  113 West 60th Street
  New York, NY 10023
  angreco@aol.com
  phone: 201-439-1839
  fax: 201-384-7585

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• Modernist Studies Association 4

  MSA4
  Modernist Studies Association Conference
  October 31-November 3, 2002
  Madison, Wisconsin
  

  The fourth annual Modernist Studies Association Conference will be held at the Monona Terrace Convention Center, a building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on the shores of Lake Monona in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the conference will feature plenaries, panels, seminars, poetry readings, and film screenings related to the broadly defined, international, and interdisciplinary study of modernism and modernity.

  Founded in 1999, the Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the late-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The organization seeks through its annual conferences and journal, Modernism/Modernity, to develop an international and interdisciplinary forum to promote exchange among scholars in this revitalized and rapidly expanding field.

  Conference Coordinator: Susan Stanford Friedman
  Conference Administrator: Elizabeth Evans
  English Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Please consult the MSA website for instructions on how to propose seminar topics and panels and for further information about the conference: <http://www.press.jhu.edu/associations/msa/>

  To receive calls for proposals and other information, send your name, address, and email address to Elizabeth Evans, efevans@facstaff.wisc.edu.

  Deadline for Seminar Topic Proposals: February 15, 2002
  Deadline for Panel Proposals: May 1, 2002

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• NECSI International Conference on Complex Systems

  Preliminary Program and Abstract Submission Deadline Extension for the International Conference on Complex Systems
  Nashua, NH (Boston Area) June 9-14, 2002

  Below is a preliminary program for the 4th International Conference on Complex Systems. As you can see from the program, this ICCS, like the previous ones, is an unusual opportunity to discuss advances that contribute to our understanding of complex systems generally. It is also a remarkable opportunity for pedagogy.

  Please note that this is not a final program. Many outstanding abstracts have been received that will become part of the program.

  Because of a delay in the program committee meeting, the ICCS abstract submission deadline has been extended to February 15. After this date, abstracts will be accepted only if space is available in specific sessions.

  Registering to attend the conference without giving a presentation is also still possible.

  Students and postdocs should submit papers about recent advances in their research. Generally, they will be given opportunities to give short talks or, if they prefer, a poster session. We expect to have funds to assist students and postdocs in attending the conference.

  Preliminary Conference Program:

  Additional speakers are still to be assigned to sessions. Session times may still change. Abstracts can still be submitted.

  Sunday, June 9

  9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Pedagogical Sessions
  Greg Chattin: Algorithmic Complexity
  Per Bak: Self-Organization
  Alfred Hubler: Experimental Approaches to Complex Systems

  Evening Reception Session
  Special Memorial and Award Session: Herbert Simon and Claude Shannon

  Monday, June 10

  9:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Emergence
  Ellen Goldberg: Welcome/Emergence
  Rita Colwell: Biocomplexity
  Philip Anderson: Emergence of Complex Systems
  Mitchell Feigenbaum: Universality and the Dynamics of Chaos
  Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals

  2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m. Description and Modeling
  Kathleen Carley: Description and Modeling
  Martin Shubik: Game Theory
  John Sterman: Modeling Social Systems
  John Casti: Agent-Based Modeling
  Seth Lloyd: Networks

  6:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m. High Density Parallel Sessions

  9:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Initial Poster Session

  Tuesday, June 11

  9:00 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
  Edward Lorenz/Irv Epstein: Meteorology and Climate
  Kerry Emanuel: Multiple Scales in Meteorological Prediction
  Dan Schrag: Climate on Different Time Scales

  10:50 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Jim Kaput: Education
  Robert Devaney: Mathematics in Education
  Jerry Sussman: Formalizing Science

  2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Afternoon Parallel Breakout Sessions
  John Symons: Philosophy of Emergence
  Modeling Social Systems
  Spatiotemporal Dynamics
  Additional sessions to be organized

  7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Evening Parallel Breakout Sessions

  Dan Frey: Complexity in Engineering
  Neural Systems
  Management of Human Organizations
  Additional sessions to be organized

  Wednesday, June 12

  9:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. Natural and Engineered Systems
  Ali Minai: Natural and Engineered Systems
  Leon Cooper: Molecular Basis of Vision
  Rodney Brooks: Robots and Beyond
  David Sloan Wilson: Social Minds
  Pattie Maes: Agent Societies

  2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Afternoon Parallel Sessions

  Organizations
  
  Robert Savit: Group Decision Making
  Eve Mitleton-Kelly: Organizational Complexity

  War on Terrorism
  Arts
  Funding
  James J. Anderson: NIH
  Additional sessions to be organized

  6:15 p.m.-7:45 p.m. Banquet

  7:45 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Banquet Session
  Jerome Kagan: The Importance of Context
  Philip Zimbardo: Contextual Behavior

  Thursday, June 13

  9:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. Biocomplexity
  Temple Smith: Biocomplexity
  Chris Johnson: Visualizing Biological Systems
  Brad Smith: NMR Imaging of Biological Dynamics
  Geoffrey West: Scaling in Biology
  Albert-László Barabási: Scale-Free Networks

  2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Afternoon Parallel Breakout Sessions
  Alfred Brandstein: Military Systems
  Psychology
  Defining Complexity

  7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Evening Parallel Breakout Sessions
  Danny Czamanski, Itzhak Beneson: Urban Systems
  Biocomplexity
  Networks

  Friday, June 14

  9:00 a.m.-5:20 p.m. Special Day on Evolution
  
  Gunter Wagner: Evolution
  (Note: Plans for this day-long session are still in preparation)
  Simon Levin: The Ecology and Evolution of Communities
  Charles Goodnight: Evolution of Groups
  Terrence Deacon: Evolution and Mind

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• University of South Carolina 5th Annual Comparative Literature Conference

  13 February 2003
  Columbia, South Carolina, United States

  Keynote Speaker: Slavoj Zizek (Lubjljana)

  Plenary Speakers:
  Julia Kristeva (Paris VII)
  Toril Moi (Duke)
  Kaja Silverman (Berkeley)

  Why do we continue to desire psychoanalysis? What is the nature of that desire? What can psychoanalysis teach us about the social arrangements of our increasingly globalized world, and especially, about the psychic origins of our most pressing social problems (racism, sexism, homophobia, nationalistic violence, terrorism, genocide)? Do psychoanalytic theories have anything to say about the highly dispersed identities of new information technologies?

  Presentations should be broadly interdisciplinary. The conference will end with a roundtable in which we try collectively to pull together the threads of our discussion--and to assess where our desires have led us. We plan to publish selected papers from the conference in a collection of essays with a major university press.

  Please send abstracts of 20-minute papers by 30 September 2002 to:
  Paul Allen Miller, Chair
  Comparative Literature Program
  Humanities Building
  Columbia, SC 29208.

  Sponsored by the University of South Carolina College of Liberal Arts, Program in Comparative Literature, Department of English and associated departments and programs.

  e-mail enquiries: pamiller@sc.edu

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